This week marks the 10-year anniversary of the uprising in Libya that ousted long-time leader Moammar Gadhafi. In the years since, the country has been through civil strife, an internationalized proxy war, and the demarcation of territorial boundaries by rival factions. Brookings Foreign Policy experts reflect on the state of the country today and what the United States can do to ease tensions.
Additionally, can a political breakthrough mend a broken Libya? Jeffrey Feltman and Stephanie Turco Williams, former acting UN special representative of the secretary-general and head of the UN Support Mission in Libya, discuss in our series on nonstate armed actors and illicit economies.
When it comes to social media companies, transparency isn’t just nice to have, it serves concrete, tangible public policy interests. Mark MacCarthy discusses the need for specific types of disclosure requirements for social media and how the government can enforce transparency rules.
Right now, more than 13,000 school-district boards—primarily elected by local voters—constitute America’s public-school governance model. How effective are these school boards in addressing the needs of their students? Are they even representative of the students that they serve? Vladimir Kogan, Stéphane Lavertu, and Zachary Peskowitz take a look at the data.
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