GPS location tracking, dating sites, Airbnb bookings, and other forms of digital information have allowed U.S. authorities to easily identify and track down those who rioted at the Capitol on January 6. Darrell West explores how technology helped to enable both insurrection and legal accountability.
English Learners (EL) are the fastest-growing group in the U.S. student body and make up 10% of all students. Diana Quintero and Mike Hansen explore the economic segregation of EL students nationwide and its relationship with EL students’ academic outcomes.
America’s image as the shining city on the hill may be muddled, but George Ingram writes that rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, elevating diplomacy, and committing to the SDGs are a few of the ways that the Biden administration can reassert U.S. leadership on the global stage.
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