"Last night the American people were treated to the strangest debate in history. As a measure of just how strange it was, in the days to follow the question will be not who won the debate, or how it helped the race. The question will be, should there be another debate?" Elaine Kamarck discusses the chaos of the first presidential debate and what might come next.
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Quality of life for the U.S. middle class is diminishing. Drawing from A New Contract with the Middle Class, Hannah Van Drie and Richard Reeves outline policy solutions to improve the lives and livelihoods of middle-class Americans across five key dimensions—money, time, relationships, health, and respect.
Though climate change threatens all people, creatures, places, and systems on the planet, not all of its impacts are distributed equally. Black and brown people will bear the brunt of climate change's effects. Christina Kwauk, Marinel Ubaldo, and Justin Worland discuss global environmental justice issues in the latest episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast.
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