A new wave of COVID-19 cases is hitting parts of America's Sun Belt, a region which had not felt much impact during the pandemic's early months. In an updated analysis, William Frey charts the spread of the virus into U.S. counties that are less racially diverse, have more middle-income residents, and lean Republican.
Despite the fact that education was recognized as a universal human right 70 years ago, over 250 million young people are not in school. Disproportionate among them are children with disabilities, those in deep poverty, girls, ethnic and linguistic minorities, LGBTQ youth, refugees, and migrants. Christopher Thomas offers three ideas to make our schools and societies more inclusive.
The Trump administration recently acknowledged the possibility that the 2010 New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) could be extended, but "only under select circumstances." Steven Pifer writes that the conditions will all but ensure that the United States does not extend the treaty.
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