Today offers us the opportunity to think about the gaps between American aspirations and reality. One of those gaps is the distance between our national commitment to the ideals of freedom and the brutal reality that the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world. Kristen Broady and Anthony Barr reflect on mass incarceration on Juneteenth.
Did Joe Biden advance his objectives in his first foreign trip as U.S. president? Did he help to mend America’s relationships with allies? Brookings Foreign Policy experts offer their analysis on how the president did and the work that lies ahead.
With the 2022 midterm elections looming in the United States, there is renewed discussion among both major parties on the Latino vote. Gabriel Sanchez compares Latino voting behavior between 2016 and 2020 and discusses the salience of immigration as a core issue for this voting group.
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