The Kremlin’s response to the Pandora Papers highlights important facets of its evolving information strategy, which includes using Western alt-media outlets and influencers as a vector for peddling conspiracy theories that cast doubt on official versions of political events. This strategy works to deflect blame and depress trust in institutions within target societies, explains Jessica Brandt.
Students of color—particularly Black and Latino students—face persistent inequities in school discipline. One approach to decrease the use of exclusionary school discipline for students of color is to match students to teachers of the same ethnoracial group. Travis Bristol, Matthew Shirrell, and Tolani Britton discuss their study with data from New York City public schools to see if this approach made a real difference.
“If we’re going to use the tax code to nudge rich people to invest in poor neighborhoods, we need stronger guardrails to direct money to intended destinations and more aggressive oversight—yes, from the Treasury Department and the IRS—to counter the legions of well-paid loophole finders,” argues David Wessel in his latest op-ed.
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