“Americans should not lament the role they play in the world. The reason the United States has often found itself entangled in Europe, after all, is because what it offers is genuinely attractive to much of the world—and certainly better when compared with any realistic alternative. If Americans learn anything from Russia’s brutalization of Ukraine, it should be that there really are worse things than U.S. hegemony,” argues Robert Kagan.
Whether it’s parental opinions on masking rules, student’s thoughts about remote classes, or teachers sharing digital learning resources, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a flurry of online conversation about education. Lauren Ziegler and Rebecca Winthrop share what they found from their social media data study.
Decades of inaction and underinvestment have multiplied America’s water infrastructure challenges. The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act presents an important opportunity to turn things around, but federal, state, and local leaders cannot simply focus on short-term funding and individual projects in isolation, Joseph Kane and Andy Kricun warn.
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