Reforming the filibuster, how the vaccine divide will drive economic divides, and the tools that power modern police surveillance.
| Data-driven policing’s threat to our constitutional rights “Across the country, the tools that power modern police surveillance contribute to cycles of violence and harassment.” Ángel Díaz explains the dangers of data-driven policing and argues that, at a minimum, it is time to scrap reliance on predictive policing technologies and gang databases that disproportionately target communities of color. Read more |
| The vaccine divide will drive even worse economic divides As unvaccinated communities resist safety precautions, their lagging economies could fall further behind faster-recovering communities that have more stringent precautions and higher immunization rates. This dynamic will likely serve to exacerbate the polarization of American society and stoke red county resentments of better-off, healthier blue county citizens, write Mark Muro and John Austin. Read more |
| Filibuster reform is coming—here’s how Though the Senate filibuster is a major obstacle to reform, it can be modified to pass critical legislation. In their new report, Mel Barnes, Norman Eisen, Jeffrey Mandell, and Norman Ornstein discuss the history of the cloture rule and ways to change it. Read more |
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