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Policy Models in Pandemic
The Coronavirus and Innovation
by Scott E. Page
...that it instills optimism that our current efforts to confront this tragic and difficult challenge will do more than combat the virus now and teach us how to combat future...
Making Communications Research Matter
What If? Confessions of a Sceptical Activist
by M.I. Franklin
...interdependent. Pessimism and optimism, idealism and pragmatism are arrayed along the one spectrum and so can be rearranged in that they emanate from, and address a singular social reality that...
Border Battles
The United States and Mexico: Prospects for a Bilateral Migration Policy
by Marc R. Rosenblum
...some reasons for optimism here as well. Bipartisan legislation passed by the US Senate in May, 2006 would offer Mexicans significant new immigration benefits—legalization for millions of undocumented immigrants, a...
Understanding Katrina
Cities under Siege: Katrina and the Politics of Metropolitan America
by Stephen Graham
...are slowly revealed, however, to even begin to imagine how such transformations might be possible entails a very powerful degree of optimism indeed. But, here, at least, history offers some...
Understanding Katrina
Un/natural Disasters, Here and There
by Stephen Jackson
...September 7, 2005. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07 /national/nationalspecial/07barbara.html?incamp=article_popular, encourage optimism that the political understanding, will or attention is there to undertake the long term work of building capacity to resist future disaster in...
Insights
The SSRC and the Development of Large-Scale Macroeconometric Models
by Juan Acosta and Erich Pinzón-Fuchs
“Maintaining economic prosperity and superiority, however, would prove to be a difficult challenge.” After World War II, the United States was filled by an unprecedented optimism about the country’s prospects....
From Our Fellows
Piracy and the Narrative of Recognition: The View from Somaliland
by Jatin Dua
...by this unbridled optimism, I asked Abdi, “What if nothing changes once you become a state?” Without a pause he replied, “In that case my friend, maybe then I would...
From Our Fellows
An Afghan-American Perspective from the Ground Up
by Wazhmah Osman
...Afghanistan. When the Taliban briefly retreated after 9/11, there was a moment of optimism here. Afghans were encouraged by the international community’s renewed interest in Afghanistan. But that hope was...
From Our Fellows
Chile’s Reconstruction: “Not The Reality They Show On TV”
by Marian E. Schlotterbeck
...demand their voices be respected in the reconstruction process. Cristián expresses optimism that this dynamic grassroots organizing response will produce results. “The only way to have strength is to unite...