By Indermit Gill, Michele RutaAccording to the latest Global Economic Prospects Report, by the end of 2022, the world will be, at best, half-recovered. Perhaps the single most important reason...

By Ryan Hass“America is back,” Joe Biden proclaimed in his first address as president to a global audience. Over the year that followed, the Biden administration delivered a mixed bag in its...

By Sakinatou Djantchiemo, Tamara WhiteLast month, the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative (AGI) released its annual Foresight Africa report, which explores top priorities for the region in the coming year. Among...

Welcome to the fourteenth edition of the Trans-Atlantic Scorecard, a quarterly evaluation of U.S.-European relations produced by Brookings’s Center on the United States and Europe (CUSE). To produce the Scorecard,...

By Adam Looney My recent piece, “Student loan forgiveness is regressive whether measured by income, education or wealth: Why only targeted debt relief policies can reduce injustices in student loans,”...

By Kemal Kirişci, Mine Eder, Mert ArslanalpThe start of 2021 was shocking as mobs attacked the U.S. Capitol, the bastion of American democracy, in an attempt to stop the certification...

By Kelli Bird, Ben Castleman, Brett Fischer, Benjamin T. SkinnerSince the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, community colleges across the country have grappled with substantial enrollment declines. Even with the...

By Harry J. HolzerIt is widely known that the earnings of workers without college degrees have stagnated in recent years and employment rates, especially among men, have strongly declined (Groshen...

By Daphna Bassok, Stephanie Riegg Cellini, Michael Hansen, Douglas N. Harris, Jon Valant, Kenneth K. WongEntering 2022, the world of education policy and practice is at a turning point. The...

By John VillasenorWhen the Covid pandemic started in early 2020, colleges shifted to remote learning out of necessity. With large in-person gatherings in classrooms suddenly off-limits, online instruction was viewed...