By Marshall Burke, Anne Driscoll, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon A satellite image from 2015 depicts a salt-affected water catchment area in drought-struck farmland in Australia, November 26, 2015. (REUTERS/David Gray)...

By Mike H. M. Teodorescu, Nailya Ordabayeva, Marios Kokkodis, Abhishek Unnam, Varun Aggarwal Abstract Firms routinely utilize natural language processing combined with other machine learning (ML) tools to assess prospective...

By Cameron F. Kerry After almost four years of effort and in a highly polarized political environment, any bipartisan agreement is a huge deal. That’s why the June 3, 2022...

By Rachel SachsOn Wednesday, June 15, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions advanced its version of the must-pass Food and Drug Administration (FDA) user fee reauthorization bill. Previously, I had reviewed several...

By Henry J. AaronOn May 13, 2019, Washington state’s governor, Jay Inslee, signed SHB 1087 establishing WA Cares, a state-level program to provide qualifying Washington residents up to $36,500 to...

How does human capital impact America’s national security? In the face of unprecedented competition from China, more than four dozen former national security leaders wrote to Congress this spring urging...

By David Sengeh, Rebecca WinthropEvery single day, the challenges of global education become more daunting and more urgent. Just a few days ago on June 21, the United Nations reported...

By Rebecca Winthrop, David SengehToday, the topic of education system transformation is front of mind for many leaders. Ministers of education around the world are seeking to build back better...

By Sarah A. Cordes, Christopher Rick, Amy Ellen SchwartzSchool buses are critical, though underappreciated, components of our school infrastructure. Nationally, over half of the nation’s 49.5 million K-12 students use...

By Rachael Katz, Helen Shwe Hadani As we reach a new stage of the pandemic, many families are seeing the light at the end of a very long tunnel. Masks...