Parliamentobserver

The last couple of years have witnessed extraordinary spending by the federal government. It has been quite the party. Figure ...

This Is What a Good University President Looks Like

While American higher education often is rightly condemned for being inefficient, non-innovative, and resistant to change, there are exceptions, and ...

The Other Great Debate

As arguments over the true meaning of “conservative” in the American context have intensified, the debate between American theorist and ...

Bin Wei: External nitrogen inputs inhibit plant litter decomposition in an alpine steppe

In this new post, Bin Wei, a Ph.D. student from the Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China, discusses ...

The struggle to govern the world’s oceans

Freedom of navigation on the world’s oceans is a key pillar of the established international order. But in recent decades, ...

TechTank Podcast Episode 40: A conversation with Jessica Brandt and Emerson Brooking on the information wars in the Russian invasion of Ukraine

By Samantha Lai On February 24, Russia invaded Ukraine, instigating the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II. ...

Keesha Middlemass

By Kelly ParsonsKeesha Middlemass is a fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings and associate professor of American Politics and Public ...

Developing an effective data governance framework to deliver African digital potentials