Addressing Boston’s housing affordability crisis, preparing the Coast Guard for a new space age, and policy neglect toward Black Americans.
| Has Trump failed Black Americans? President Trump has repeatedly claimed that he has done more for Black Americans than any president since Abraham Lincoln. Rashawn Ray and Keon Gilbert review key issue areas for Black Americans and assess how the Trump administration has handled them. Read more |
| The future of the US Coast Guard is in outer space The world is at the start of a second great space age, one that is turbo-charged by government interests, commercial markets, and the exponentially increasing power of computer processing. Michael Sinclair outlines what the Coast Guard needs to do in order to succeed as an information-age military service and total-domain governance agency in this changing environment. Read more |
| Fixing Greater Boston’s housing crisis starts with legalizing apartments near transit “High housing costs and inadequate supply are not a natural outcome of market forces; they are the result of policy choices.” Sarah Crump, Trevor Mattos, Jenny Schuetz, and Luc Schuster write that too many of Boston’s neighborhoods have used zoning and other regulations to limit new housing development, but easing these restrictions could go a long way toward addressing the affordability crisis in the area. Read more |
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