Mapping Food Insecurity in America, Why the Taliban Won, and More

August 18, 2021

Singling out neighborhoods without grocery stores as “food deserts” has failed to produce a successful solution for America’s food insecurity problem. Caroline George and Adie Tomer identify measurement gaps in traditional food access research and lay out a new framework to better understand the country’s evolving food environment.

“The dramatic meltdown of Afghanistan’s army only exposes the rot that had been festering in Kabul’s halls of power for years. No wonder the Afghan population trusted its government so little, and no wonder one Afghan city after another surrendered to the Taliban this week.” Vanda Felbab-Brown explains the underlying conditions that allowed the Taliban to retake Afghanistan so quickly.

Discussion over racial issues has intensified at the local and national level, with critical race theory at the center of many debates. William Galston highlights new public opinion data on how Americans view the nation’s history of racism and discusses what it could mean for policies to improve the standing of racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

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