America’s working parents are under more pressure to juggle work, childcare, and household responsibilities—and most of the burden has fallen on women. Sharing ideas from A New Contract with the Middle Class, Pulcherie Bekono, Morgan Welch, and Hannah Van Drie describe how policies like universal pre-K and mid-career sabbaticals can help ease the time squeeze facing working parents.
Though much of the public discourse around learning loss has focused on K-12, there are reasons to be worried about college students as well. Stephanie Riegg Cellini discusses preparedness, GPAs, course completion rates, and overall learning among postsecondary students forced to transition to online coursework.
“[A medium-footprint strategy] offers only incremental and incomplete solutions to the political problems underlying extremist violence. It also necessitates tradeoffs with other priorities, such as competing with China, and is politically vulnerable because of its association with long, frustrating wars. Yet the experience of the past two decades suggests that the medium-footprint strategy is still the best of bad options available to the United States,” argue Hal Brands and Michael O’Hanlon.
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