The US Diversity Boom, International Coordination on Medical Goods, and More

July 2, 2020

The mostly white baby boomer culture that defined the last half of the 20th century is giving way to a more diverse America. William Frey breaks down new census estimates which suggest that the 2010 to 2020 decade will be the first in the nation’s history in which the white population declined in numbers.

This week, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that it had purchased nearly the entire supply of Remdesivir—an experimental COVID-19 drug treatment—leaving little for other countries. In an excerpt from Reopening the World, Geoffrey Gertz stresses the importance of international cooperation on the distribution of key medical supplies during the pandemic.

If Americans are serious about addressing the role that anti-Black bias plays in the U.S. education system, efforts to reduce the biases of individual teachers, though very important, are not enough. Francis Pearman writes that to weed out anti-Black bias, the country needs targeted policies toward whole communities designed to counter the full spectrum of insidious, discretionary tendencies that devalue Black life.

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