Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Marijuana Decriminalization in the Caribbean Governments of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) have called for a discussion on the decriminalization of…
August 15, 2014 3335 Results
Marijuana Legalization and Decriminalization: A Paradigm Shift in Federal Policy
Marijuana decriminalization and legalization have gone past being a trend and are settling in as federal policy, writes…
August 15, 2014 
Latin America Initiative | Commentary
The Challenges of Municipal Solid Waste Management in Latin America Achieving the decentralization of citizen responsibility is the biggest challenge not only in waste management but also in…
August 13, 2014 
Hillary Clinton on Obama’s Foreign Policy: What’s So Bad About “Don’t Do Stupid Stuff”
Fellow Joe Barnes looks at the kerfuffle arising from former secretary of state Hillary Clinton’s critical — much-publicized…
August 13, 2014 Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Institutional Democracy and Social Conflicts in Peru Economic growth in recent years has not translated to improvements in the quality of life for most Peruvians. On the…
August 13, 2014 
Explaining Dimensions of State-Level Punitiveness in the United States: The Roles of Social, Economic, and Cultural Factors
States with large African-American populations are more likely to have harsher incarceration practices, worse conditions of…
August 13, 2014 Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Sowing the Future: Food Security in Latin America’s Growing Cities In Latin America and the Caribbean, rural to urban migration over the past few decades has led to an important demographic…
August 6, 2014 
Reforming Citizenship in China
After more than five decades, China's central government is modernizing, standardizing and regulating the Hukou system of…
July 31, 2014 Central America’s Unaccompanied Minors: Shared Problem, Shared Solution
Nearly 50,000 unaccompanied minors from Central America and Mexico have poured across the United States’ border with Mexico…
July 31, 2014 
Dynamic Analysis of the Tax Reform Act of 2014
Public finance fellow John Diamond analyzed the proposed Tax Reform Act of 2014 in testimony before the House Subcommittee…
July 30, 2014