Water and Energy: Challenges and Opportunities in the Nexus October 14, 2015
Hosted by the Center for Energy Studies, the Baker Institute conference on “Water and Energy: Challenges and Opportunities…
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Latin America Initiative | Issue Brief
Latin America’s Recent Economic Turmoil Trade and financial shocks have worsened Latin America’s economic prospects in the past year. Latin America — and South…
October 13, 2015 
DOJ to Release 6,000 Prisoners: What You Should Know
Katharine Neill, the Alfred C. Glassell, III Postdoctoral Fellow in Drug Policy, explains what you should know about the…
October 8, 2015 Women and Health: A Policy Perspective October 5, 2015
Are you curious about the future of abortion rights, birth control, prenatal care and postpartum depression treatment in the…
The Tragic Fatalism of Islamic Revivalism
It is time to stop invoking Islamic imagery to explain the misfortunes of the Muslim world, writes research scholar A.Kadir…
October 5, 2015 
Latin America Initiative | Commentary
Anti-corruption Reform in Mexico: What Will It Change? Mexico’s Senate is currently deliberating an amendment to the constitution that aims to eliminate corruption — an endemic…
October 2, 2015 Policing Policy in America October 1, 2015
Are you interested in the recent controversies about the way U.S. and state governments regulate their police forces? Come…
Currency Policy Then and Now: 30th Anniversary of the Plaza Accord October 1, 2015
Thirty years ago, then U.S. Treasury Secretary James A. Baker, III, gathered fellow financial leaders of the world’s five…
Raising Awareness of NTDs
This compilation contains five winning essays from two Baker Institute Center for Health and Biosciences student…
October 1, 2015 
Conference: The U.S. and Mexico — Addressing a Shared Legacy of Neglected Tropical Diseases and Poverty September 30, 2015
Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) are a group of parasitic, viral and bacterial infections that afflict mainly those living…