Controlled Substances: Federal Policies and Enforcement
Fellow Katharine Neill Harris testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee on the failed war on drugs and solutions…
March 11, 2021 5508 Results
Does Life in a Low-income Neighborhood Lead to Poor Health and Well-being for Residents?
"Although there is evidence that living in a low-income neighborhood can have negative health impacts, resident and…
March 9, 2021 
Houston Flooding 3.5 Years After Harvey
Jim Blackburn, co-director of Rice’s SSPEED Center and a Baker Institute Rice faculty scholar, examines what the city of…
March 2, 2021 
Relaunching U.S.-Mexico Relations: The Challenges Ahead
What are Mexico's prospects for immigration, trade and more, after President Andrés Manuel López Obrador's virtual meeting…
March 2, 2021 
International Cooperation & Space Exploration
The space station is an outstanding model for international cooperation by the world's nations. Similarly, cooperation can…
March 1, 2021 
Comparing the Three Available COVID-19 Vaccines
Health policy experts Kirstin Matthews and Rekha Lakshmanan compare the three COVID-19 vaccines now available from Pfizer…
March 1, 2021 
Anti-science Kills: From Soviet Embrace of Pseudoscience to Accelerated Attacks on U.S. Biomedicine
Vaccines and other biomedical advances will not be sufficient to halt COVID-19, unless we simultaneously counter anti…
February 28, 2021 Roundtable Dialogue: China’s Energy Supply and Demand in the 2020s February 26, 2021
At this member-exclusive webinar, Gabriel Collins, Baker Botts Fellow in Energy & Environmental Regulatory Affairs at the…
Rethinking Human Embryo Research Policies
It now seems technically feasible to culture human embryos beyond the “fourteen‐day limit,” which has the potential to…
February 26, 2021 
The Macroeconomic Scars of the Pandemic
In this brief, public finance fellow Jorge Barro explains some of the long-term economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic…
February 25, 2021