Relief from continued stimulus payments and the expanded child tax credit will go a long way to help Black, Native American, and Latinx children in poverty, but policies must also prioritize the dismantling of structural racism and bias that underlie the need for investment in the first place. Lisa Gennetian and Hirokazu Yoshikawa highlight four key areas for economic and anti-racist reform.
“The chaos and fragmentation of the Arab Spring and its aftermath made it unlikely that Palestinians would receive much attention from their Arab neighbors.” Shadi Hamid discusses what the Gaza crisis means for Arab leaders in the Gulf, including those who have made their own peace with Israel.
The American public overwhelmingly supports greater infrastructure investment even if it means increasing some taxes, and President Biden has taken political courage to outline a way to pay for it now rather than passing the tab off to future generations. Aaron Klein writes that there are many ways to pay for infrastructure—the question is whether the current Republican Party will go along.
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