Economic developments in the Indo-Pacific, the January 6 investigation, and the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action.
| Reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action “The country’s half-century experiment with affirmative action failed to persuade a majority of Americans—or even a majority of those whom the policy was intended to benefit—that it was effective and appropriate.” William Galston analyzes public opinion on the court’s ruling. |
| Listen: The legal arguments behind Mike Pence’s January 6 grand jury testimony Back in April, former Vice President Mike Pence testified before a federal grand jury as part of the special counsel’s investigation into the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. With more details available about the legal proceedings, Molly Reynolds, Quinta Jurecic, Mike Stern, and Eric Columbus discuss how these events add to our understanding of the January 6 investigation. |
| Economic developments in the Indo-Pacific China’s practice of economic coercion has raised alarm among policymakers in the United States, South Korea, and Japan. To find out more about economic coercion and how trilateral cooperation can help counter it, Andrew Yeo asks Kristin Vekasi a series of questions. |
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