Reorienting US Policy on the Israel-Palestine Conflict, Better Economic Opportunities for Americans, and More

December 21, 2020

The current situation between Israel and Palestine is not stable, and the United States has an important role to play to improve the situation for both sides, while creating more favorable conditions for future negotiations. Tamara Cofman Wittes outlines a proposal for a new U.S. policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rooted in an imperative to take tangible steps, both on the ground and diplomatically.

Both Democrats and Republicans can agree that America is failing to provide economic opportunity to all its citizens. To help change the paradigm, Richard Reeves calls on Joe Biden to bring back a key weapon in the “war on poverty” from the 1960s: the Office of Economic Opportunity.

For generations, the presumptive American real estate consumer has been a middle-class white family. A new series of research briefs from Christopher Coes, Jennifer Vey, Tracy Hadden Loh, and their co-authors demonstrate why it’s time for the industry to reset.

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