Every day, Americans face the harsh reality of soaring prescription drug prices. A provision within the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) related to Medicare price negotiations offers hope for change. By allowing Medicare to negotiate prices for high-cost medications, this provision overturns previous restrictions, potentially reducing costs for millions of beneficiaries.

Under Thriving Texas Families, a program designed to reduce the number of abortions and “promote childbirth” by providing support to pregnant women, subcontractors instead used state money to finance unrelated business ventures like opening smoke shops and building new facilities. Pregnant people and their families would be better served by redirecting this funding toward programs that improve access to family planning services, maternal & pregnancy care, food & housing secur

What started as contention between leaders over natural resources quickly transformed into skirmishes on international waters, and has now reached a climax with the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro earlier this year. Recent developments in Venezuela present the need for several interrelated policy recommendations: the creation of legal rules surrounding international intervention, a return to multilateral international frameworks, and the cessation of harmful ne

Global AI has sparked debates over innovation, especially regarding whether AI is a state or federal issue. However, these debates largely overlook the ethical concerns associated with AI innovation. More recently, the executive branch has increased its involvement in AI policy through executive orders, notably through the introduction of the Genesis Mission this past year, which will create an Artificial Intelligence database to be used by the Department of Energy to build a

In 2013, the Constitutional Tribunal of the Dominican Republic issued Judgement TC/0168/13, which retroactively reinterpreted the country’s nationality law to exclude individuals born in the DR to parents considered “in transit.” The ruling took away citizenship from tens of thousands of Dominicans. This acts as a broader warning for international human rights systems: when citizenship becomes conditional, and documentation is weaponized, entire populations can be considered

President Donald Trump launched a series of airstrikes as warnings for the ISIS militants to “stop the slaughtering of Christians.” With only enough funding to sustain its operations in Nigeria through the end of 2025, though, further cutbacks, or even the complete shuttering of WFP aid in this region, appear imminent in 2026. If that happens, Nigerians will be left vulnerable not only to ongoing localized violence and resulting U.S. airstrikes, but also to the rising threat