Beyond 200 nautical miles from the seashore lie the international waters of the high seas global commons covering 45 percent of the Earth’s surface. The time is ripe for a new initiative of great ...

Effectively administering health care programs is a critical element of sound fiscal management for state and local governments. As health care and corrections have emerged in recent years as fiscal ...

In growing metropolitan areas such as New York City, suburbs often experience market pressure that leads to housing cost increases. As mayor of New Rochelle, New York, from 2006 to 2023, Noam Bramson ...

WASHINGTON—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that Roger-Mark De Souza will join the organization as vice president, environment, effective Nov. 19, 2024. In this role, De Souza will help shape ...

Dr. Shantel Hébert-Magee is the Chief Medical Officer of Louisiana Medicaid, and Kolynda Parker is the state’s Medicaid deputy director for program operations and compliance. As part of the leadership ...

Maria Cervania is a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives, representing the state’s 41st district, and serves on the Health House Standing Committee. An epidemiologist by training, ...

More than half a century after its creation, the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP)—which provides federally backed coverage for homeowners and small businesses in 23,000 communities—is failing ...

World leaders and civil society representatives gathering in Baku, Azerbaijan, for their annual climate policy negotiations face a grim challenge: how to stem greenhouse gas emissions and reverse ...

Editor's note: On Nov. 15, 2024, this article was updated to provide more information about natural infrastructure and nature-based solutions. When most people hear "infrastructure," they picture ...

Lately, it seems our major political parties can find little to agree on. Nevertheless, some policies still garner strong bipartisan support, including protecting America’s public safety and wildlife ...

Retirement security depends on individuals saving for their future, but millions of Americans lack access to an employer-provided savings plan that might help them do so. Research shows that workers ...

Several states have begun implementing programs to increase retirement plan coverage. The most common approach involves automatically enrolling workers without a workplace plan in an individual ...