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Blog Posts

Students, How Do You Get To and From Campus? We Should Have a Say.

Fall 2025

Sylvie Guezeon, PhD Student

Indonesia capital: Jakarta

Is Sinking City Jakarta a Valid Reason to Move Indonesia's Capital City?

Fall 2025

Sinta Isfandiary Ainsyah, Master of Urban and Regional Planning

How Can Leaders Prevent Political Violence?

Fall 2025

Nick Bovee-Gazett, Master of Public Affairs

Back from the Dead (Space): The Case for Cemetery Revitalization

Fall 2025

Natalia Uro-De León, Master of Urban and Regional Planning

Revisiting Minneapolis Cultural District Designation As Community-Based Economic Development Policy - 38th Street THRIVE Strategic Development

Fall 2025

Luna Lman, Master of Urban and Regional Planning

The Origins and Persistence of the Black-White Racial Wealth Gap

Fall 2025

Ernie Jefferson, Master of Public Policy

Eliminating Right to Work: How Bolstering Union Participation Serves Racial Equity and Reparative Justice

Fall 2025

Benjamin Schribman, Master of Urban and Regional Planning

Housing Supply and Gentrification in Climate Havens

Fall 2025

Ann Seigfried, Master of Urban and Regional Planning

Has China Won? The Chinese Challenge to American Primacy by Kishore Mahbubani

Fall 2025

Senghour Sok, Master of Public Policy

Central American migrants, part of a caravan hoping to reach the U.S. border, walk down a road in Tapachula, Chiapas State, Mexico, March 28, 2019. A caravan of about 2,500 Central Americans and Cubans is making its way through Chiapas. Credit: Isabel Mateos/AP

Everyone Who Is Gone is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer

Fall 2025

Paulina Santizo Murua, Master of Human Rights

Minneapolis City Council President Elliot Payne

Interview with Minneapolis City Council President Elliot Payne: The Power of the Legislature in the Era of a Strong-Mayor System

Fall 2025

Willi Lucker, Master of Public Policy

Deepfake Regulation and the Broader AI Dilemma: Balancing Freedom and Responsibility

Deepfake Regulation and the Broader AI Dilemma: Balancing Freedom and Responsibility

Spring 2024

Aison Garcia, International Fellow

Increase R&D Spending on Quantum Technology to Promote AI Innovation

Increase R&D Spending on Quantum Technology to Promote AI Innovation

Spring 2022

Ren Bin Lee Dixon, MPP

The Threat of Election Interference Depends on Us

The Threat of Election Interference Depends on Us

March 16th, 2021

Peter Mayer

Reduction in Labor Force: Mothers of Young Children Harmed by Pandemic

Reduction in Labor Force: Mothers of Young Children Harmed by Pandemic

Original Federal Reserve Article

February 16th, 2021

Joe Rutkiewicz

Raise a Glass to Deregulating the Beer Industry | A Review

Raise a Glass to Deregulating the Beer Industry | A Review

Re-published from The Minnesota Reformer

February 2nd, 2021

Nick Stumo-Langer

Protect the Workers that Feed America

Protect the Workers that Feed America

Re-published from CLA: Human Rights

January 19th, 2021

Hanna Nussair

Education of an Engineer

Education of an Engineer

December 15th, 2020

Adeel Lari

The Need for Sustainable Apparel

The Need for Sustainable Apparel

December 1st, 2020

Elisah VandenBussche

Welcome Back

Welcome Back

November 10th, 2020

Joe Rutkiewicz, Evan Davis, Kyle Malone, & Eric Ryu

A Book Review of "This Blessed Earth" by Ted Genoways

A Book Review of "This Blessed Earth" by Ted Genoways

May 7th, 2020

Nick Atherton

Yes. "Safe and Sanitary" Does Mean Toothbrushes and Soap: A Critical Take on the U.S. Government's Migrant Child Detention Policy

Yes. "Safe and Sanitary" Does Mean Toothbrushes and Soap: A Critical Take on the U.S. Government's Migrant Child Detention Policy

April 21, 2020

Paul Olubayo

Missing the Mark: Target Corporation and the Call for Transparency in Global Supply Chains

Missing the Mark: Target Corporation and the Call for Transparency in Global Supply Chains

April 7, 2020

Amy Dorman

If we're to keep thriving, Minnesota needs immigrants - especially in Greater Minnesota

If we're to keep thriving, Minnesota needs immigrants - especially in Greater Minnesota

Originally published in the Minnesota Reformer

March 24, 2020

Nick Stumo-Langer

Prison gerrymandering' must end

'Prison gerrymandering' must end

Originally published in the Star Tribune Opinion Exchange

March 3, 2020

Cory Georgopoulos

Why gender mainstreaming in city planning is the cure to the street harassment epidemic

Why gender mainstreaming in city planning is the cure to the street harassment epidemic

Originally published in the Star Tribune Opinion Exchange

February 18, 2020

Ania McDonnell

St. Paul won't thrive until it rids itself of one-ways

St. Paul won't thrive until it rids itself of one-ways

Originally published in the Star Tribune Opinion Exchange

February 18, 2020

Alex Webb

Race is central to environmental justice

Race is central to environmental justice

February 4, 2020

Evan Davis

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