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An inmate sentenced to ten months rakes leaves in Bastoy Prison in Horten, Norway on April 11, 2011.

How Norway's Prisons Have Weathered a Pandemic

by Ted Alcorn

Its famously progressive correctional system is anomalous, but still has lessons for other countries

Governance

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko speaks at an event in Minsk, Belarus, September 17, 2020.

Leading by Example: COVID-19 Infections at the Highest Levels of Government

by Priyanka Sethy, Samantha Kiernan

U.S. school systems are stuck between two bad choices. A classroom chair rests between two dismantled water fountains at Edmondson Westside High School in Baltimore, Maryland, on April 28, 2020. The photo shows a red chair in a beige-colorored hallway where two porticos feature white porcelain basins now dry for the pandemic. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Environment

The Kids Are (Not) Alright

by Kevin O’Rourke, Katherine Leach-Kemon, Theo Vos

Analyzing the evidence against—and in support of—reopening schools during COVID-19