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The Cherokee Nation is being awarded $200,000 by the U.S. Department of Transportation through the Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund.

European politics have been hobbled by a complex trilemma of the green transition, social justice, and democracy. Rather than approaching this puzzle in terms of trade-offs, European governments should employ open forms of democratic engagement to cultivate positive linkages.

Richard Youngs is a senior fellow in the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program, based at Carnegie Europe. He works on EU foreign policy and on issues of international democracy.

In a year dominated by the rhetoric of defending democracy, EU democracy support policies were adjusted in important ways to align with the new geopolitical context. However, the union also seemed to treat commitments in this area as second-order priorities compared to security.

From the column: "The dirty little secret in Washington is that almost all legislation needs at least bipartisanship to pass — and even significant legislation often sails through unimpeded."

Last year’s democratic wins could have big implications.

Download logoUN Women Ethiopia in collaboration with the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission has organized a National Conference under the theme “Women’s

President Donald Trump’s proposed budget for fiscal year (FY) 2021 proposes to significantly reduce the size and reach of the federal bureaucracy by focusing federal activities on constitutional priorities and empowering state and local governments to address other issues closer to the people. Such reforms would have put the budget on track to balance, before exceptional measures to respond to COVID-19 (a disease caused by the novel coronavirus that originated in China) led to a steep and sudd...

Russian rhetoric has escalated as the Ukrainian president is likely to request additional security aid.

Program directors share the analysis and papers that stood out in this frenetic year.