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Soon after Joe Biden is inaugurated as the next US president, he is expected to take several strong steps on the labor front aimed at reversing or remedying the policies of Donald Trump – who promised workers a lot and delivered little. But Biden’s number one priority will be to tackle the issues left in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic. Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Labor, Marty Walsh – the Mayor of Boston and before that a labor leader...

Tanoj Meshram Tanoj Meshram, an alumnus of IIM Ahmedabad, is a former civil servant, anti-caste social activist and researcher with over two decades of experience at a strategic level in government, non-profits, and social movements. Currently, he is finishing his Ph.D. thesis in Social Policy from Heller School for Social Policy and Management, at Brandeis University, USA. Born and brought up in a village in Vidarbha, he has lived and worked in 11 states in India and abroad and brings that diverse exposure and network into his work and writings. Less... More Tanoj Meshram BLOGS

Ancient Greek Coins: Archaic to Classical Bronze Age Mycenaean culture, quickly began to dominate the eastern Mediterranean Sea. For roughly three hundred years after that great Mediterranean power–centered on the city of Mycenae but with trading cities throughout the Peloponnese and Asia Minor–violently collapsed, Greece descended into a so-called dark age. Marked by the recognizable geometric artistic style that can be seen on the terracotta krater to the right. We do not have any “first-handwritten documents of any kind” from this time. The geometric style can be seen mainly on...

By Taylor Ann Bradford  Staff Writer Dec 28, 2020 Dec 28, 2020 With a substantial amount of financial support from the University of Baltimore, a nonprofit with roots in Gloucester will be able to further its efforts to prevent fatal overdoses through training for officers and community partners in both Massachusetts and Maine. The Police Assisted Addiction & Recovery Initiative (P.A.A.R.I.), in partnership with the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University, was awarded a $149,173 grant from the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA, the University of Baltim...

Presider Vice President, National Program and Outreach FASKIANOS: Good afternoon and welcome to the Council on Foreign Relations Social Justice and Foreign Policy webinar series. I'm Irina Faskianos, vice president for the National Program and Outreach here at CFR. As a reminder, today's webinar is on the record and the audio, video, and transcript will be available on our website, CFR.org, and on our iTunes podcast channel, Religion and Foreign Policy. As always, CFR takes no institutional positions on matters of policy. We're delighted to have a distinguis...