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The East Tennessee State University Center for Applied Research and Evaluation in Women’s Health (CARE Women’s Health) is studying the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on contraceptive services in health department clinics and federally qualified health centers (FQHC). Before the arrival of the pandemic, CARE Women’s Health, housed in the ETSU College of Public Health, had been working with clinical partners in South Carolina and Alabama on ongoing research related to reproductive health. In early 2020, the center planned to launch a survey to collect data from family planning c...

Introduction Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are unique among other higher education institutions, as they have a distinctive dual mission. Like institutions in other sectors, they educate students in preparation for the workforce or further education, but they also address the priorities of their tribal communities. Those priorities can include a wide range of needs such as economic development, reduction of unemployment, and the preservation of Native culture, language, and traditions (IHEP, 2007; Rainie & Stull, 2016). This unique nature of TCUs is already widely recognized by orga...

Toggle open close Over the past few years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has set a terrible precedent by greatly expanding its use of the Agriculture Secretary’s discretionary spending authority under the Commodity Credit Corporation Charter Act.REF Congress has only exacerbated the problem by passing appropriations language that arguably suggests an after-the-fact blessing of these actions.REF The Agriculture Secretary has far too much discretion under the Charter Act, but up until recently, this discretionary power has generally not been abused. Over the past few years, this h...

Toggle open close In February, President Joe Biden plans to outline an infrastructure plan intended to help America “build back better.” Congress has already provided nearly $4.5 trillion in response to the coronavirus outbreak. Spending more—possibly trillions more—risks stunting the economic recovery and wasting taxpayer money. Many arguments are made for expanded infrastructure spending: Low interest rates make investment now cheaper than ever; federal investments in new energy technologies will help to aid certain politically favored industries while curbing others; American infra...

Western Imperialism and the Role of Sub-imperialism in the Global South At first blush, Joe Biden’s election as U.S. president brings respite from a world threatened by Donald Trump’s climate-denialist, dictator-coddling, xenophobic, racist, misogynist, rules-breaking regime. On second thought, 2021 will also initiate an unwelcome restoration of legitimacy to Western imperialism akin to Barack Obama’s rule. Biden’s (2020) recent Foreign Affairs article began by stressing how since 2017, “the international system that the United States so carefully constructed is coming apart at the...