In this post, we take a brief trip out of Athens to explore the issue of loadshedding and a sustainable policy solution in South Africa with Sara Anis Ali, a fourth-year Political Science and International Affairs major. Loadshedding refers to the state-sanctioned blackouts that occur to prevent an overload of the South African power grid. Such blackouts disproportionately affect the country’s Black residents.   Executive Summary:  For almost two decades South Africa has face

This is Cole Hendricks, the co-lead for policy analysis at API. This month, our center members looked at the Athens-Clarke County (ACC) Commission’s activities to achieve a better understanding of what the commission did this month as it pertains to the topics covered by API’s other centers. The following is what they found relative to each subject. Criminal Justice  by Max Swain During the October 7 th  meeting, the ACC Mayor and Commission unanimously approved the First Am

My name is Julia DePasquale, and I am a 3rd year Political Science and Statistics major here at the University of Georgia. For this...