Brookings Mountain West is pleased to collaborate with our colleagues at the Brookings Institution and offer a series of public policy articles in advance of the 2016 presidential election. Brookings Mountain West, a unique partnership between UNLV and the Washington, DC-based Brookings Institution enlisted a roster of public policy experts to author a series of articles on a issues important to Nevada and the nation. The essays appeared in two local publications. The Sunday and the Las Vegas Sun in the summer and fall of 2016. We hope you enjoy reading the informative and provocative essays published in this series on topics including but not limited to K-12 education, marijuana legislation, foreign policy, poverty, social mobility, alternative energy, the U.S. Congress, and others.