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Twenty years later, how Americans assess the effects of the 9/11 attacks

William A. Galston · Thursday, September 9, 2021

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Cities are taking it slow with American Rescue Plan funds

Alan Berube and Eli Byerly-Duke

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

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Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga bows during speaking to media at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo on September 3, 2021. PM Suga decided not to run for the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) presidential election. PM Suga will resign prime minister as his term of office expires at the end of this month. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Japan

Suga steps down: Japanese politics in the pandemic era

Friday, September 3, 2021

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A hot labor market won’t eliminate racial and ethnic unemployment gaps

Stephanie Aaronson, Mitchell Barnes, and Wendy Edelberg

Thursday, September 2, 2021

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Climate Change

Our last, best chance on climate

Amar Bhattacharya and Nicholas Stern

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

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Latest Research

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Technology & Innovation

Using AI and machine learning to reduce government fraud

Darrell M. West

Friday, September 10, 2021

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Essay

Options for containing the cost of a new Medicare dental, hearing, and vision benefit

Matthew Fiedler

Friday, September 10, 2021

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Government and private household debt relief during COVID-19

Susan Cherry, Erica Jiang, Gregor Matvos, Tomasz Piskorski, and Amit Seru

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

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Income Inequality & Social Mobility

The economic gains from equity

Shelby R. Buckman, Laura Y. Choi, Mary C. Daly, and Lily M. Seitelman

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

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U.S. Economy

Losing the inflation anchor

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Events

The future of money: The end of cash and the rise of digital currencies

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

A conversation with Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John E. Hyten

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Accelerating COVID-19 vaccinations in Africa

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

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Blog Posts

FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine under the COVAX scheme at the Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 13, 2021. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire, and vaccine updates

Saturday, September 11, 2021

The U.S. Air Force has conducted the first flight test of an artificial intelligence “brain” system named Skyborg. The campaign is one step closer to developing unmanned “loyal wingman” drones, or remotely crewed aerial vehicles that can fly alongside jet fighters, bombers, and support aircraft. The Skyborg leadership team conducted a 2 hour and 10 minute flight test of the Skyborg autonomy core system, or ACS, aboard a Kratos UTAP-22 tactical unmanned vehicle at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, April 29. The USAF say: “The aim of the Skyborg Vanguard program is to integrate full-mission autonomy with low-cost, attritable unmanned air vehicle technology to enable manned-unmanned teaming. Skyborg will provide the foundation on which the Air Force can build an airborne autonomous ‘best of breed’ system of systems that adapts, orients and decides at machine speed for a wide variety of increasingly complex mission sets.” Where: Florida, United Kingdom When: 29 Apr 2021 Credit: USAF/Cover-Images.com

Order from Chaos

“War is interested in you”: Balancing the promise and peril of high-tech deterrence

Melanie W. Sisson

Friday, September 10, 2021

Afghan refugees are processed inside Hangar 5 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, September 8, 2021. Olivier Douliery / Pool via REUTERS

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The evacuation of Afghan refugees is over. Now what?

Elizabeth Ferris

Friday, September 10, 2021

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Books

Cvr: Turning Point

Turning Point

By Darrell M. West and John R. Allen

2020

Cover: Know Your Price

Know Your Price

By Andre M. Perry

2020

Cvr: The Constitution of Knowledge

The Constitution of Knowledge

By Jonathan Rauch

2021

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How should the United States deter China?

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks in a virtual Climate Summit with world leaders in the East Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 23, 2021. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

Biden’s two types of mulilateralism

Friday, September 10, 2021

U.S. Air Force pararescuemen secure an area in Afghanistan, Nov. 7, 2012, (https://www.dvidshub.net/image/791522/pararescue-afghanistan/Staff Sgt. Jonathan Snyder/United States Air Force)

Remembering the gains of the Afghanistan war

Benjamin Wittes and Daniel L. Byman

Lawfare Friday, September 10, 2021

Rwanda.- In the photos taken on March 8, 2021, it shows a vaccination center against the coronavirus. Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda began vaccinating frontline healthcare workers and vulnerable citizens against Covid-19 as Africa, the world's poorest continent and home to 1.3 billion people, stepped up its vaccination campaigns.

Africa must produce its own vaccines

Friday, September 10, 2021

An American flag and red rose stand in the names of those lost at the edge of the south reflecting pool of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in lower Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar

How 9/11 changed the policy world

Madiha Afzal, Scott R. Anderson, John Hudak, Elaine Kamarck, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, and Fred Dews

Friday, September 10, 2021

Aerial view of a crosswalk in Japan

Responding to risks of COVID debt distress

Thursday, September 9, 2021