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A delegate arrives for the COP24 UN Climate Change Conference 2018 in Katowice, Poland December 2, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel

American climate leadership without American government

John R. Allen · Friday, December 14, 2018

Students hold signs while rallying in the street during the "March for Our Lives" demanding stricter gun control laws at the Miami Beach Senior High School, in Miami, Florida, U.S., March 24, 2018. REUTERS/Javier Galeano - RC1C60279010

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Six years after Sandy Hook, House Democrats can build on grassroots gun reform

Friday, December 14, 2018

Unifor National President, Jerry Dias, speaks to GM workers at a union meeting near the General Motors' assembly plant in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada November 26, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio - RC1196CCCEC0

Workforce Development

What GM’s layoffs reveal about the digitalization of the auto industry

Mark Muro and Robert Maxim

December 13, 2018

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United Kingdom

Brexit endgame: Theresa May’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Lauranda Mignery (L) watches her sons, Kadin Mignery, 2, (C) and Collin Mignery, 5, as they play on their front porch in St. Joseph, Missouri, U.S. November 15, 2016. Picture taken November 15, 2016. To match Special Report USA-LEAD/TESTING REUTERS/Whitney Curtis - RC1D32EE2110

Children & Families

Worse than foster care? Why not imagine something better for maltreated children?

Ron Haskins and Jeremy Kohomban

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Latest Research

A 'for sale' is seen outside a single family house in Uniondale, New York, U.S., May 23, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton - S1BETFTCVJAB

Housing Markets & Finance

The Goldilocks problem of housing supply: Too little, too much, or just right?

December 14, 2018

A man works on an electrical component on the factory floor of PP Control and Automation near Cannock, Britain

Technology & Innovation

How to adjust to automation

Robert E. Litan

Thursday, December 13, 2018

Container boxes are seen at the Yangshan Deep Water Port, part of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai, China September 24, 2016. Picture taken September 24, 2016. REUTERS/Aly Song/File Photo - RTSS0CU

Technology & Innovation

The impact of artificial intelligence on international trade

Joshua P. Meltzer

Thursday, December 13, 2018

REFILE - CORRECTING PUNCTUATION Displaced Iraqi residents carry biscuits and bottles of water as they walk past other residents waiting for the food distribution of an aid organization during the first day of Eid al-Fitr celebration in West Mosul, Iraq June 25, 2017. REUTERS/Erik De Castro TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC19775F43A0

Report

Do social protection programs improve life satisfaction?

Talajeh Livani and Carol Graham

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Shoppers walk during the opening of the 'Mall of Africa' in Midrand outside Johannesburg, South Africa April 28, 2016. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - D1AETAYSBVAB

Developing Economies

Africa’s consumer market potential

Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Events

From Korea to the Congo: Nehru’s India and UN Peacekeeping (1945-1965)

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM IST

Falling apart? The politics of New START and strategic modernization

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

Development Seminar: Is housing an intractable problem?

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

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Blog Posts

Flags, Africa

Brookings Now

Charts of the week: Africa data

Friday, December 14, 2018

Early morning smog shrouds cooling towers of a power plant in Cape Town, South Africa, June 8, 2006. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings/File Photo - D1BEUEVDZVAB

Africa in focus

Figure of the week: Climate change vulnerability and urban population growth

Friday, December 14, 2018

Students arrive for school in Mahnomen school district in Mahnomen, Minnesota

Brown Center Chalkboard

Want more diverse teachers in more places? Start with diverse principals

Friday, December 14, 2018

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Books

The Future of Work

By Darrell M. West

2018

Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2018

Book cover: Diversity Explosion

Diversity Explosion

By William H. Frey

2018

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FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures to supporters during a campaign rally at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S., November 5, 2018. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo - RC13BA61D600

Three reasons you should be startled by how the Senate rebuked Trump

Sarah A. Binder

The Washington Post Friday, December 14, 2018

Retirees Gene Bloczynski (L) and Eric Vannieuwburg fish from a public dock on the Sacramento River in the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta in Rio Vista, California September 4, 2013. California water officials have proposed redesigning two water diversion tunnels planned for the Delta, away from several small towns along the Sacramento River that Delta residents said would be threatened under the existing plan. Water from the tunnels would flow to urban areas in the Silicon Valley, Los Angeles and San Diego and farmers in the San Joaquin Valley. Picture taken September 4, 2013. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENT SOCIETY) - GM1E99A0DRA01

Help people work longer by phasing retirement

Joshua Gotbaum and Bruce Wolfe

Friday, December 14, 2018

A woman walks past the Hausari primary school in Michika village, northeast Nigeria June 12, 2017. Picture taken June 12, 2017. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye - RC1AFAC79A10

Leave no one behind: From development slogan to policy practice

Geoffrey Gertz and Homi Kharas

Friday, December 14, 2018

The city of Johannesburg over looks the Mandela bridge, with trains parked underneath in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 29, 2018. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RC1A1A80F7F0

Korea-Africa relations hold enormous trade, development, and investment potential

Friday, December 14, 2018

A visitor takes a picture of a display demonstrating crowd surveillance at the stall of the artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology company Sensetime at the Security China 2018 exhibition on public safety and security in Beijing, China October 23, 2018. Picture taken October 23, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Peter - RC1D2D4A0030

AI, cybersecurity, and the future of geopolitics

John Villasenor and Fred Dews

Friday, December 14, 2018

A United Launch Alliance Atlas V 551 rocket blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, January 20, 2015. The unmanned rocket blasted off with a next-generation communications satellite designed to provide cellular-like voice and data services to U.S. military forces around the world. Picture taken using long exposure, looking over the campus of Florida Institute of Technologies in Melbourne, about 40 miles from the launch pad. REUTERS/Michael Brown (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EB1L0SXU01

How space-based missile defenses could make us less safe, not more

James N. Miller and Frank A. Rose

Friday, December 14, 2018

Brookings Around The World

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