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Trump’s war on ‘fake news’ could actually make the mainstream media stronger

Jonathan Rauch · Friday, August 17, 2018

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Global Development

If the US doesn’t lead on foreign assistance, who will?

Fred Dews and Merrell Tuck-Primdahl

Friday, August 17, 2018

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China

Principles for managing U.S.-China competition

August 2018

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Global Trade

Wessel’s Economic Update: Are Trump’s tariffs hurting the US economy?

Friday, August 17, 2018

Center for discovery at the University of Wisconsin

Cities & Regions

The Rust Belt needs capital to turn talent and innovation into jobs

Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Latest Research

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Financial Institutions

Financial conditions and GDP growth-at-risk

Tobias Adrian, Federico Grinberg, Nellie Liang, and Sheheryar Malik

Friday, August 17, 2018

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Global Economy

A digital trade policy for Latin America and the Caribbean

Joshua P. Meltzer

Thursday, August 16, 2018

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Education

A promising alternative to subsidized lunch receipt as a measure of student poverty

Matthew M. Chingos

Thursday, August 16, 2018

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Development Financing

Mobilizing private investment and the Compact with Africa: A preliminary assessment and steps ahead

Rob Floyd, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Jann Lay, Rainer Thiele, and Jing Gu

Monday, August 13, 2018

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Regulatory Policy

So you want to comment on a regulation? Here’s how

Friday, August 10, 2018

Events

New trilateralism: India-Indonesia-Australia relations

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Reimagining the U.S.-South Korea alliance

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Reviving BIMSTEC and the Bay of Bengal Community

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Blog Posts

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Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Disputed election results in Mali and Zimbabwe, sanctions on South Sudan, and more

Saturday, August 18, 2018

The U.S. Capitol building lit at dusk .

Brookings Now

Charts of the week: Government reform, municipal taxes, and teacher diversity across the US

Friday, August 17, 2018

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Up Front

From fragility to resilience: Recommendations for strengthening USAID’s ‘self-reliance’ approach

George Ingram and Jonathan Papoulidis

Friday, August 17, 2018

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Books

The Future of Work

By Darrell M. West

2018

Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2018

Diversity Explosion

By William H. Frey

2018

More

Why doctors and mayors will be the next playful learning advocates

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

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Trump is winning!

Friday, August 17, 2018

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Is it unconstitutional for Trump to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance?

Friday, August 17, 2018

School children attend class at Waterstone College, a private school managed by Curro in the south of Johannesburg July 22, 2015. South African private education group Advtech rejected a takeover offer from its bigger rival Curro Holdings, saying on Tuesday the proposal contained "unacceptable pre-conditions". Advtech's shares fell more than 7 percent shortly after the announcement that it had rejected Curro's bid, but pared losses to close down 2.93 percent at 11.60 rand. The shares are up about 30 percent so far this year. Curro's stock shed 0.83 percent to close on 11.70 rand. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - GF10000166735

Smart power: Investing in youth leadership and development

Witney Schneidman

Friday, August 17, 2018

A student operates a drill press in a metalwork class

Why we should train workers like we train machine learning algorithms

Makada Henry-Nickie

Friday, August 17, 2018

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Is the Republican Party really Donald Trump’s party?

Elaine Kamarck and Alexander R. Podkul

Thursday, August 16, 2018

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