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State Rep. Shedron Williams (L) introduces Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Tom Steyer during a campaign event in Hampton, South Carolina, U.S., February 23, 2020. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz

To win Black men’s votes in 2020, save your slogans and speak to our priorities

Rashawn Ray · Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Mike Bloomberg

Race in American Public Policy

Bloomberg’s comments on redlining distort a history of racism

Andre M. Perry and Vanessa Williamson

Thursday, February 20, 2020

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Three protesters embrace each other during a peaceful protest against police violence organized by the San Francisco LGBT Community Center in San Francisco, California December 24, 2014. An 18-year old black teen was fatally shot by police at a gas station late on Tuesday in a St. Louis suburb near where unarmed teen Michael Brown was killed by a white officer in August. REUTERS/Stephen Lam (UNITED STATES - Tags: CRIME LAW CIVIL UNREST)

Race in American Public Policy

Racial gaps in hope, ill-being, and deaths of despair

Thursday, February 27, 2020

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FILE PHOTO: Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak attends a meeting with Qatar's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber al-Thani at the presidential palace in Cairo December 11, 2010. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh/File Photo

Egypt

Hosni Mubarak’s risk-averse reign brought Egypt to calamity

Tamara Cofman Wittes

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

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House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) speaks at news conference announcing the passage of the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., November 16, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein

Policy 2020

Did the 2017 tax cut—the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—pay for itself?

William G. Gale

Friday, February 14, 2020

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Latest Research

Data transfer cables

Report

The United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement: Developing trade policy for digital trade

Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Digital access

Infrastructure

Digital prosperity: How broadband can deliver health and equity to all communities

Adie Tomer, Lara Fishbane, Angela Siefer, and Bill Callahan

February 27, 2020

A roadmap for growing good jobs

Report

A Roadmap for Growing Good Jobs: Background on data and methodology

Marcela Escobari and Ian Seyal

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Children march through a shopping centre in Cambridge during a YouthStrike4Climate march.

Report

Roadblocks to quality education in a time of climate change

Christina Kwauk

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Chinese President Xi Jinping (L) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attend the group photo session during the BRICS Summit at the Xiamen International Conference and Exhibition Center in Xiamen, southeastern China's Fujian Province, China September 4, 2017. REUTERS/Kenzaburo Fukuhara/Pool

Report

Managing China: Competitive engagement, with Indian characteristics

February 2020

Events

Preventing targeted violence against communities of faith

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EST

How a modernized Navy will compete with China and Russia

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EST

Congress and defense policy: A conversation with Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

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Blog Posts

Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul and former New York City mayor, eats lunch with Little Rock Mayor Frank Scott, Jr. after adding his name to the Democratic primary ballot in Arkansas in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S., November 12, 2019. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry

FixGov

With low turnout, candidates look to Arkansas more for big donors than Super Tuesday voters

Thursday, February 27, 2020

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Up Front

Hutchins Roundup: Inflation mismeasurement, new monetary policy tools, and more.

Manuel Alcalá Kovalski, Jeffrey Cheng, and David Wessel

Thursday, February 27, 2020

A slum dweller opens the door of a pay pit latrine in Kibera slum within Nairobi, Kenya February 27, 2019. Picture taken February 27, 2019. REUTERS/Njeri Mwangi

Africa in focus

Figures of the week: Service delivery in Africa’s urban areas

Thursday, February 27, 2020

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Books

Front Cover: Divided Politics, Divided Nation

Divided Politics, Divided Nation

By Darrell M. West

2020

Cvr: Fateful Triangle

Fateful Triangle

By Tanvi Madan

2020

Cvr: The Iranian Revolution at Forty

The Iranian Revolution at Forty

Edited by Suzanne Maloney

2020

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Afghan senior politicians and members of a Taliban delegation attend peace talks in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Good deals — and bad ones — with the Taliban

The Brookings Institution

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Supporters of the National Socialist Movement, a white nationalist political group, give Nazi salutes while taking part in a swastika burning at an undisclosed location in Georgia, U.S., April 21, 2018. REUTERS/Go Nakamura SEARCH "POY GLOBAL" FOR FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2018 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

White-Supremacist Violence Is Terrorism

The Atlantic

Monday, February 24, 2020

Taliban ride on a motorbike in Kabul, Afghanistan June 16, 2018. The writing on the flag reads: 'There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah'. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail

Sirajuddin Haqqani, Terrorist

Friday, February 21, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Doctors look at a screen that shows the ward where patients who are infected with the coronavirus are treated at the First People's Hospital in Yueyang, Hunan Province, near the border to Hubei Province, which is under partial lockdown after an outbreak of a new coronavirus, in China January 28, 2020. REUTERS/Thomas Peter/File Photo

On coronavirus, America and China must demonstrate global leadership and join together

Thursday, February 20, 2020

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban addresses supporters after the announcement of the partial results of parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 8, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo

How to reverse the global drift toward authoritarianism

Foreign Policy

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

The US military has made progress in ending racial discrimination. The rest of our country must as well.

The Brookings Institution

Thursday, February 6, 2020

Brookings Around The World

The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution

Washington, D.C., USA

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Brookings Doha

Brookings Tsinghua

Brookings Tsinghua

Haidian, Beijing, China

Brookings India

Brookings India

New Delhi, Delhi, India