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A view of a neighborhood with three story homes in Las Vegas, Nevada April 4, 2013. The buying of foreclosed homes and other distressed homes by three big institutional buyers is reshaping the housing market in Las Vegas. REUTER/Steve Marcus (UNITED STATES - Tags: REAL ESTATE BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION)

Electing a president: The significance of Nevada

Robert E. Lang, David F. Damore, and William E. Brown Jr. · Tuesday, February 18, 2020

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Moving from ‘secret sauce’ to open standards for 5G

Tuesday, February 18, 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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Global Trade

How will the UK use financial sanctions in a post-Brexit world?

David Dollar and Tom Keatinge

Tuesday, February 18, 2020

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Israel

Israel’s fury over UN settlement ‘blacklist’ is only the beginning

Monday, February 17, 2020.

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Latest Research

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Demographics & Population

Reducing immigration will not stop America’s rising diversity, Census projections show

William H. Frey

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Briefing Room at the White House in Washington, U.S., January 3, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Barria TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC17FEADDE40

Health Care Policy

Health care in President Trump’s fiscal year 2021 budget

Matthew Fiedler, Loren Adler, and Christen Linke Young

Thursday, February 13, 2020

Business

Business & Industry

Five-star reviews, one-star profits: The devaluation of businesses in Black communities

Andre M. Perry, Jonathan Rothwell, and David Harshbarger

February 18, 2020

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Technology & Innovation

Protecting privacy in an AI-driven world

Cameron F. Kerry

Monday, February 10, 2020

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Report

Next generation urban planning: Enabling sustainable development at the local level through voluntary local reviews (VLRs)

Anthony F. Pipa and Max Bouchet

Sunday, February 9, 2020

Events

Five-star reviews, one-star profits: The devaluation of businesses in Black communities

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

Understanding the drivers of inequality in Africa and implications for human development

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM EST

Panel Discussion | The crisis of democratic capitalism

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM IST

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Blog Posts

Soldiers stand outside a safe house, where five people were shot dead during an operation on Friday to recapture the world's top drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, at Jiquilpan Boulevard in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa state, Mexico, January 9, 2016. Mexico's government aims to fulfill a request from the United States to extradite the newly-recaptured drug lord Guzman to face drug trafficking charges, sources familiar with the situation said on Saturday. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

Order from Chaos

Better law enforcement, yes; opportunistic decapitation, no

Vanda Felbab-Brown

February 14, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Senator Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden and Senator Bernie Sanders participate in the eighth Democratic 2020 presidential debate at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., February 7, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

Order from Chaos

The real progressive-centrist divide on foreign policy

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A voter leaves a voting booth after casting her ballot in the state's presidential primary election in Greenfield, New Hampshire, U.S. February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Gretchen Ertl/File Photo

FixGov

The future is female: How the growing political power of women will remake American politics

Michael Hais and Morley Winograd

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

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Books

Front Cover: Divided Politics, Divided Nation

Upcoming

Divided Politics, Divided Nation

By Darrell M. West

2020

Cvr: Fateful Triangle

Fateful Triangle

By Tanvi Madan

2020

Cvr: The Iranian Revolution at Forty

Upcoming

The Iranian Revolution at Forty

Edited by Suzanne Maloney

2020

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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

General view of the Congress Center during the 50th World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse

Disrupting the international order

Wednesday, January 22, 2020

President of Brookings testifies in front of the Subcommittee on Intelligence and Counterterrorism of the House Committee on Homeland Security on January 15, 2020

Confronting the rise in Anti-Semitic domestic terrorism

Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Soldiers and rescue workers unload aid from cargo aeroplane in Sittwe airpot at Sittwe, Rakhine state, August 5, 2015. The United States will announce an aid package for Myanmar to help the Southeast Asian country provide relief for the hundreds of thousands of people affected by floods, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday. More than 250,000 people have been affected and 69 killed by flooding that was triggered last week by monsoon rains, according to the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun - GF20000014051

US foreign aid is worth defending now more than ever

The Brookings Institution

Wednesday, September 4, 2019

A mourner holds a candle during a vigil at scene of a mass shooting in Dayton

Gun violence in America: A true national security threat

Monday, August 5, 2019

Brookings Around The World

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Washington, D.C., USA

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Brookings Tsinghua

Haidian, Beijing, China

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New Delhi, Delhi, India