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Is there a glimmer of hope for the INF Treaty?

Steven Pifer · Thursday, December 27, 2018

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Congress in 2019: Five things to watch for in the budget battles to come

Molly E. Reynolds

Thursday, December 27, 2018

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Children & Families

Yes, families do eat dinner together. Happy Holidays!

Richard V. Reeves and Sarah Nzau

Friday, December 21, 2018

Podcast Episode

Advancing women’s leadership around the world

Julia Gillard, Christina Kwauk, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

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Demographics & Population

US population growth hits 80-year low, capping off a year of demographic stagnation

William H. Frey

Friday, December 21, 2018

Latest Research

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Health Care Policy

Effects of weakening safeguards in the Administration’s Health Reimbursement Arrangement proposal

Matthew Fiedler

Friday, December 28, 2018

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Israel

Addressing Israel's growing demand for skills in the developing world

December 2018

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Regulatory Policy

How OIRA should review Treasury tax regulations

Greg Leiserson and Adam Looney

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Safe Passage worker Irene Fonder helps two Sherwood Elementary School children cross an intersection in the Englewood neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, United States, September 8, 2015. The fourth-largest U.S. public school system is not cutting corners when it comes to the $17.8 million annual budget for safety patrols that watch over children walking to school through neighborhoods plagued by gang violence. The school district has expanded the two-year-old Safe Passage program to seven additional schools this year, bringing it to a total of 140 of Chicago's 660 public schools. REUTERS/Jim Young - GF10000197899

Early Childhood Education

A good-enough early childhood

Grover J. “Russ” Whitehurst

Thursday, December 20, 2018

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Report

Mainstreaming gender equality and empowerment education in post-primary schools in India

Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Events

Falling apart? The politics of New START and strategic modernization

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Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

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Securing maritime commerce—the U.S. strategic outlook

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FixGov

Congress in 2019: Democrat-led House oversight is likely in store for DeVos

Elizabeth Mann Levesque

Saturday, December 29, 2018

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Up Front

Top ten 2018 reads on the Future of the Middle Class

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Friday, December 28, 2018

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FixGov

Congress in 2019: The 2nd most educated and least politically experienced House freshman class

Casey Burgat and Charles Hunt

Friday, December 28, 2018

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Books

The Future of Work

By Darrell M. West

2018

Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2018

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Diversity Explosion

By William H. Frey

2018

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The center left and globalization

Kemal Derviş and Caroline Conroy

Friday, December 28, 2018

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Shuffling the deck chairs in Saudi Arabia

Tamara Cofman Wittes and Bruce Riedel

Friday, December 28, 2018

Brookings Institution

The 10 most popular Brookings content pieces of 2018

Friday, December 28, 2018

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China-US contention has opened up space for other powers, including India

Shivshankar Menon

Friday, December 28, 2018

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The shutdown is just the finale. Here are five takeaways from the Republican Congress’s chaotic 2018.

Sarah A. Binder

The Washington Post Thursday, December 27, 2018

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The top Brookings videos of 2018

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Brookings Around The World

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Washington, D.C., USA

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Brookings Doha

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Brookings Tsinghua

Haidian, Beijing, China

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Brookings India

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