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United Nations Building in New York

What’s on the agenda at the UN General Assembly?

Bruce Jones and Adrianna Pita · Friday, September 16, 2022

Two men installing solar panels on a roof

Report

Not according to plan: Exploring gaps in city climate planning and the need for regional action

Joseph W. Kane, Adie Tomer, Caroline George, and Jamal Russell Black

Thursday, September 22, 2022

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Podcast Episode

What does more remote work mean for workers and the economy?

Janice C. Eberly, James Stock, Steven J. Davis, and Stephanie Aaronson

Tuesday, September 20, 2022

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A sign directs voters to the St. Cloud City Hall polling place for primary elections Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022, along Seventh Street South in St. Cloud.Primary Voting 1

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Lessons from the 2022 Primaries — what do they tell us about America’s political parties and the midterm elections?

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

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Crowd of faces around the globe

Essay

Rebooting global cooperation is imperative to successfully navigate the multitude of shocks facing the global economy

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly

Friday, September 16, 2022

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Latest Research

A person dressed as an internet hacker is seen with binary code displayed on a laptop screen in this double exposure illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland on August 17, 2021. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Terrorism & Extremism

Content moderation tools to stop extremism

Daniel L. Byman

September 2022

United States Capital, Washington DC

Essay

A new community safety blueprint: How the federal government can address violence and harm through a public health approach

Thea Sebastian, Hanna Love, Sam Washington, Anthony Barr, Insha Rahman, Blake Paradis, Andre M. Perry, and Sakira Cook

Wednesday, September 21, 2022

A ruined elevator near the railway on the way to the liberated Balakliya, Kharkiv region, on September 14, 2022. (Photo by Oleksandr Khomenko/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Essay

Putin’s war in Ukraine: A conversation with Fiona Hill and Angela Stent

Fiona Hill, Angela Stent, and Agneska Bloch

Monday, September 19, 2022

global economy visualization

Global Economy

The external wealth of nations database

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti

Monday, September 19, 2022

Hands come together to support the Earth.

Report

Shared priorities to transform education systems: Mapping recovery and transformation agendas

Rebecca Winthrop

Thursday, September 15, 2022

Events

Emerging technologies and the future of work in Africa

11:00 AM - 12:15 PM EDT

Brookings Institution

Accelerating city climate planning and action in an era of historic federal investment

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Recent trends in global value chains and beyond

9:00 AM - 11:10 AM EDT

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Blog Posts

A general view of the U.S. Capitol Building, in Washington, D.C., on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

FixGov

Pivoting from global climate laggard to leader: Kigali and American HFC policy

Friday, September 23, 2022

American flags partially torn from their poles fly as a storm producing strong winds passes through Washington, U.S., March 2, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts

FixGov

Why federalism has become risky for American democracy

Darrell M. West

Friday, September 23, 2022

Fourth industrial revolution on futuristic hud with world map globe. concept of automatization, machinery, robotic technology, industrial revolution and artificial intelligence.

Africa in Focus

Inclusion, inequality, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) in Africa

Louise Fox and Landry Signé

Friday, September 23, 2022

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Books

Cvr: Ukraine's Revolt

Ukraine’s Revolt, Russia’s Revenge

By Christopher M. Smith

2022

Cvr: Searching for Peace

Searching for Peace

By Ehud Olmert

2022

Fixer Upper

Fixer-Upper

By Jenny Schuetz

2022

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Student Lilly Fish works on her signing skills during sign language class at the Pride School in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. on December 7, 2016. The Pride School is a K-12 school for LGBT+ students and others that benefit from alternative educational resources. Picture taken on December 7, 2016. REUTERS/Tami Chappell

Why does inclusion often neglect the needs of deaf students?

Roberta J. Cordano

Thursday, September 22, 2022

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Hutchins Roundup: Historical interest rates, smart thermostats, and more

Elijah Asdourian, James Lee, Lorae Stojanovic, and Louise Sheiner

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Workers distribute cases of bottled water to people in need at a distribution point during the municipal water crisis brought on by extreme cold weather weeks ago in Jackson, Mississippi, U.S. March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Biden should embrace the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

Amb. Elizabeth Cousens and Anthony F. Pipa

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Photo: Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

Understanding artificial intelligence spending by the U.S. federal government

Gregory S. Dawson, Kevin C. Desouza, and James S. Denford

Thursday, September 22, 2022

The different ways that platforms can and do moderate extremist content

Daniel L. Byman and Alan Z. Rozenshtein

The Lawfare Podcast

Thursday, September 22, 2022

20 January 2021, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Tübingen: A researcher works on a code in the AI Research Buildung at the University of Tübingen, which is part of the "Cyber Valley". This is where the "Machine Learning" Cluster of Excellence of the Department of Computer Science of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences is located. (to dpa "Artificial intelligence is booming and the southwest is setting the pace") Photo: Sebastian Gollnow/dpa

How do recommender systems work on digital platforms?

Wednesday, September 21, 2022