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What to watch for in the first Democratic debates

John Hudak · Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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The Palestinian Territories

Trump puts the cart before the horse in Palestine

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

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U.S. Politics & Government

Joe Biden’s ideas to help the middle class

Ashley Schobert and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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Labor Policy & Unemployment

Black workers are being left behind by full employment

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Post

Can the US and Africa prosper together?

Witney Schneidman and Jay Ireland

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Latest Research

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Gulf States

Red Sea Rivalries: The Gulf, the Horn, and the new geopolitics of the Red Sea

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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Iraq

Pitfalls of the paramilitary paradigm: The Iraqi state, geopolitics, and Al-Hashd al-Shaabi

Vanda Felbab-Brown

June 2019

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China

Rethinking US-China competition: Next generation perspectives

Tarun Chhabra, Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass, Mira Rapp-Hooper, Bruce Jones, and Will Moreland

June 2019

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Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

Automatic enrollment in 401(k) annuities: Boosting retiree lifetime income

Vanya Horneff, Raimond Maurer, and Olivia S. Mitchell

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

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Retirement, Pensions, & Social Security

Using behavioral insights to increase annuitization rates: The role of framing and anchoring

Abigail Hurwitz

Tuesday, June 25, 2019

Events

Information-sharing ecosystems: How they operate and what that means for privacy legislation

1:30 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Development Seminar | Moving India to a new growth trajectory

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

The impact of militias on governance and geopolitics in the Middle East and North Africa

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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Blog Posts

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Order from Chaos

Brookings experts assess White House Middle East economic plan

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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Africa in focus

Can Trump’s Prosper Africa make America greater than China and other partners in Africa?

Landry Signé and Eric Olander

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives to testify before a Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees joint hearing

TechTank

Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy

Cameron F. Kerry and John B. Morris

Wednesday, June 26, 2019

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Books

Front Cover: Divided Politics, Divided Nation

Divided Politics, Divided Nation

By Darrell M. West

2019

From Gutenberg to Google

From Gutenberg to Google

By Tom Wheeler

2019

Cover: The Senkaku Paradox

The Senkaku Paradox

By Michael E. O’Hanlon

2019

Brookings Around The World

The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution

Washington, D.C., USA

Brookings Doha

Brookings Doha

Brookings Tsinghua

Brookings Tsinghua

Haidian, Beijing, China

Brookings India

Brookings India

New Delhi, Delhi, India