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Democracy & Disorder: The struggle for influence in the new geopolitics

Bruce Jones and Torrey Taussig · February 2019

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116th U.S. Congress

Can Congress stop Trump’s national emergency declaration?

Molly E. Reynolds

Wednesday, February 27, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping make joint statements at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, November 9, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC16EDA92520

Global Trade

Developing a mutually beneficial US-China economic relationship

Joshua P. Meltzer

Thursday, February 28, 2019

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An interactive exploration of the geography of prosperity

Ryan Nunn, Jana Parsons, and Jay Shambaugh

Thursday, February 28, 2019

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Infrastructure

Why is federal infrastructure policy so difficult?

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Latest Research

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India

Introduction: Survey of India’s Strategic Community

Dhruva Jaishankar

Friday, March 1, 2019

Aides gesture as U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, Chinese Vice Premier and lead trade negotiator Liu He, and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin line up for a photo before the opening session of trade negotiations at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019. Mark Schiefelbein/Pool via REUTERS - RC1BB7FBA400

Report

The US-China economic relationship: A comprehensive approach

Joshua P. Meltzer and Neena Shenai

Thursday, February 28, 2019

A school bus sits parked along a street in the Queens borough of New York January 16, 2013. For the first time in 34 years, New York City bus drivers went on strike, stranding up to 152,000 students in the nation's largest public school system on sleet-soaked Wednesday morning. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION CIVIL UNREST BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - GM1E91H00RI01

Education

The opportunities and risks of K-12 student placement algorithms

Matt Kasman and Jon Valant

Thursday, February 28, 2019

People walk on the Margaret bridge as they attend Hungarian march at a pro-Orban rally during Hungary's National Day celebrations, which also commemorates the 1848 Hungarian Revolution against the Habsburg monarchy, in Budapest, Hungary March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Bernadett Szabo - RC1873B30490

Europe

The anatomy of illiberal states

Alina Polyakova, Torrey Taussig, Ted Reinert, Kemal Kirişci, Amanda Sloat, James Kirchick, Melissa Hooper, Norman Eisen, and Andrew Kenealy

February 2019

Alice Weidel of Alternative for Germany (AfD) speaks during a session at the lower house of parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany November 21, 2018. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch - RC1A64D3ACF0

Germany

Germany: Baffled hegemon

Constanze Stelzenmüller

February 2019

Events

Revisiting interventionism: India’s peacekeeping force in Sri Lanka

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Development Seminar | Work in progress: Improving youth labour market outcomes in emerging & developing economies

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

After the Trump-Kim summit 2.0: What’s next for US policy on North Korea?

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EST

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Blog Posts

Election workers take part in vote counting during the presidential election in Dakar, Senegal February 24, 2019. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra - RC17E7C91480

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Nigeria and Senegal election results, state of emergency in Sudan, and salary delays in Namibia

Saturday, March 2, 2019

A vendor checks the stock of medicine at a legal pharmacy in Abidjan, Ivory Coast October 16, 2018. Picture taken October 16, 2018. REUTERS/Luc Gnago - RC1790222440

Future Development

Is trade with India changing Africa’s health care landscape?

Siddharth Dixit, Natalie Emery, and Chinmoy Kumar

Friday, March 1, 2019

Portland Oregon

The Avenue

Oregon’s new rent control law is only a band-aid on the state’s housing woes

Friday, March 1, 2019

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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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A doctor attends to a child at a relief centre for flood victims in Patani community in Nigeria's Delta state October 14, 2012. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan on October 11 visited some of the hundreds of thousands of people made homeless by the country's worst flooding in at least five decades, calling it a 'national disaster'. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde (NIGERIA - Tags: DISASTER HEALTH) - GM1E8AE1N9001

Closing Africa’s health financing gap

Osondu Ogbuoji, Ipchita Bharali, Natalie Emery, and Kaci Kennedy McDade

Friday, March 1, 2019

Graduating students of the City College of New York sit together in their caps and gowns as they listen to U.S. first lady Michelle Obama's address during the College's commencement ceremony in the Harlem section of Manhattan, New York, U.S., June 3, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar - D1BETHVBVCAA

The future of higher education: A conversation with Lawrence Bacow, President of Harvard University

Richard V. Reeves

Friday, March 1, 2019

Supporters of Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari celebrate in Kano, Nigeria February 27, 2019. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde - RC1BC88583D0

The 2019 Nigerian elections and Buhari’s second chance to provide peace, prosperity, and security

John Mukum Mbaku

Friday, March 1, 2019

Medical equipment is pictured on the wall of an examination room inside a Kaiser Permanente health clinic located inside a Target retail department store in San Diego

Joint recommendations of Brookings and AEI scholars to reduce health care costs

Henry J. Aaron, Loren Adler, Joseph Antos, James Capretta, Matthew Fiedler, Paul B. Ginsburg, Benedic Ippolito, and Alice M. Rivlin

Friday, March 1, 2019

The future of the Army in an era of great power competition

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Preschool students in Peru

New toolkit empowers teachers to challenge gender stereotypes

Sven Rooms and Martha Muhwezi

Friday, March 1, 2019

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Haidian, Beijing, China

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New Delhi, Delhi, India