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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) and Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA), speaks with reporters following the party luncheons on Capitol Hill.

How will the Graham-Cassidy proposal affect the number of people with health insurance coverage?

Matthew Fiedler and Loren Adler · Friday, September 22, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the 72nd United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York, U.S., September 19, 2017. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson - HP1ED9J17TXSM

United Nations

A tale of three Trumps

Thursday, September 21, 2017

South Korean President Moon Jae-in delivers a speech during a session of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia September 7, 2017. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin - RC19C63CD4D0

South Korea

Caught in the middle: How the North Korean threat is ultimately Seoul’s problem

Katharine H.S. Moon

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Counter protesters rally at a cancelled No Marxism in America event in Berkeley, California, U.S. August 27, 2017. REUTERS/Kate Munsch - RC1BDEE0B810

U.S. Politics & Government

Views among college students regarding the First Amendment: Results from a new survey

John Villasenor

Monday, September 18, 2017

A worker prepares packaged products for shipment at an Amazon Fulfilment Center in Tracy, California, August 3, 2015. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith

Cities & Regions

High paying jobs alone won’t save big cities

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Latest Research

22-year-old Errol Samuels from Queens, New York, who lost the use of his legs in 2012 after a roof collapsed onto him at an off-campus house party near where he was attending college in upstate New York, walks with a ReWalk electric powered exoskeletal suit during a therapy session with Alexandra Voigt, a clinical research coordinator and therapist, at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City March 26, 2014. Made by the Israeli company Argo Medical Technologies, ReWalk is a computer controlled device that powers the hips and knees to help those with lower limb disabilities and paralysis to walk upright using crutches. Allan Kozlowski, assistant professor of Rehabilitation Medicine at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai hospital, where patients like Samuels are enrolled in his clinical trials of the ReWalk and another exoskeleton, the Ekso (Ekso Bionics) hopes machines like these will soon offer victims of paralysis new hope for a dramatically improved quality of life and mobility. The ReWalk is currently only approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use in rehabilitation facilities like at Mount Sinai, as they weigh whether to approve the device for home use as it already is in Europe. Picture taken March 26, 2014. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY HEALTH BUSINESS TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EA3S1RTR01

Public Health

Nurses as intermediaries in the promotion of community health

Stuart M Butler and Carmen Diaz

Friday, September 22, 2017

2017 Brookings-Blum Roundtable

Developing Economies

US development assistance under challenge

George Ingram and Homi Kharas

Thursday, September 21, 2017

The Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine USS Tennessee returns to Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Georgia in this February 6, 2013 handout photo. The Tennessee and 13 other Ohio-class submarines are critical elements of the U.S. nuclear deterrent but the oldest has been in service for 33 years and the end of the fleet's useful life of 42 years is in sight. Every nuclear weapons delivery system in the U.S. arsenal ? the so-called triad of bombers, ballistic missiles and submarines ? will have to be replaced in the coming 30 years. REUTERS/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class James Kimber/U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters (UNITED STATES) - Tags: MILITARY POLITICS) THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - TM3EAAK0WCJ01

Arms Control

Meeting U.S. deterrence requirements

Robert Einhorn and Steven Pifer

September 2017

Dr. Ben Robins, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire, mediates while Harrison, 5, who is autistic, plays with Kaspar, a child-sized humanoid robot designed to interact and help improve the lives of children with autism, in Stevenage, Britain January 30, 2017. REUTERS/Matthew Stockman - RC1EC1C65930

Education

Race, poverty, and interpreting overrepresentation in special education

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with his Turkish counterpart Tayyip Erdogan during a meeting in Sochi, Russia, May 3, 2017. REUTERS/Alexander Zemlianichenko/

Turkey

An ambiguous partnership: The serpentine trajectory of Turkish-Russian relations in the era of Erdoğan and Putin

Pavel K. Baev and Kemal Kirişci

September 2017

Events

How India sees the world: A discussion with Shyam Saran

4:30 PM - 6:00 PM IST

New Delhi, India

Building a secure and inclusive global financial ecosystem

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Diaspora Diplomacy, Advocacy, and Coalition-Building

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Blog Posts

Cote d'Ivoire's President Alassane Ouattara (L) is greeted by United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the U.N. Headquarters in New York City, U.S., September 17, 2017. REUTERS/Joe Penney - RC15F4B1A6F0

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: UNGA updates, cocoa export challenges, and Kenya’s full Supreme Court ruling

Friday, September 22, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (2nd L), Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (2nd R), House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (R) and other congressional leaders in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, U.S., September 6, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1AD82E6200

FixGov

A GOP nightmare: Trump and Democrats cut a deal on taxes

Friday, September 22, 2017

Order from Chaos

Why Russia’s RT should register as an agent of a foreign government

Friday, September 22, 2017

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Books

9780815730637

Beyond Snowden

By Timothy H. Edgar

2017

9780815729969

Exceptions to the Rule

By Molly E. Reynolds

2017

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Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2017

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Immigration activists and DACA recipients take part in a rally about the importance of passing a clean DREAM Act before delivering a million signatures to Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington

The reality of DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program

Friday, September 22, 2017

CDU flyers are pictured as German Chancellor Angela Merkel campaigns in Heppenheim, Germany, September 22, 2017. REUTERS/Ralph Orlowski

Germany’s 2017 elections

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Friday, September 22, 2017

Ballot papers are seen in a ballot box during the Kenya election in Gatundu in Kiambu county, Kenya August 8, 2017. REUTERS/Baz Ratner - RC18FD07A0B0

Measuring the ups and downs of governance

Daniel Kaufmann and Aart Kraay

Friday, September 22, 2017

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Charts of the week: America’s NAFTA trade, US foreign assistance, Pittsburgh’s university R&D investment

Chris McKenna and Fred Dews

Friday, September 22, 2017

Women work in Amingos fibre hair factory in Ikeja district in Lagos, December 1, 2011. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye(NIGERIA - Tags: SOCIETY BUSINESS) - GM1E7C203TF01

Figures of the week: Africa and the Global Human Capital Index

Friday, September 22, 2017

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Beyond “Amazon Idol” toward a real regional growth strategy

Mark Muro and Amy Liu

Friday, September 22, 2017

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