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U.S. President Donald Trump boards Air Force One after his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore June 12, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC13889AA630

Trump’s America does not care

Robert Kagan · Sunday, June 17, 2018

Gao Haibao, looks at stock information on his mobile phone as he climbs the stairs to his apartment.

China

China’s social credit system spreads to more daily transactions

Jack Karsten and Darrell M. West

Monday, June 18, 2018

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Education

Taking attendance seriously in the new Civil Rights Data Collection

Lauren Bauer, Phyllis Jordan, Hedy N. Chang, and Robert Balfanz

Monday, June 18, 2018

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Executive Branch

As Trump’s zero-tolerance immigration policy backfires, Republicans are in jeopardy

William A. Galston

Monday, June 18, 2018

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Global Economy

Global Metro Monitor 2018

Max Bouchet, Sifan Liu, Joseph Parilla, and Nader Kabbani

June, 2018

Latest Research

Fiber cables

Infrastructure

The FCC and cities: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Friday, June 15, 2018

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Taxation

Effects of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: A preliminary analysis

William G. Gale, Hilary Gelfond, Aaron Krupkin, Mark Mazur, and Eric Toder

Thursday, June 14, 2018

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Arms Control

Safeguarding the heavens: The United States and the future of norms of behavior in outer space

June 2018

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Workforce Development

Renewing the water workforce: Improving water infrastructure and creating a pipeline to opportunity

Joseph Kane and Adie Tomer

June, 2018

Officials unveil the newly constructed Sandy Hook Elementary School, including this second grade classroom, built to replace the building torn down after a gunman shot dead 20 young children and six educators in a 2012 massacre, in Newtown, Connecticut, U.S. July 29, 2016. REUTERS/Michelle McLoughlin - D1BETSKLLIAA

Education

What works vs. What we can evaluate

Thursday, June 14, 2018

Events

Black Lives Matter: Race, state violence, and representation in the United States

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

2018 Aid Transparency Index: Progress to date and new frontiers of aid and development data

9:30 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

The infrastructure jobs opportunity

9:00 AM - 11:00 AM EDT

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Blog Posts

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FixGov

SCOTUS as Lucy van Pelt: The court once again pulls the ball out from under hopeful reformers

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

A nurse chats with a woman

Education Plus Development

How outlawing female genital mutilation in Kenya has driven it underground and led to its medicalization

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Palestinian refugee women sit if front their homes during the holy month of Ramadan, in Al-Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp, near Amman, Jordan, May 29, 2018. Reuters/Muhammad Hamed - RC19116CA0A0

Order from Chaos

When refugee displacement drags on, is self-reliance the answer?

Elizabeth Ferris

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

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Books

The Future of Work

By Darrell M. West

2018

Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2018

Upcoming

Diversity Explosion

By William H. Frey

2018

More

Randomistas and the importance of random-assignment studies

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Syrian migrants walk on a motorway to reach the Greek border after they left from the main bus terminal in Istanbul, Turkey, September 21, 2015. Hundreds of migrants attempt to walk from Istanbul to the western city of Edirne, on Turkey's Greek border. REUTERS/Huseyin Aldemir - LR2EB9L0PSV9Q

Syrian refugees in Turkey: Beyond the numbers

Kemal Kirişci, Jessica Brandt, and M. Murat Erdoğan

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Carol Graham honored as distinguished researcher for happiness and quality-of-life issues

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Cleveland

The race for economic opportunity is about to begin. Who is ready?

Kevin Alin and Peter Truog

Monday, June 18, 2018

Refugee schoolchildren attend a lesson in a classroom on the first day of the new school

Are impact bonds and outcome funds a solution to the global learning crisis?

Emily Gustafsson-Wright and Izzy Boggild-Jones

Monday, June 18, 2018

U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions speaks during a visit to the U.S. Mexico border wall for a press conference with Immigration and Customs Enforcement Deputy Director Thomas D. Homan, discussing immigration enforcement actions of the Trump Administration near San Diego, California, U.S. May 7, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake - HP1EE571L6BQV

Amid turmoil on the border, new DOJ policy encourages immigration judges to cut corners

Russell Wheeler

Monday, June 18, 2018

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Haidian, Beijing, China

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New Delhi, Delhi, India