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The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington

Republicans’ wrong approach to tackling Medicaid

Alice M. Rivlin · Tuesday, July 25, 2017

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Infrastructure

Modernizing government’s approach to transportation and land use data: Challenges and opportunities

Adie Tomer and Ranjitha Shivaram

Thursday, July 20, 2017

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U.S. Congress

What to expect when you’re expecting a reconciliation bill

Molly E. Reynolds

Monday, July 24, 2017

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko shake hands during a joint news conference following a meeting of the NATO-Ukraine Commission in Kiev, Ukraine, July 10, 2017. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko - RTX3ATLR

Ukraine

Will Ukraine join NATO? A course for disappointment

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Opposition supporters attend a rally to pay tribute to victims of violence during protests against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela, July 24, 2017. REUTERS/Ueslei Marcelino TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTX3CR9T

Venezuela

Between a rock and a hard place: Economic sanctions on Venezuela

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Latest Research

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Access to Health Care

Working Paper | Missing female patients: An analysis of gender ratios from a tertiary care hospital in New Delhi, India

Shamika Ravi, Mudit Kapoor, Deepak Agarwal, Randeep Guleria, and Ambuj Roy

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Metro trains arrive in the Gallery Place-Chinatown station ahead of a 29-hour shutdown for an emergency safety investigation of power cabling of the entire Washington Metro system in Washington March 15, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo - RTX2COKV

Transportation Industry

Transport pricing and accessibility

Kenneth Gwilliam

June 2017

A statue of George Washington stands across from the New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 21, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly - RTX2W2NM

Financial Institutions

Bank capital requirements contribute to growth and stability

Monday, July 24, 2017

A family member of a miner trapped underground in the Pike River coal mine sits outside a progress briefing by mine authorities and police in Greymouth on New Zealand's west coast November 23, 2010. Efforts to rescue 29 men trapped in a New Zealand coal mine suffered yet another setback on Tuesday after a robot sent into the main shaft broke down, adding to agonising delays as hopes for survivors faded. REUTERS/Tim Wimborne (NEW ZEALAND - Tags: DISASTER BUSINESS) - RTXUXV9

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

The geography of desperation in America

Carol Graham, Sergio Pinto, and John Juneau II

Monday, July 24, 2017

A medical worker administers polio drops to an infant at a hospital during the pulse polio immunization programme in Agartala, capital city of India's northeastern state of Tripura, January 18, 2015. The programme aims to immunize every child in the country under five years of age with the oral polio vaccine. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey (INDIA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) - RTR4LV6Y

Access to Health Care

Brookings India Health Monitor

Shamika Ravi and Mudit Kapoor

Friday, July 21, 2017

Events

Development Seminar @ Brookings India: America’s Economic Anxiety

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

NATO at a crossroads: Next steps for the trans-Atlantic alliance

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Procedure and politics in the 115th Congress

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

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Blog Posts

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, accompanied by Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Senator John Barrasso (R-WY), speaks with reporters following the successful vote to open debate on a health care bill on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 25, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein - RTX3CVWW

FixGov

The Obamacare repeal and the illusion of public opinion

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Pro-government protesters chant slogans while holding Egyptian national flags as they walk near the seaside on the fifth anniversary of the uprising that ended the 30-year reign of Hosni Mubarak in Alexandria, Egypt, January 25, 2016. REUTERS/Asmaa Waguih - RTX23Y78

Future Development

Inequality of opportunity in Egypt

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Senator Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walks to the Senate floor of the U.S. Capitol after unveiling a draft bill on healthcare in Washington, U.S. June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RTS18890

Up Front

Revised Senate health care bill doesn’t fix concerns about state innovation waivers

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

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Books

Foreign Service: Five Decades on the Frontlines of American Dipl

Foreign Service

By James Dobbins; Foreword by Robert Zoellick

2017

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Loan Sharks

By Charles R. Geisst

2017

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Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2017

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A South Korean employee of a security firm reacts in front of a graph showing stock price in Seoul March 11, 2003. South Korean shares fell for the sixth straight day on Tuesday, ending at 17-month lows, hit by falls in SK group shares, which tumbled after prosecutors found $1.2 billion in accounting irregularities at the group's trading unit, SK Global. Pictures of the Year 2003 REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon Pictures of the month March 2003 KKH/CP - RTRJR77

Marking the 20th anniversary of the Asian financial crisis

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

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

The essential scan: Top findings in health policy research

Will Palmisano, Margaret Darling, Stephanie Hedt, and Paul B. Ginsburg

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Maasai bride Baiera wears traditional bead necklaces during her wedding in Olepolos village

How girls’ education intersects with Maasai culture in Kenya

Damaris Seleina Parsitau

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

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Soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army 1st Amphibious Mechanized Infantry Division prepare to provide Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen with a demonstration of their capablities during a visit to the unit in China on July 12, 2011. Mullen is on a three-day trip to the country meeting with counterparts and Chinese leaders. (DoD photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Chad J. McNeeley/Released)

Interview with Dhruva Jaishankar on the India-China stand-off

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

WIFIA Dam

Despite federal infrastructure cuts, EPA’s WIFIA water loan program holds promise

Monday, July 24, 2017

Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) fighters are seen as they rest in a building in the border town of Jarablus, Syria, August 31, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RTX2NQ7U

Islamists on Islamism today: An interview with Omar Mushaweh of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood

Shadi Hamid and William McCants

Monday, July 24, 2017

Brookings Around The World

The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution

Washington, D.C., USA

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Brookings Doha

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Brookings Tsinghua

Haidian, Beijing, China

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Brookings India

New Delhi, Delhi, India