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FILE PHOTO: U.S. Senator Kamala Harris launches her campaign for President of the United States at a rally at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in her hometown of Oakland, California, U.S., January 27, 2019. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage/File Photo

VP pick Kamala Harris and the campaign road ahead

Camille Busette and Makada Henry-Nickie · Tuesday, August 11, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump attends a news conference in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., July 14, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

COVID-19 second stimulus package standoff

Brian Katulis and Aaron Klein

Monday, August 10, 2020

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Palestinians ride a horse-drawn cart transporting aid supplies distributed by UNRWA at Beach refugee camp amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis, in Gaza City June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

Migrants, Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons

COVID-19 and the chance to reform US refugee policy

Kemal Kirişci and Sam Denney

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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Business & Industry

Two local leaders discuss how smarter federal policy can save rural America during COVID-19

Tracy Hadden Loh and Anthony F. Pipa

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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Members of civil society activists, distribute face masks to the villagers during a campaign spreading the awareness of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Parwiz

U.S. Foreign Policy

Want to reduce global fragility? Empower civil society

Patrick W. Quirk and Richmond Blake

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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Latest Research

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law during a hearing on "Online Platforms and Market Power", in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Mandel Ngan/Pool via REUTERS

Telecommunications & Internet

Utilities for democracy: Why and how the algorithmic infrastructure of Facebook and Google must be regulated

Josh Simons and Dipayan Ghosh

August 2020

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Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Income trajectories from 1967 to 2016

Monday, August 10, 2020

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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Lost art: Measuring COVID-19’s devastating impact on America’s creative economy

Richard Florida and Michael Seman

August 11, 2020

Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang members wait to be escorted upon their arrival at the maximum-security jail in Zacatecoluca, El Salvador, June 22, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Cabezas

Crime & Criminal Justice

Bargaining with the devil to avoid hell? Negotiations with criminal groups in Latin America and the Caribbean

Vanda Felbab-Brown

July 2020

medical marijuana

Report

Marijuana liberalization and public finance: A capital market perspective on a public health policy

Stephanie Cheng, Gus De Franco, and Pengkai Lin

Thursday, August 6, 2020

Events

Black Households & COVID-19: Impediments to Economic Security

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

Upcoming Policy 2020 Event

Back to school amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Balancing students’ right to education against public health

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Why the world is at a turning point with artificial intelligence and what to do about it

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

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Blog Posts

Congressional staffers confer as Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos testifies via video conference during a hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law on "Online Platforms and Market Power", in the Rayburn House office Building on Capitol Hill, in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2020. Graeme Jennings/Pool via REUTERS

TechTank

The tech antitrust hearings are over: What’s next for enforcement?

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

People look at data on their mobiles as background with internet wire cables on switch hub is projected in this picture illustration taken May 30, 2018. Picture taken May 30, 2018. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration

TechStream

Using differential privacy to harness big data and preserve privacy

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

School child wearing mask

Education Plus Development

Adapting to learning needs in the wake of COVID-19 using data and evidence

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

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Books

Cvr: Turning Point

Turning Point

By Darrell M. West and John R. Allen

2020

Cover: Know Your Price

Know Your Price

By Andre M. Perry

2020

Cvr: China 2049

China 2049

By David Dollar, Yiping Huang, and Yang Yao

2020

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Rep. John Lewis (D-GA) speaks ahead of a vote on two articles of impeachment against U.S. President Donald Trump on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., in a still image from video December 18, 2019. House TV via REUTERS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY.

President's Corner

Brookings President John R. Allen statement on the passing of John R. Lewis

Saturday, July 18, 2020

A Palestinian man herds sheep near a construction site at a Jewish settlement near Jerusalem known to Israelis as Har Homa and to Palestinians as Jabal Abu Ghneim December 19, 2011. Israel began seeking tenders to build more than 1,000 homes in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, part of a settlement plan it accelerated after Palestinians won recognition by a U.N. body, but a move which complicates a return to negotiations.REUTERS/Baz Ratner (POLITICS ANIMALS)

President's Corner

Stopping Israel’s annexation is a US national security interest

The Hill

Sunday, June 14, 2020

Protesters with Sanctuary DMV march by members of the US Armed Forces and an armored vehicle in downtown Washington, D.C., on June 19, 2020 amid the Coronavirus pandemic. After weeks of anti-racist and Black Lives Matter demonstrations in America and beyond, thousands of protesters again gathered in Washington on Juneteenth, commemorating the day the final slaves were freed in 1865 and marching throughout the capital. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

President's Corner

Rebuking threats to use the US military against protestors

PBS

Thursday, June 4, 2020

Protesters from Freedom Day MarchÕs movement march from The National Museum of African American History & Culture to Martin Luther King memorial and pay honor during a rally about Juneteenth 2020 today on June 19, 2020 in Washington DC, USA. (Photo by Lenin Nolly/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

President's Corner

Protests for George Floyd, police reform, and leadership

CNN

Thursday, June 4, 2020

U.S. President Donald Trump walks through Lafayette Park to visit St. John's Episcopal Church across from the White House during ongoing protests over racial inequality in the wake of the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, U.S., June 1, 2020. REUTERS/Tom Brenner

President's Corner

A Moment of National Shame and Peril—and Hope

Foreign Policy

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

Debra and Willie Sanchez from White Plains hold a sign in front of the fountain spray, as a vigil for George Floyd was held at the Renaissance Plaza in White Plains, May 29, 2020. The event was organized by WESPAC and featured a moment of silence, prayers and speeches by attendees.JUMP George Floyd White Plains

President's Corner

Condemning systemic racism

Friday, May 29, 2020

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