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"I voted" stickers are on display for voters in the U.S. presidential election at Grace Episcopal Church in The Plains, Virginia, U.S., November 8, 2016. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - HT1ECB8183K3O

Universal Voting: Your questions, our answers

E.J. Dionne, Jr., Megan Bell, Amber Herrle, Shane P. Singh, Allegra Chapman, Joshua Douglas, Miles Rapoport, and Whitney Quesenbery · Thursday, August 6, 2020

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Post

Low-income households falling further behind on student debt due to COVID-19

Jason Jabbari, Olga Kondratjeva, Mathieu Despard, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

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A view shows damaged buildings following Tuesday's blast in Beirut's port area, Lebanon August 5, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanon

Lebanon as Paradise Lost

Jeffrey Feltman

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Unemployment Insurance Extended Benefits Will Lapse Too Soon Without Policy Changes

Lauren Bauer, Wendy Edelberg, and Jana Parsons

Thursday, August 6, 2020

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A medical worker administers a nasopharyngeal swab to a man at the CORE Covid-19 testing site, a permanent testing site in the Queens borough of New York City, NY, June 25, 2020. CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) is a non-profit organization founded by actor Sean Penn, who originally started the organization in response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. (Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

U.S. Economy

State and local governments employ the highest share of essential workers. Congress is failing to protect them.

Joseph W. Kane and Adie Tomer

Monday, August 3, 2020

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Latest Research

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

Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in Manhattan, New York City, U.S., December 21, 2016. REUTERS/Andrew Kelly - RC1DF544C360

Technology & Innovation

Can AI model economic choices?

Thursday, August 6, 2020

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Regulatory Policy

Watchdogs at large

Anne Joseph O’Connell

Thursday, August 6, 2020

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Report

The Court of Justice of the European Union in Schrems II: The impact of GDPR on data flows and national security

Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Events

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

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

Black Households & COVID-19: Impediments to Economic Security

11:30 AM - 12:45 PM EDT

Addressing another COVID-19 crisis: Corruption

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

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Blog Posts

A Yanomami indian follows agents of Brazil's environmental agency in a gold mine during an operation against illegal gold mining on indigenous land, in the heart of the Amazon rainforest, in Roraima state, Brazil April 17, 2016. Picture taken April 17, 2016. REUTERS/Bruno Kelly

Up Front

Uncommon ground: The impact of natural resource corruption on indigenous peoples

Carter Squires, Kelsey Landau, and Robin J. Lewis

Friday, August 7, 2020

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Julie M. Lynch presides over courtroom 7E from a remote location via a large video monitor with video conferencing capabilities at the downtown Columbus, Ohio, courthouse on July 1, 2020. (Adam Cairns/Columbus Dispatch/TNS/ABACAPRESS.COM - NO FILM, NO VIDEO, NO TV, NO DOCUMENTARY)

TechStream

The legal and technical danger in moving criminal courts online

Thursday, August 6, 2020

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Up Front

Hutchins Roundup: PPP loans, charter schools and more

Sophia Campbell, Lorena Hernandez Barcena, and David Wessel

Thursday, August 6, 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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