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Robots kill jobs. But they create jobs, too.

Robots kill jobs. But they create jobs, too.

Marcus Casey and Sarah Nzau · Monday, March 18, 2019

Ukrainian soldiers drive a military vehicle with a torn Ukrainian flag at a checkpoint near Slaviansk in eastern Ukraine July 3, 2014. About half the 130,000 residents of Slaviansk are thought to have fled since fighters who want eastern Ukraine incorporated into Russia took control of the city in April, a month after Moscow annexed the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea. Since then, government forces trying to end the rebellion in towns and cities across the Russian-speaking region have pounded separatist positions in and around Slaviansk. Picture taken July 3, 2014. REUTERS/Andrew Kravchenko/Pool (UKRAINE - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1EA7414HR01

Ukraine

Five years after Crimea’s illegal annexation, the issue is no closer to resolution

Monday, March 18, 2019

People file out of the Javits center after campaign chair John Podesta's speech at the Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Hillary Clinton election night rally in New York, NU.S., November 9, 2016. REUTERS/Carlos Barria - HT1ECB90L2BVY

Demographics & Population

In selecting Milwaukee for their 2020 convention, Democrats embrace their demographic past

William H. Frey

March 13, 2019

Workers are seen at their workstations on the floor of an outsourcing centre in Bangalore, February 29, 2012. India's IT industry, with Bangalore firms forming the largest component, is now worth an annual $100 billion and growing 14 percent per year, one of the few bright spots in an economy blighted by policy stagnation and political instability. Picture taken on February 29, 2012. To match Insight INDIA-OUTSOURCING/ REUTERS/Vivek Prakash (INDIA - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E8450SWY01

Post

Schooling and skills reduce gender wage gaps—but not completely

Dileni Gunewardena, Elizabeth M. King, and Alexandria Valerio

Monday, March 18, 2019

Teacher Jenna Rosenberg speaks to her first grade class at Walsh Elementary School in Chicago, Illinois, March 1, 2013. According to officials in U.S. President Barack Obama's administration, possible consequences of impending across-the-board U.S. government budget cuts, Illinois will lose approximately $33.4 million in education, putting around 460 teacher and aide jobs at risk that would receive funding. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES - Tags: EDUCATION POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1E9320AA101

Education

The diversity gap for public school teachers is actually growing across generations

Michael Hansen and Diana Quintero

Thursday, March 7, 2019

Latest Research

Russia's President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with China's President Xi Jinping during a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina November 30, 2018. Picture taken November 30, 2018. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. - RC1AB6752940

Report

The strongmen strike back

March 2019

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shake hands after their meeting in Jerusalem February 19, 2019. Ariel Schalit /Pool via REUTERS *** Local Caption *** - RC16E22BC130

Report

Is Israel in democratic decline?

Tamara Cofman Wittes and Yael Mizrahi-Arnaud

March 2019

Firefighters work to fix a leak in the water infrastructure beneath the pavement outside a home in Los Angeles, California, U.S., March 22, 2017. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - RC12520EEAE0

Infrastructure

Creating a new marketplace for resilient infrastructure investment

Joseph Kane and Adie Tomer

Monday, March 18, 2019

Bitcoins created by enthusiast Mike Caldwell are seen in a photo illustration at his office in Sandy, Utah, September 17, 2013. Caldwell produces physical coins Bitcoins, which have been around since 2008, are a form of electronic money that can be exchanged without using traditional banking or money transfer systems. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY) - GF2E99H1A2P01

Regulatory Policy

It’s time to strengthen the regulation of crypto-assets

Timothy G. Massad

Monday, March 18, 2019

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador looks on before a speech marking the first 100 days of his presidency at the National Palace in Mexico City, Mexico March 11, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido - RC183BA26AA0

Mexico

The ills and cures of Mexico’s democracy

Vanda Felbab-Brown

March 2019

Events

Defense spending in the 50 states

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

A conversation with departing FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb on his tenure and policy reforms

2:30 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Lessons from the 2019 Asian Cup: Sports, Globalization, and Politics in the Arab World

6:00 PM - 7:30 PM AST

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Blog Posts

Cattle run as a helicopter flies overhead along the Komadougou Yobe river which separates Niger and Nigeria, outside Damasak March 24, 2015. Boko Haram militants have kidnapped more than 400 women and children from the northern Nigerian town of Damasak that was freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad, residents said on Tuesday. Nigerian, Chadian and Niger forces have driven militants out of a string of towns in simultaneous offensives over the past month. REUTERS/Joe Penney - GF10000037002

Africa in focus

Local institutions can mitigate climate-related conflict in the Sahel

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye

Monday, March 18, 2019

Migrants are seen as they are rescued by Libyan coast guards in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Libya, January 15, 2018. Picture taken January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Hani Amara - RC18027683D0

Future Development

The continuing tragedy of migrants in Libya

Monday, March 18, 2019

An attendent cleans the carpet next to U.S. and Chinese national flags before a news conference for the 6th round of U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, July 10, 2014. REUTERS/Jason Lee (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS) - GM1EA7A1AO901

Order from Chaos

Where progress with China is most likely—and where it isn’t

Monday, March 18, 2019

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Books

Front Cover: Divided Politics, Divided Nation

Upcoming

Divided Politics, Divided Nation

By Darrell M. West

2019

From Gutenberg to Google

By Tom Wheeler

2019

Cover: The Senkaku Paradox

Upcoming

The Senkaku Paradox

By Michael E. O’Hanlon

2019

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India needs to change the thermal power story to survival of the fittest, not luckiest

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

A worker pulls a roll of flags of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) party kept for drying at a flag manufacturing factory, ahead of the 2019 general elections, in Ahmedabad, India, March 15, 2019. REUTERS/Amit Dave - RC120850C5B0

India’s role as a democracy in the liberal international order

Torrey Taussig and Dhruva Jaishankar

Tuesday, March 19, 2019

Supporters of opposition Nationalist Kuomintang Party (KMT) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Han Kuo-yu, react during a campaign rally for the local elections, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan November 23, 2018. REUTERS/Tyrone Siu - RC19262F3F30

Democracy, the China challenge, and the 2020 elections in Taiwan

Monday, March 18, 2019

U.S.-Mexican security cooperation: The opportunities and challenges ahead

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Students walk past Wilson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S., September 20, 2018. Picture taken on September 20, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Drake - RC131D7A3900

Putting the college admissions scandal in context

Sandy Baum and Michael S. McPherson

Monday, March 18, 2019

The U.S. Mexico border is shown with Juarez, Mexico on left and pom the right El Paso, Texas, U.S. June 18, 2018. REUTERS/Mike Blake - RC1F8EC9C000

Ernesto Zedillo on globalization, NAFTA and the wall

David Dollar and Ernesto Zedillo

Monday, March 18, 2019

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