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We’re almost out of time: The alarming IPCC climate report and what to do next

Nathan Hultman · Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia is taunting Trump

Friday, October 12, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a Make America Great Again rally in Richmond, Kentucky, U.S., October 13, 2018. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC1F026013D0

Middle Class

The middle class needs a tax cut: Trump didn’t give it to them

Isabel V. Sawhill and Christopher Pulliam

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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Courts & Law

What’s happening with the ethics complaints against Brett Kavanaugh?

Russell Wheeler

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

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2018 Midterms

Will changing demographics affect the 2018 midterms?

William H. Frey

Monday, October 15, 2018

Latest Research

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Sub-Saharan Africa

Mobilization of tax revenues in Africa

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Dhruv Gandhi

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Supporters of Positive Money hold up balloons in front of the Bank of England during a demonstration to demand quantitative easing which favours people instead of large financial institutions, in the City of London, in Britain November 3, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls - LR1ECB30V9J9T

International Monetary System

Unconventional monetary policies in the euro area, Japan, and the United Kingdom

Giovanni Dell’Arricia, Pau Rabanal, and Damiano Sandri

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

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Monetary Policy

Outside the box: Unconventional monetary policy in the Great Recession and beyond

Kenneth N. Kuttner

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Betsy DeVos testifies before the Senate Health, Education and Labor Committee confirmation hearing to be next Secretary of Education on Capitol Hill

Education

Betsy DeVos and her cone of silence on for-profit colleges

David Whitman and Arne Duncan

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Atlantic City

Housing Markets & Finance

HUD can’t fix exclusionary zoning by withholding CDBG funds

Monday, October 15, 2018

Events

Enemy of the people

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM EDT

How will values shape U.S.-China competition?

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

A conversation with CMS Administrator Seema Verma

3:00 PM - 4:40 PM EDT

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Blog Posts

President Keïta and Brookings President John R. Allen discussed the nexus between security and development

Africa in focus

A conversation with President Keïta on security and economic development in Mali and the Sahel region

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

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Future Development

Africa: The last frontier for eradicating extreme poverty

Jasmin Baier and Kristofer Hamel

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

A student uses a driving simulator for civil engineering machines during a visit of the French President to The School of Application to the Trades of Public Works (EATP), which is devoted to apprenticeship and vocational training in Egletons, France, October 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ludovic Marin/Pool - RC1A228984D0

The Avenue

How work-based learning connects students with mentors and experience

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

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Books

The Future of Work

By Darrell M. West

2018

Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2018

Diversity Explosion

By William H. Frey

2018

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Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House after the president accepted Haley's resignation in Washington, U.S., October 9, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC1B33F34810

Hang on and hope: What to expect from Trump’s foreign policy now that Nikki Haley is departing

October 14, 2018

Financial tools for US policy towards Nicaragua and Venezuela: A conversation with Treasury Assistant Secretary Marshall Billingslea

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

French President Emmanuel Macron greets Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel as they arrive at an European Union leaders summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 28, 2018. REUTERS/Eva Plevier - RC18630AEA20

Why greater European autonomy is good for the United States

Alina Polyakova and Benjamin Haddad

October 17, 2018

Trump-driven polarization reflects divergent views of America’s future

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

40 years after deregulation, remaining challenges for airlines and public policy

10:00 AM - 12:30 PM EDT

Kids sitting on the floor

How do you scale spirit?

Chavi Jain, Moitshepi Matsheng, and Jenny Perlman Robinson

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Brookings Around The World

The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution

Washington, D.C., USA

Brookings Doha

Brookings Doha

Brookings Tsinghua

Brookings Tsinghua

Haidian, Beijing, China

Brookings India

Brookings India

New Delhi, Delhi, India