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

Adie Tomer and Ranjitha Shivaram · Thursday, July 20, 2017

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to the media

Access to Health Care

On the failed health care bill

Molly E. Reynolds

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

A member of staff from Chinese government adjusts 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) - RTR3XZ0B

Economic Development

Expect more process than progress at U.S.-China Comprehensive Economic Dialogue

David Dollar and Ryan Hass

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

An employee enters the State Department in Washington, U.S., June 2, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RTX38QZN

Global Development

Tillerson’s “Listening Report” reinforces that State and USAID should be separate

Monday, July 24, 2017

Discovery Communications Wellness Center Medical Director Liz Sequeira confers with a patient at the clinic in Silver Spring, Maryland December 3, 2009.

Health Care Policy

Requirement to maintain a “single risk pool” would not contain effects of Cruz’s proposal

Matthew Fiedler

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Latest Research

Access to Health Care

Brookings India Health Monitor

Shamika Ravi and Mudit Kapoor

Friday, July 21, 2017

Students dissect owl pellets at the Excel Academy public charter school in Washington

K-12 Education

Some schools much better than others at closing achievement gaps between their advantaged and disadvantaged students

David Figlio and Krzysztof Karbownik

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Elementary students react to the Smithsonian National Zoo's three newly acquired Cheetahs while seeing them for the first time at the zoo in Washington

K-12 Education

Multiracial adolescents show no test score gap with whites

Jonathan Rothwell

Monday, July 17, 2017

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Developing Economies

TPP and India: Lessons for Future Gains

Harsha Vardhana Singh

Friday, July 14, 2017

Tulio Medina (C) and Jennifer Vivas (centre R), parents of Eliannys Vivas, who died from diphtheria, pose for a photo with two of their children at the front porch of their home in Pariaguan, Venezuela January 26, 2017. Picture taken January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Marco Bello - RTX30FRR

Developing Economies

Is a growing middle class good for the poor? Social policy in a time of globalization

Raj M. Desai and Homi Kharas

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Events

Including broadband in Trump’s infrastructure plan: Opportunities and challenges

3:00 PM - 4:15 PM EDT

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

Voting booths are seen during the New York primary elections at a polling station in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., April 19, 2016.

FixGov

Does the opening predict a wave?

Michael J. Malbin

Monday, July 24, 2017

REUTERS/Carlos Barria -- U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the G20 in Hamburg, Germany.

Up Front

Plan beats no plan: Responding to a pitch of 3% GDP growth

Friday, July 21, 2017

A visitor stands in front of flags representing different African countries during a Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Sandton, Johannesburg, December 4, 2015. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTX1X5GY

Future Development

Future Development Reads: The brittle consensus on Africa’s prospects

Friday, July 21, 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

9780815729006

Loan Sharks

By Charles R. Geisst

2017

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Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2017

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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (R) talks with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias during a parliamentary session on the collapse of Cyprus peace talks in Athens, Greece July 11, 2017. REUTERS/Costas Baltas - RTX3AZPO

To exit (to borrow from the markets) or not to exit: Greece’s new dilemma

Theodore Pelagidis

Friday, July 21, 2017

A couple look through a window during a strike called to protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela,

Crisis in Caracas, unrest in Venezuela

Dany Bahar and Fred Dews

Friday, July 21, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump looks up while signing an executive order

On the presidential pardon

Friday, July 21, 2017

People use computers at an internet cafe in the Hodan area of Mogadishu October 9, 2013. Reuters/Feisal Omar (SOMALIA - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTX14IOE

Africa in the News: Electoral tensions arise in Mali and Congo, Ivorian president reshuffles cabinet, and Somalia’s internet returns

Friday, July 21, 2017

Sahrawi students attend a class in Carlo Giuliani school at Dakhla's refugee camp, near Tindouf in southwestern Algeria April 17, 2008. REUTERS/Dani Cardona (ALGERIA) - RTR1ZLOF

Teachers’ salaries: Too many bucks for the bang?

Friday, July 21, 2017

German, U.S. and EU flags fly in front of the Reichstag building ahead of the meeting between U.S. President Obama and German Chancellor Merkel in Berlin

Assessing trans-Atlantic data protections one year after Privacy Shield

Friday, July 21, 2017

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Haidian, Beijing, China

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New Delhi, Delhi, India