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How the FCC lost a year in “the race to 5G”

Tom Wheeler · Friday, June 14, 2019

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Higher Education

…And Justice for All: Community colleges serving the middle class

Richard V. Reeves and Katherine Guyot

Thursday, June 13, 2019

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Middle East & North Africa

The cancellation of Algeria’s elections is an opportunity for democratization

Tuesday, June 4, 2019

A worker inspects solar panels at a solar Dunhuang, 950km (590 miles) northwest of Lanzhou, Gansu Province September 16, 2013. China is pumping investment into wind power, which is more cost-competitive than solar energy and partly able to compete with coal and gas. China is the world's biggest producer of CO2 emissions, but is also the world's leading generator of renewable electricity. Environmental issues will be under the spotlight during a working group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which will meet in Stockholm from September 23-26. REUTERS/Carlos Barria BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - GF20000056392

Climate Change

Will the G-20 provide the urgent leadership needed on climate action?

Amar Bhattacharya

Friday, June 14, 2019

Detroit

Cities & Regions

What do Midwest working-class voters want and need?

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Latest Research

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Report

Assessment of transversal competencies: Current tools in the Asian region

Esther Care, Alvin Vista, and Helyn Kim

Friday, June 14, 2019

Report

The Fiscal Ship as a teaching tool

Vivien Lee, Finn Schuele, and Louise Sheiner

Friday, June 14, 2019

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Cybersecurity

Democratic Defense Against Disinformation 2.0

Alina Polyakova and Daniel Fried

June 2019

A boat sails past DanTysk wind farm, 90 kilometres west of Esbjerg

Report

Aligning G-20 infrastructure investment with climate goals and the 2030 Agenda

Amar Bhattacharya, Minji Jeong, Kevin P. Gallagher, Miquel Muñoz Cabré, and Xinyue Ma

Thursday, June 13, 2019

A group of Doctors meet in the cardiac step-down area of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi

Health Care Policy

Three ways to make health insurance auto-enrollment work

Christen Linke Young

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Events

China’s payment system: Revolution, evolution, or passing fad?

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

Is bipartisan support for infrastructure reform a myth?

9:30 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

Arab Spring 2.0? The shifting sands threatening MENA politics

7:00 PM - 8:30 PM AST

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Blog Posts

Power lines and internet cables are seen in a street in Bangkok, Thailand February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Jorge Silva - RC1A2B2B6550

Order from Chaos

The age of interdependence: Global digital cooperation in the 21st century

Emilie Kimball and Jesse I. Kornbluth

Friday, June 14, 2019

invoice

USC-Brookings Schaeffer on Health Policy

The Trump administration’s final HRA rule: Similar to the proposed but some notable choices

Christen Linke Young, Matthew Fiedler, and Jason Levitis

Friday, June 14, 2019

Preschool children in a classroom for story time.

Brown Center Chalkboard

Does Head Start work? The debate over the Head Start Impact Study, explained

Friday, June 14, 2019

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Books

Front Cover: Divided Politics, Divided Nation

Divided Politics, Divided Nation

By Darrell M. West

2019

From Gutenberg to Google

From Gutenberg to Google

By Tom Wheeler

2019

Cover: The Senkaku Paradox

The Senkaku Paradox

By Michael E. O’Hanlon

2019

Brookings Around The World

The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution

Washington, D.C., USA

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Brookings Doha

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Brookings Tsinghua

Haidian, Beijing, China

Brookings India

Brookings India

New Delhi, Delhi, India