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How cities and states are responding to COVID-19

Amy Liu, Mark Muro, and Fred Dews · Friday, April 3, 2020

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

We are already in a recession: Can we make it a short one?

Friday, April 3, 2020

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March 11, 2020; Lansing, MI , USA; Michigan State University senior Yue Yang walks past the John Hannah Administration Building Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in East Lansing, Mich. "The president made a good decision, everyone should just be safe and pay attention," she said. The university will close person-to-person classes until April 20 and conduct classes online to minimize the potential spread of the coronavirus. "My parents worry about me but I'll be alright." Mandatory Credit: Matthew Dae Smith/Lansing State Journal via USA TODAY NETWORK

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Families, Communities, and Education

8 recommendations for universities and professors during the coronavirus pandemic

Friday, April 3, 2020

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New York City Police officer with face mask on Fifth Avenue during the coronavirus pandemic in New York City, NY, USA on April 1, 2020. New York City has become the epicenter of coronavirus in the U.S with over 47,000 cases. The pandemic has forced millions of New Yorkers into their homes as local and state government enforce another 30 day stay-at-home order to try and flatten the curve. Photo by Charles Guerin/ABACAPRESS.COM

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The military, policing, and COVID-19

John R. Allen, John Donohue, Colonel Rick Fuentes, Paul Goldenberg, and Michael E. O’Hanlon

April 2020

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Medical staff from Fundacion Jimenez Diaz hospital react as neighbours applaud from their balconies in support for healthcare workers, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Madrid, Spain, March 30, 2020. REUTERS/Sergio Perez

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Don’t forget to thank immigrants, too

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

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Latest Research

Drilling equipment is seen at the Sindbad oil field near the Iraqi-Iranian border in Basra, Iraq April 23, 2018. Picture taken April 23, 2018. REUTERS/Essam Al-Sudani

Report

What drives successful economic diversification in resource-rich countries?

Addisu Lashitew, Michael Ross, and Eric Werker

Friday, April 3, 2020

An artist works on a boarded up River Pig Saloon in Portland, Ore., on March 24, 2020. Yesterday Governor Kate Brown issued a statewide executive order to stay home except for essential needs as more extreme social distancing measures aim to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and flatten the curve. (Photo by Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

How local leaders can stave off a small business collapse from COVID-19

Joseph Parilla, Sifan Liu, and Brad Whitehead

Friday, April 3, 2020

Muhammad Awais, 36, retail manager wears a disposable face mask at a safety equipment store in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, U.S., March 26, 2020. REUTERS/Stephen Yang

Report

Who are the workers already impacted by the COVID-19 recession?

Alan Berube and Nicole Bateman

Friday, April 3, 2020

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Explaining the new Fed-Treasury emergency fund

Peter Conti-Brown

Friday, April 3, 2020

Chevy's Fresh Mex restaurant manager Stephen Justice provides curb side service because the restaurant is closed to prevent the spread of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Annapolis, U.S., March 18, 2020. REUTERS/Mary F. Calvert

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

‘A Band-Aid on a gunshot wound’: How the restaurant industry is responding to COVID-19 relief

Annelies Goger and Tracy Hadden Loh

Thursday, April 2, 2020

Events

Webinar: Former Fed Chair Ben Bernanke weighs in on the economic response to COVID-19

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Webinar: What’s being done to address the growing US digital divide

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Webinar: Addressing widespread closures in the retail and hospitality industries

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Blog Posts

A Medical Examiner's Office employee and a unit of National Guard members walk near refrigerated trailers used as morgues on East 3oth Street near the Office of the New York City Chief Medical Examiner as the city prepares for a surge of COVID-19 cases requiring medical treatment; in New York , NY, USA on Wednesday, April 1, 2020. (Photo by Albin Lohr-Jones/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Order from Chaos

We should prepare now to send U.S. armed forces to help police in hard-hit areas

John Allen, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Colonel Rick Fuentes, Paul Goldenberg, and John Donohue

Saturday, April 4, 2020

Shoppers queue at a grocery store during a nationwide 21 day lockdown in an attempt to contain the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Chatsworth near Durban, South Africa, March 31, 2020. REUTERS/Rogan Ward REFILE - CORRECTING INFORMATION TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Impacts of COVID-19 on African economies and elections updates

Christina Golubski and Payce Madden

Saturday, April 4, 2020

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA- Scenes from everyday life due to the compulsory social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 2, 2020. On Wednesday (1) Argentine authorities confirmed 79 new cases of Covid coronavirus -19, in Argentina and the number of infected amounts to 1,133.

Up Front

How to avoid a new Argentina default?

Miguel Kiguel and Eduardo Levy Yeyati

Friday, April 3, 2020

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Books

Front Cover: Divided Politics, Divided Nation

Divided Politics, Divided Nation

By Darrell M. West

2020

Cvr: Fateful Triangle

Fateful Triangle

By Tanvi Madan

2020

Cvr: The Iranian Revolution at Forty

The Iranian Revolution at Forty

Edited by Suzanne Maloney

2020

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New York City Police officer with face mask on Fifth Avenue during the coronavirus pandemic in New York City, NY, USA on April 1, 2020. New York City has become the epicenter of coronavirus in the U.S with over 47,000 cases. The pandemic has forced millions of New Yorkers into their homes as local and state government enforce another 30 day stay-at-home order to try and flatten the curve. Photo by Charles Guerin/ABACAPRESS.COM

The military, policing, and COVID-19

The Brookings Institution

Friday, April 3, 2020

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Resolving the Ghani-Abdullah impasse in Afghanistan

John Allen and Michael E. O’Hanlon

Wednesday, March 25, 2020

March 17, 2020; Detroit, MI, USA; Work goes on inside the pathology and laboratory medicine labs at the Henry Ford Hospital on W. Grand Blvd in Detroit , Michigan on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 where testing is happening for patients to see if they are positive or negative for the Coronavirus COVID-19. Mandatory Credit: Eric Seals/Detroit Free Press via USA TODAY NETWORK

COVID-19: A moment for unity

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the leader of the Taliban delegation, signs an agreement with Zalmay Khalilzad, U.S. envoy for peace in Afghanistan, at a signing agreement ceremony between members of Afghanistan's Taliban and the U.S. in Doha, Qatar February 29, 2020. REUTERS/Ibraheem al Omari

The US-Taliban peace deal: A road to nowhere

The Brookings Institution

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Afghan senior politicians and members of a Taliban delegation attend peace talks in Moscow, Russia May 30, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

Good deals — and bad ones — with the Taliban

The Brookings Institution

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

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White-Supremacist Violence Is Terrorism

The Atlantic

Monday, February 24, 2020

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