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Tomorrow’s Silk Road

By Jacques Pelkmans and Joseph Francois

2016

Phone showing social media mobile app icons of Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Telegram, Twitter on display iPhone. Moscow, Russia - December 5, 2020

Regulatory Policy

How to fix social media? Start with independent research.

Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 20: Senate Appropriations Committee member Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) questions members of the Biden administration during a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on April 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. Biden cabinet members, including Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, testified about the American Jobs Plan, the administration's $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan that has yet to win over a single Republican in Congress. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Pool/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Planet Policy

Republicans in Congress are out of step with the American public on climate

Monday, May 10, 2021

A mineworker returns at the end of an underground shift at the Harmony Gold Mine's Doornkop shaft near Johannesburg, South Africa. A mineworker returns at the end of an underground shift at the Harmony Gold Mine's Doornkop shaft near Johannesburg, South Africa August 17, 2005. South Africa's gold mines are back in full production after the end last week of the first industry-wide industrial strike in 18 years, with firms hoping they may be able to make up some lost production. Picture taken August 17, 2005. REUTERS/Mike Hutchings

Africa in Focus

Digitalizing Africa’s mines

Friday, December 3, 2021

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally at Ramlila ground in New Delhi, India, May 8, 2019. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi

Op-Ed

The democratic threat to democracy

Thursday, January 6, 2022

Port-au-Prince, Haiti.- In the April 24, 2020 file photo, children in Haiti try to educate themselves amid the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). The socioeconomic effects of the coronavirus pandemic could set back "decades" the progress made in the education of girls and adolescents in Latin America and the Caribbean, many of which may "never return to the classroom", as it has warned this Tuesday, International Plan. The NGO estimates that currently some 500 million children and young people around the world are not receiving distance education, "something that is having devastating consequences in Latin America and the Caribbean", where more than 95 percent of minors have remained outside of classrooms without many of them being able to follow classes online.

Podcast Episode

What’s the state of global girls’ education during COVID?

Christina Kwauk and Adrianna Pita

Friday, October 9, 2020

A man distributes food to residents living in a slum on the banks of Yamuna river, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in New Delhi, India, April 29, 2020. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis

Order from Chaos

How is the coronavirus outbreak affecting China’s relations with India?

Thursday, April 30, 2020

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Up Front

India 2024: An interdependent China and India

Ananth Krishnan

Friday, May 17, 2019

The Care19 mobile app, which the governors of North Dakota and South Dakota have asked residents to download to assist in contact tracing during the global outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen on a phone, U.S. April 24, 2020. REUTERS/Paresh Dave

TechStream

The dangers of tech-driven solutions to COVID-19

Julie E. Cohen, Woodrow Hartzog, and Laura Moy

Wednesday, June 17, 2020

To combat the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, covid-19, the Trackvirus application has been developed in Israel to consult in real time the routes taken by infected people. Monday April 27, 2020.Pour lutter contre la propagation de la pandemie du coronavirus, covid-19, l application Trackvirus a ete develope en israel pour consulter en temps reel les itineraires emprunte par les personnes infectees. Lundi 27 Avril 2020.NO USE FRANCE

TechStream

A practical guide for COVID-19 app-makers

Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Facebook's Stretch, Twitter's Edgett, and Google's Salgado testify before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections, in Washington

TechTank

Using “public interest algorithms” to tackle the problems created by social media algorithms

Wednesday, November 1, 2017

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally at Muskegon County Airport in Muskegon, Michigan U.S., October 17, 2020. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

TechStream

How Trump impacts harmful Twitter speech: A case study in three tweets

Megan Brown and Zeve Sanderson

Thursday, October 22, 2020

NASAs InSight spacecraft, destined for the Elysium Planitia region located in Mars northern hemisphere, undergoes final preparations at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, U.S., April 6, 2018. REUTERS/Gene Blevins - RC16FA6251B0

Order from Chaos

Experts offer their views on creating a Space Force

Friday, August 10, 2018

A visitor examines a Russian rocket-propelled grenade launcher RPG-29 during the Russia-Africa Economic Forum Exhibition on the sidelines of the Russia-Africa Summit and Economic Forum in the Black sea resort of Sochi, Russia, October 24, 2019. Sergei Chirikov/Pool via REUTERS - RC1A50BA75C0

Africa in Focus

What does Russia really want from Africa?

Thursday, November 14, 2019

The Private Kit mobile app, which aims to help authorities with contact tracing efforts to curb the spread of a novel coronavirus, seen on a phone in this picture illustration taken April 9, 2020. REUTERS/Paresh Dave/Illustration

TechStream

Contact-tracing apps are not a solution to the COVID-19 crisis

Ashkan Soltani, Ryan Calo, and Carl Bergstrom

Monday, April 27, 2020