The House Democrats’ state and local tax proposal: Bad policy and bad politics

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The House Democrats’ state and local tax proposal: Bad policy and bad politics

William A. Galston

Monday, November 29, 2021

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TechTank Podcast Episode 33: How to build back better with telehealth

Monday, November 29, 2021

Chongqing,China- April 12th,2021: Chinese government start to test electronic currency of RMB, Chinese Yuan in several cities of china,

China’s payments u-turn: Government over technology

Monday, November 29, 2021

Community historian Morris “Dino” Robinson, who helped shape the Evanston’s reparations initiative, points to the borders of the Fifth Ward, which was the area of Evanston the city’s Black citizens were forced to move to due to redlining between 1919 and 1969, in Evanston, Illinois, U.S March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Eileen T. Meslar

When is a public policy racist?

William G. Gale and Fred Dews

Friday, November 26, 2021

A vertical gas flaring furnace is seen in Ughelli, Delta State, Nigeria September 16, 2020. Picture taken September 16, 2020. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Nigeria’s Petroleum Industry Act: Addressing old problems, creating new ones

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

A Brighton High School senior waits for the graduation ceremony being held at Fenway Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Boston Red Sox for greater safety during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., June 15, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Growing up as a Black Male Student in White Suburbia: What I learned

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

China's first domestically-built polar research vessel and icebreaker "Xuelong 2" prepares to take water at Jiangnan Shipyard in Chongming's Changxing Island in Shanghai, China, 10 September 2018.China's first wholly domestically conceived and built icebreaker Xuelong 2 took to the sea on Monday (10 September 2018) at Jiangnan Shipyard in Chongming's Changxing Island. Construction of the vessel began in December 20, 2016. Xuelong 2 will be put into service in the first half of 2019. It will team up with another icebreaker Xuelong on polar expeditions next year. The vessel is 122.5 meters in length and 22.3 meters wide, with a draught of 7.85 meters and displacement of 13,990 tons. It can reach 15 knots and it has a range of 20,000 nautical miles. Xuelong 2 can break 1.5-meter ice with a thick covering of snow at speeds of 2 to 3 knots. Its combines the requirements of a new-generation research vessel with environmental protection having an azimuthing electric propulsion system. Researchers can make observations of environmental elements like the ocean water, sea ice and polar air from the vessel and take samples from the marine environment in connection with climate change.No Use China. No Use France.

The Polar Silk Road will be cleared with Chinese icebreakers

Jeremy Greenwood

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

A man grinds grains at a store in Maiduguri, Nigeria October 31, 2021. Picture taken October 31, 2021. REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

The COVID-19 crisis isn’t over for workers in Nigeria

Jonathan Lain and Tara Vishwanath

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

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Hutchins Roundup: Firm uncertainty, standardized test scores, and more

Sophia Campbell, Lorena Hernandez Barcena, Nasiha Salwati, and Louise Sheiner

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Handout photo dated December 30, 2020 of USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) conducts routine underway operations in support of stability and security for a free and open Indo-Pacific. Two U.S. warships sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait on Thursday drawing protest from Beijing, the second such mission this month and coming almost two weeks after a Chinese aircraft carrier group used the same waterway. The U.S. Navy said the guided missile destroyers USS John S. McCain and USS Curtis Wilbur had "conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit Dec. 31 in accordance with international law". U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Markus Castaneda via ABACAPRESS.COM

The status quo in the Taiwan Strait is edging toward conflict. Here’s how to stop it.

Steven M. Goldstein

Wednesday, November 24, 2021