Low-income households falling further behind on student debt due to COVID-19

Graduation cap on $100 bills, representing student debt

Low-income households falling further behind on student debt due to COVID-19

Jason Jabbari, Olga Kondratjeva, Mathieu Despard, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

A view shows damaged buildings following Tuesday's blast in Beirut's port area, Lebanon August 5, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Lebanon as Paradise Lost

Jeffrey Feltman

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Illustration picture shows a smartphone with Covid-19 app in Rotterdam, the Netherlands on April 19, 2020. The World Health Organisation says tracking infected people, and tracing and alerting their contacts, are vital if the disease is to be kept under control after lockdown. The government says it has received 750 applications from companies to co-operate on a 'corona app' and will draw up a shortlist over the weekend with the aim of producing a draft proposal on April 21. The app is expected to use Bluetooth technology on mobile phones to see who has been in contact with an infected person. Privacy campaigners are concerned that if the app is rolled out too quickly it will not be secure or sufficiently anonymous and have questioned its effectiveness. The governments target is for 60% of people to use the app, but in Singapore, where a voluntary app was introduced, take-up is around 20%. Photo by Robin Utrecht/ABACAPRESS.COMNo Use Netherlands. No Use Germany.

Pandemic has driven home need for collaborations in public policy between experts and administrators

Vikram Singh Mehta

Wednesday, August 5, 2020

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Caleb Kirkland, (R) gets his ballot from machine judge Pio Sancez during the primary election at Sonoma Elementary School in Las Cruces, New Mexico, U.S., June 2, 2020. REUTERS/Paul Ratje

Election night? Think again—election month might be more like it

Elaine Kamarck

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Fixed indemnity health coverage is a problematic form of “junk insurance”

Christen Linke Young and Kathleen Hannick

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Members of Indonesian labor organizations protest outside the Indonesian Parliament against the cancellation of an "omnibus bill" that aims to revise dozens of existing laws in order to ease the way for investment in Southeast Asia's largest economy in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 16, 2020. REUTERS/Ajeng Dinar Ulfiana

Historical tensions and contemporary governance challenges in Southeast Asia: The case of Indonesia

Ben Bland

August 2020

How a New York City public market is keeping a neighborhood’s ‘third place’ alive during COVID-19

Laura Scherling, Ed.D. and Lauren Margolis

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Taxing wealth transfers through an expanded estate tax

William G. Gale, Christopher Pulliam, John Sabelhaus, and Isabel V. Sawhill

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

What do we know about the expansion of K-12 computer science education?

Emiliana Vegas and Brian Fowler

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

How can the middle class flourish in the 21st century? Insights from the science of well-being

Mark Fabian

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

A social distancing reading list from the Brookings Africa Growth Initiative

Louise Fox, Lemma Senbet, Landry Signé, Amadou Sy, and Christina Golubski

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo listens while Australia's Foreign Minister Marise Payne speaks during a news conference at the U.S. Department of State following the 30th AUSMIN in Washington, D.C. July 28, 2020. Brendan Smialowski/Pool via REUTERS

In annual meeting, a new direction for US-Australia alliance

Lindsey Ford and Ashley Townshend

Tuesday, August 4, 2020

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No more status quo: A community-led action plan for addressing structural inequity during COVID-19 recovery

Hanna Love, Tunua Thrash-Ntuk, and Jennifer S. Vey

August 4, 2020

[On Joe Biden's July 2020 climate plan] [It is] ambitious but possible. In order to get this done, it depends tremendously on what happens with the congressional elections as well.

Samantha Gross Politifact Monday, August 3, 2020

The question [for NATO] now is whether Turkey is still a Western country and shares our values.

Amanda Sloat New York Times Monday, August 3, 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 13, 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 13 Avril 2020.NO USE FRANCE

Digital contact tracing and the coronavirus: Israeli and comparative perspectives

Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler and Rachel Aridor Hershkowitz

August 2020

A police officer walks amid ammunition near the scene of a shooting in Mexico City, Mexico, June 26, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Romero

Mexico’s criminal brazenness matters

Vanda Felbab-Brown

Monday, August 3, 2020

A medical worker administers a nasopharyngeal swab to a man at the CORE Covid-19 testing site, a permanent testing site in the Queens borough of New York City, NY, June 25, 2020. CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort) is a non-profit organization founded by actor Sean Penn, who originally started the organization in response to the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti. (Anthony Behar/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

State and local governments employ the highest share of essential workers. Congress is failing to protect them.

Joseph W. Kane and Adie Tomer

Monday, August 3, 2020