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Iraq – Iraq’s upcoming elections: Voters and likely winners (Marsin Alshamary, Brookings)

To understand the likely and unlikely outcomes of Iraq’s early parliamentary elections, scheduled for October, we need to understand both who is running and...

USA – Note to Bernie: The 8 arguments for restoring the SALT deduction, and why they’re all wrong (Richard V. Reeves and Christopher Pulliam,...

Senator Bernie Sanders appears to have changed his mind on the deduction for state and local taxes (SALT). Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee,...

USA – Low to moderate-income families are losing ground: How to save their homeownership dreams (Makada Henry-Nickie, Tim Lucas, Radha Seshagiri, and Samantha Elizondo,...

Widespread vaccinations and relaxed CDC restrictions have stimulated a robust economic rebound. Since the start of the pandemic, the U.S. unemployment rate declined dramatically...

USA – Remote work won’t save the heartland (Mark Muro, Yang You, Robert Maxim, and Max Niles, Brookings)

Hopes persist that a burst of relocations by tech companies and remote workers will revitalize the American heartland. Recent location announcements by firms such...

USA – Podcast: The view from industry on U.S. semiconductor production (Pavneet Singh, Nadia Schadlow, and Susie Armstrong, Brookings)

Amid a global shortage of semiconductors, policymakers in Washington and U.S. technologists are seeking solutions for bolstering the domestic chip-making industry. In this episode...

USA – When climate policy works: HFCs and the case of short-lived climate pollutants (Barry G. Rabe, Brookings)

Congress began debating policy options for addressing climate change more than three decades ago but its first comprehensive legislative strategy to address any greenhouse...

Heavy Industry – The challenge of decarbonizing heavy industry (Samantha Gross, Brookings)

Heavy industry makes products that are central to our modern way of life but is also responsible for nearly 40% of global carbon dioxide...

USA – “Equal weighting” is a poor framework for arbitration decisions under the No Surprises Act (Matthew Fiedler, Benedic Ippolito, and Loren Adler, Brookings)

In December 2020, Congress enacted the No Surprises Act, which will eliminate most surprise out-of-network bills effective January 1, 2022. The law bars health care providers...

Pandemic/Governance Systems – Pandemics and Political Performance (Francis Fukuyama, Luis Felipe López-Calva, Project-Syndicate)

The huge variation in how countries have performed during the pandemic points to deeper underlying political and governance issues that have now come fully...
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