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USA – Student loans, the racial wealth divide, and why we need full student debt cancellation (Andre M. Perry, Marshall Steinbaum, and Carl Romer,...

“No matter what you want to do with your life, I guarantee that you’ll need an education to do it,” President Barack Obama said in a...

USA – The social insurance system in the US: Policies to protect workers and families (Mitchell Barnes, Lauren Bauer, Wendy Edelberg, Sara Estep, Robert...

This paper examines the U.S. social insurance system, which we define broadly to include both programs supported by dedicated taxes and other federal programs...

USA – All recent US population growth comes from people of color, new census estimates show (William H. Frey, Brookings)

As we await the final 2020 census statistics for America’s race and ethnic populations (due later this summer), newly released Census Bureau estimates compiled...

International Law – Consequences of the Crisis and the Need for the Restoration of International Law ( Goran Petronijević, Valdai Discussion Club)

Taking into account the new circumstances and change in the previously dominant world order, which is slowly but surely sliding towards multipolarity, it is necessary to restore a system of clear...

Serbia/Russia – Russia and Serbia: From Historical Memory to Future Relations (Oleg Barabanov, The Jamestown Foundation)

The phrase “Be realistic, demand the impossible” is well-known. Russia and Serbia now face approximately the same task in order to preserve their partnership in the future, writes Valdai...

Venezuela/Russia – The Bolivarian Republic and the United States Empire: Venezuelan Foreign Minister Speaks about the Country’s Struggle for Sovereignty (Valdai Discussion Club)

On June 22, the Valdai Discussion Club held a meeting with Venezuelan Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza as part of his visit to Russia. In...

Serbia/Russia – Serbia and Russia: Why Do We Know So Little About Each Other? (Boyan Bilbia, Valdai Discussion Club)

In May of this year, the inimitable Djordje Marjanović, a great performer of Serbian and Yugoslav, Soviet and Russian pop music, died. The coronavirus had cost...

USA – President Biden in Europe: The United States Returns as a Leader (Eldad Shavit, Shimon Stein, INSS)

Nearly five months after entering the White House, President Biden took his first presidential trip abroad, with the purpose of emphasizing to European leaders:...

Middle East/ASMLA – ASMLA: An Empirical Exploration of an Ethno-Nationalist Terrorist Organization (Arvin Khoshnood, BESA Center)

The Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz (ASMLA) is an ethno-nationalist Sunni Muslim organization that strives to establish an independent Arab state,...

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