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USA – To celebrate Juneteenth, elect officials focused on ending mass incarceration (Kristen Broady and Anthony Barr, Brookings)

Every year on June 19, Americans have the opportunity to commemorate Juneteenth—the day in 1865 when federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas to take...

USA – What investors and the SEC can learn from the Texas power crisis (Stephanie H. Jones, Gabriel Malek, Michael Panfil, and David G....

Download the full report ABSTRACT The February 2021 extreme winter weather event and ensuing power outages in Texas (collectively, the “February 2021 Crisis”) are a salient...

South Korea – Policy and institutional responses to COVID-19: South Korea (Paul Dyer, Brookings)

While South Korea has suffered from several waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, its public health system has been able to combat outbreaks effectively, limiting...

TechInnovation – Using ArcGIS Excalibur for Observation Management (Jamon Johnson, Matthew Calamito, Diana Colgrove, ESRI)

ArcGIS Excalibur transforms the way analysts search, discover, and work with imagery — all in a single web-based application. Excalibur modernizes and enhances image-based workflows...

TechInnovation – How to make that map: Combining ArcGIS Living Atlas Layers with Blending Modes (Rich Nauman, Esri)

This post is the last of the how-to blogs promised in Our Four Favorite Ways to Map American Agriculture. In that blog I shared a...

TechInnovation – Parades and Special Events: Operational Intelligence and Data Fusion (David LaShell, Esri)

Public special events are the heart and soul of any community. While essential to the social fabric and economy of their regions, these events...

Climate Action – The Logic of Effective Climate Action (Barry Eichengreen, Project-Syndicate)

In his classic book, The Logic of Collective Action, the late great Mancur Olson explained that the hardest policies to implement are those with diffuse...

Switzerland – Switzerland’s Brexit Moment (Georg E. Riekeles, Project-Syndicate)

The Swiss government’s recent withdrawal from long-running negotiations on a framework agreement with the European Union has triggered a deep crisis in bilateral relations. For...

Iran – Iran’s presidential election may also be a contest for the next supreme leader (Ian Dudgeon, ASPI)

Ebrahim Raisi, a hardline conservative, is widely predicted to be elected as Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s successor in elections scheduled for 18 June. But the...

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