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USA/South Korea – The U.S.-South Korea Summit: A Relationship Restored? (CFR)

Scott A. Snyder Last week’s summit between U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-in aimed to bolster the alliance across a range...

USA – Why a Commission Should Investigate the U.S. Capitol Attack (CFR)

Bruce Hoffman Far too little is known about how the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol happened. A bipartisan investigation should address this,...

Facial Recognition Technology – Mandating fairness and accuracy assessments for law enforcement facial recognition systems (Brookings)

Mark MacCarthy Fraser Sampson, the newly appointed Commissioner overseeing biometrics and surveillance cameras in the United Kingdom, made headlines recently when he opposed facial recognition technology (FRT)...

USA – Free college? Try Scholarships for Service (Brookings)

Sarah Nzau President Biden’s American Families Plan adds to the long list of proposals to make college more affordable, in this case with two free years of...

USA – Special education: Beneficial to many, harmful to others (Brookings)

Briana Ballis and Katelyn Heath Over the past 45 years, there has been a dramatic increase in the fraction of students receiving special education (SE) services in...

USA – Strengthening the Child Tax Credit: What comes next? (Brookings)

Robert Greenstein The American Rescue Plan (ARP), which President Biden signed in March, includes a far-reaching Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion that would cut child...

Pandemic – Pandemic, Inequality and Geopolitics (Valdai Discussion Club)

Andrés Serbin The COVID-19 pandemic has probably caused the greatest economic, political and social damage to humanity since World War II. In fact, it will...

Russia/USA – Russia and the USA: In Search of a New Model of Relations (Valdai Discussion Club)

Some intensification of Russian-American negotiations on the preparation of the meeting between presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden provides an opportunity to once again analyse not only the current...

Ukraine – Ukraine’s New Naval Doctrine: A Revision of the Mosquito Fleet Strategy or Bureaucratic Inconsistency? (The Jamestown Foundation)

Ihor Kabanenko For Ukraine, which lost more than 70 percent of its naval assets after Russia’s forcible annexation of Crimea, the ability to effectively deter...

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