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USA – COVID-19 vaccines: The endgame (Brookings)

William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck In the past four months the COVID-19 vaccination campaign has gone from a desperate, chaotic search for scarce vaccines to enough...

USA – What pre-pandemic job trends suggest about the post-pandemic future of the capital region (Brookings)

Jaclene Begley, Leah Brooks, Brian J. McCabe, Jenny Schuetz, and Stan Veuger While the long-term economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic are still uncertain, the sharp increase in remote work has...

USA – We can’t beat the climate crisis without rethinking land use (Brookings)

Adie Tomer, Joseph W. Kane, Jenny Schuetz, and Caroline George After declaring the climate crisis to be a top priority of his administration, President Joe Biden recently solidified his greenhouse...

USA/China – Biden’s China strategy: Coalition-driven competition or Cold War-style confrontation? (Brookings)

Cheng Li In 1998, at a time when the United States enjoyed supreme power and influence on the world stage, Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security...

USA – A proposal for a federal paid parental and medical leave program (Brookings)

Tanya Byker and Elena Spatoulas Patel There is almost universal agreement in the United States that workers should have access to wage replacement during a work disruption...

USA – Increasing federal investment in children’s early care and education to raise quality, access, and affordability (Brookings)

Elizabeth Davis and Aaron Sojourner The core challenge our proposal seeks to address is how to ensure that every American family and child has access to high-quality,...

Malaysia – The politicisation of Syariah law in Muhyiddin’s Malaysia (East Asia Forum)

Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid, Universiti Sains Malaysia In March 2021, Malaysia’s Perikatan Nasional (PN) government proposed resurrecting the Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Bill 355 (RUU355). Reviving it...

USA/Japan/Australia/India – The right angle of the Quadrilateral (East Asia Forum)

Mason Richey, HUFS The leaders of the United States, Japan, Australia and India met virtually on 12 March in their strategic mini-lateral grouping known as the Quadrilateral...

Energy and Climate Change: Latin America as a strategic player (Lisa Viscidi, Sara Phillips, Marco Emanuele, The Science of Where Magazine)

The Science of Where Magazine meets Lisa Viscidi and Sarah Phillips – The Dialogue. Leadership for the Americas. The energy transition is one of the issues on which we focus...

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