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Africa – Reimagining Education for All in Africa (Project-Syndicate)

CONNIE NSHEMEREIRWE At current rates, about 20% of children in Sub-Saharan Africa will still be excluded from schooling in 2030. But, besides seeking to expand...

Morals and the Vaccine Market (Projecty-Syndicate)

KAUSHIK BASU The glaring global inequity in access to COVID-19 vaccines is both an intellectual and moral failure. The pandemic is a clarion call to...

Sri Lanka – Before the phoenix nest: Questions surrounding the port city of Colombo (ORF)

ASANGA ABEYAGOONASEKERA Sri Lanka is in a conundrum. its present governance has approved China’s extra-jurisdictional Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Colombo Port City, right...

The race for mega satellite constellations: Crowding and control in Low Earth Orbit (ORF)

KARTIK BOMMAKANTI Low Earth Orbit (LEO) is increasingly becoming crowded. The Chinese have announced that they will be launching a mega constellation of 13,000...

India – Modi’s BJP finds the voter’s pulse in West Bengal elections (East Asia Forum)

Manas Nag, Singapore The ongoing West Bengal Legislative Assembly election has seen the defection of several state politicians from the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) to the...

USA – Do immigrants harm native students academically? (Brookings)

David Figlio, Paola Giuliano, Riccardo Marchingiglio, Umut Özek, and Paola Sapienza Over the past 50 years, the United States has experienced the second-largest wave of immigration in its history....

USA/India – Biden’s misstep in India (Brookings)

Thomas Wright The Biden administration’s announcement on Monday that it would soon export tens of millions of doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine completed a dramatic...

Podcast: Fady Khoury and Rabea Eghbariah on Israel’s ‘Cyber Unit’ (Brookings)

Evelyn Douek, Quinta Jurecic, Fady Khoury, and Rabea Eghbariah On this week’s edition of Arbiters of Truth, Lawfare‘s podcast miniseries on our online information ecosystem, Evelyn Douek and Quinta...

USA – Inequalities in housing hardship declined because everybody is now worse off (Brookings)

Yung Chun and Michal Grinstein-Weiss Through the course of the pandemic, we have investigated the disproportionate pandemic impacts on U.S. families. In June, we reported that Black and...

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