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Is your business struggling with the labor shortage? Consider a union (Katie Bach and Molly Kinder, Brookings)

Last week, baristas at a Buffalo, NY Starbucks voted overwhelmingly to unionize, creating the first unionized Starbucks store in the US. The union victory came...

Mobile financial services can increase impacts of microfinance organizations—but the story is more complicated than we think (Cecilia Värendh Månsson, Brookings)

In an attempt to deepen financial inclusion, microfinance organizations are introducing digital solutions to serve low-income households and small- and medium-sized enterprises. Mobile financial...

The emerging global natural gas market and the energy crisis of 2021-2022 (Alex Gilbert, Morgan D. Bazilian, and Samantha Gross, Brookings)

The ongoing energy crisis of late 2021 looks sure to move into 2022. It has already had wide-ranging impacts on economics, the environment, and...

Digital government: Foundations for global development and democracy (George Ingram and Meagan Dooley, Brookings)

If there is any question as to how integral information and communications technology (ICT) is to global development, the evidence is in the Sustainable...

Preparing the United States for security and governance in a geoengineering future (Joseph Versen, Zaruhi Mnatsakanyan, and Johannes Urpelainen, Brookings)

Imagine the following scenario: it is the year 2035. One large country, dealing with major issues of global warming, decides to take extreme action....

Podcast: Can Digital Sovereignty Ever Be More Than a Myth in Russia? (Alexander Gabuev, Alena Epifanova, Janis Kluge, Carnegie Moscow Center)

What are the roots and drivers of the digital sovereignty narrative in Russian politics? Is there any Russian alternative to foreign 5G technology? Is...

Why LNG Didn’t Save Europe From an Energy Crisis (Sergei Kapitonov, Carnegie Moscow Center)

Russia has a unique chance to extend existing long-term contracts with Europe for both pipeline natural gas and LNG—and to agree new ones. Moscow’s...

Economist Calls for Deeper Examination of AI’s Risks (Patience Wait, Nextgov)

Daron Acemoglu thinks that the Luddites of the late 18th and early 19th centuries have been maligned by history. They are widely known for tossing their tools and...

Senate Hearing Tackles Harms Caused by Social Media Algorithms (Patience Wait, Nextgov)

The day after senators grilled Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri on the negative effects of his platform on teen girls during a Senate Commerce subcommittee hearing, another...

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