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(Israel) The morning after the Israeli electoral circus (Al Jazeera)

Marwan Bishara Israel is stuck in an electoral groundhog day, with each election producing more of the same. https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/3/22/the-morning-after-the-israeli-elections-circus

(USA) Does Bernie Sanders think Elon Musk is a policy mistake, too? (AEI)

James Pethokoukis When presented with left-wing (typically, it seems, but maybe that’s changing) complaints about American billionaires — the US has the most in the...

(USA) Headed for $900 billion in unemployment benefits (AEI)

Matt Weidinger In the roughly 18 months between when the pandemic struck in March 2020 and when the latest round of expanded unemployment benefits included...

(USA) COVID-19 and the fast-moving workforce revolution (AEI

Brent Orrell Before the pandemic, a majority of Americans worked the standard “grind”: 9-to-5, five days a week, plus hours more of commuting. https://www.aei.org/workforce/covid-19-and-the-fast-moving-workforce-revolution/

(Defense) The 2020s tri-service modernization crunch (AEI)

Mackenzie Eaglen This decade, the US military is facing a massive spending spike to pay for modernization bills across the Army, Navy, Air Force, and...

(Ukraine) Ukraine to License-Build US Helicopters for Its Armed Forces (The Jamestown Foundation)

John C. K. Daly Ukraine’s efforts to politically and military integrate with the West greatly intensified after Russia’s 2014 absorption of Crimea, while the subsequent...

(Russia/Karabakh) Russia’s Karabakh Protectorate Taking Clearer Shape (Part Two) (The Jamestown Foundation)

Vladimir Socor Russia seems intent on reproducing in Karabakh the model it had earlier developed in Abkhazia, South Ossetia, Transnistria and Donbas—namely, a local proto-state...

(Russia) Two Words That Shook Putin’s Regime (The Jamestown Foundation)

 Pavel K. Baev The resonance in Russia from a short fragment of United States President Joseph Biden’s ABC News interview last Wednesday (March 17) has been extraordinarily...

(Taiwan/USA) A broad view provides the best insight on Taiwan’s strengths and vulnerabilities (Brookings)

Comparing the treatment of Taiwan in the 2017 White House National Security Strategy with the 2021 Interim National Security Strategic Guidance provides a subtle...

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