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(Technology/Innovation) How data is driving sustainability in food retail (WEF)

Tuuli Sarvilinna Internet of Things (IoT) solutions are helping food retailers to maintain the quality and safety of our food using the least amount of...

(USA) Excess US savings ‘unlikely’ to generate destabilising surge in demand (WEF)

Florin Bilbiie, Gauti Eggertsson, Giorgio Primiceri Post-pandemic economic recovery in the US partially depends on the $1.6 trillion ‘excess savings’ US households have accumulated since...

(Pandemic) How COVID could democratise commutes (WEF)

Mouchka Heller COVID lockdowns have raised key questions about commutes and their costs in terms of time, money and health https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/how-covid-19-transformed-the-commute/

(Overfishing) WTO deal is within reach to remove harmful fishing subsidies and halt global fish meltdown (WEF)

Gemma Parkes Every year, governments around the world pump $22 billion of public money into efforts that encourage overfishing https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/03/wto-deal-is-within-reach-to-remove-harmful-fishing-subsidies-and-halt-the-global-fish-meltdown/

(China/Uyghurs) Review: ‘The War on the Uyghurs’ (AEI)

Bill Drexel Sean Roberts’ The War on the Uyghurs provides a timely and thorough background for the world’s most pressing atrocity. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/the-war-on-the-uyghurs/

(USA) What is Biden’s ‘foreign policy for the middle class’? (AEI)

Hal Brands Every president needs a grand strategy — a set of principles and priorities that guides a country’s statecraft in a chaotic world. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/what-is-bidens-foreign-policy-for-the-middle-class/

(Deterrence) Producing fear in the enemy’s mind: How to adapt Cold War deterrence for gray-zone aggression (AEI)

Elisabeth Braw Deterrence is based on psychology rather than specific tools and seeks to change adversaries’ cost-benefit calculations to convince them not to engage in...

(USA) Why nearly everyone hates cost sharing (even though there’s less in the health care forest than in the employer-plan trees) (AEI)

Overall out-of-pocket spending (OOPS) as a share of total national health care expenditures in the United States has consistently declined over the past six...

(Gendered Disinformation) Gendered disinformation is a national security problem (Brookings)

Lucina Di Meco and Kristina Wilfore The January 6th storming of the Capitol represented the culmination of a political movement grounded in extremism, fueled by misinformation, and...

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