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Ryan Hass China, the story goes, is inexorably rising and on the verge of overtaking a faltering United States. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2021-03-03/china-not-ten-feet-tall

Riana Pfefferkorn India’s information technology ministry recently finalized a set of rules that the government argues will make online service providers more accountable for their users’ bad...

Adam Looney President Biden made headlines recently when he expressed reluctance to forgive large amounts of student debt owed by well-off students at elite schools. https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/biden-is-right-a-lot-of-students-at-elite-schools-have-student-debt/

Leo Holtz and Chris Heitzig Economic growth across the continent is actively reshaping Africa’s historically underdeveloped insurance market according to a recent report by McKinsey and Company, which outlines...

Norman Eisen, Colby Galliher, Madison Gee, Sue Ryu, and Kate Tandberg Since Russia invaded Georgia in the South Caucasus in 2008, the victims of the conflict have found little...

Jenny Schuetz Housing insecurity was a widespread problem among low-income renters well before the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/03/03/four-lessons-from-a-year-of-pandemic-housing-policies/

Michael R. Strain I recently highlighted two new papers on the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). The evidence on PPP’s effects is continuing to grow, and I want...

James Pethokoukis More trouble ahead for President Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief/stimulus bill? Last week, the Senate parliamentarian told lawmakers that the plan’s proposed increase in the...

Marc A. Thiessen Donald Trump’s loyal base remains intensely loyal. A straw poll of participants in the 2021 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) found 97 percent approve...