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Kyle Pomerleau Last month, Senator Mitt Romney introduced a proposal to enact a “child allowance,” a monthly payment to households with children. https://www.aei.org/economics/tax-bias-and-the-child-and-dependent-care-tax-credit/

Michael Rubin The Biden administration today fulfilled its pledge to release an unclassified version of a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) report on Saudi Arabia’s murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/how-bidens-jamal-khashoggi-report-could-backfire/

Daniel A. Cox Political conspiracies are nothing new, but a new crop of wild claims and falsehoods have become prominent in the Republican Party. https://www.aei.org/articles/when-it-comes-to-conspiracy-theories-education-matters/

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Adrianna Pita President Biden’s authorization of a U.S. retaliatory strike against Iranian-backed militias in Syria raises questions about his administration’s policies toward Iraq,...

Quinta Jurecic, Evelyn Douek, and Rasmus Kleis Nielsen A remarkable conflict is playing out between the Australian government on the one side, and Google and Facebook on...

Dany Bahar and Meagan Dooley In late 2019, we released numbers that continue to make headlines today: The Venezuelan refugee crisis was then the most underfunded in modern history. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/02/26/venezuelan-refugees-and-their-receiving-communities-need-funding-not-sympathy/

HARRY J. HOLZER The U.S. labor market is now quite weak. Job creation in the past few months has slowed dramatically, as the COVID-19 caseload...

Ranj Alaaldin President Joe Biden’s decision to strike Iran-aligned groups in Syria last night follows a spate of rocket attacks launched against U.S. targets in Iraq this...

Jesús Crespo Cuaresma and Max Thomasberger The COVID-19 crisis has had extraordinary effects on human mobility and short-term international migration flows. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/02/26/modeling-remittances-flows-with-web-scraping/