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(Mozambique/Islamic State) Combating the Islamic State’s spread in Africa: Assessment and recommendations for Mozambique (AEI)

Emily Estelle, Jessica Trisko Darden The global Salafi-jihadi movement, which includes al Qaeda and the Islamic State, is spreading in Africa. An Islamic State–linked group in...

(USA) Fix family poverty with free markets, for once (AEI)

Naomi Schaefer Riley, Angela Rachidi It has been a strange month in the world of family policy. Since Sen. Mitt Romney (R–Utah) floated his child allowance...

(Data Protection/Cybersecurity) Do data protection laws really improve cybersecurity? Highlights from my conversation with Emily Taylor (AEI)

Shane Tews Data protection and privacy laws must strike a difficult balance between individual privacy and cybersecurity. For example, what happens when a cyberattacker’s identity...

(USA) Improving Child Well-Being and Reducing Food Insecurity (Urban Institute)

Margaret Simms RaJade Berry-James Gary Glickman Demetra Smith Nightingale Food insecurity in children is a major challenge in the United States, especially during the current Covid-19 pandemic.  According...

(USA) The Preferred Stock Purchase Agreements Will Hamper Access to Credit (Urban Institute)

Edward Golding Laurie Goodman Jung Hyun Choi John Walsh The changes that Trump administration officials made to the preferred Stock Purchase Agreements (PSPAs) – the contracts that govern...

(USA) The Upper Middle Class Continued to Grow from 2014 to 2019 (Urban Institute)

Stephen Rose This update of a 2016 brief shows that the combined size of the upper middle class and rich grew from 31 to 39 percent of...

(USA) Place-Conscious Strategies to Restore Opportunity and Overcome Injustice (Urban Institute)

Margery Austin Turner Mica O'Brien America has built starkly unequal communities, systematically excluding Black people and other people of color from places rich with resources and...

(Greenland) A first-ever foreign policy opinion poll in Greenland shows support for more cooperation with US, Denmark (Arctic Today)

Martin Breum Opinions also favored closer ties to Canada, the Arctic Council and NATO, but were divided on China. https://www.arctictoday.com/a-first-ever-foreign-policy-opinion-poll-in-greenland-shows-support-for-more-cooperation-with-us-denmark/

(Arctic) Interior Department halts seismic surveys for oil in Alaska’s Arctic refuge (Arctic Today)

Yereth Rosen The company proposing to survey parts of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's coastal plain missed a deadline for its plan to protect polar...

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