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(Australia) Google opens paid-for Australia news platform in move to undercut bypass payment law (Al Arabiya)

https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/media/digital/2021/02/05/Google-opens-paid-for-Australia-news-platform-in-move-to-undercut-bypass-payment-law

(Lebanon) Lokman Slim and the anatomy of assassinations in Lebanon (Al Arabiya)

Nadim Shehadi https://englishbeta.alarabiya.net/views/news/middle-east/2021/02/05/Lokman-Slim-and-the-anatomy-of-Hezbollah-s-brutal-history-of-assassination

(USA) Time to Rethink Nursing Homes (JAMA, Network, Brookings)

Stuart M. Butler https://jamanetwork.com/channels/health-forum/fullarticle/2776290

(USA) Around the halls: Brookings experts analyze President Biden’s first foreign policy speech (Brookings)

Pavel K. Baev, Célia Belin, Sam Denney, Federica Saini Fasanotti, Sadie Frank, James Goldgeier, Ryan Hass, Bruce Jones, Kemal Kirişci, Daniel L. Magruder Jr., Giovanna De Maio, Steven Pifer, Douglas A. Rediker, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Angela Stent, Christopher A. Thomas, David...

(USA) What is reconciliation in Congress? (Brookings)

David Wessel https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/02/05/what-is-reconciliation-in-congress/

(USA) Charts of the Week: Black inventors; Black-white wealth gap; Black men poorly served by schools (Brookings)

Fred Dews https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2021/02/05/charts-of-the-week-black-inventors-black-white-wealth-gap-black-men-poorly-served-by-schools/

(USA) Should the Senate convict Donald Trump? Here’s what the American people think (Brookings)

William A. Galston https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/02/05/should-the-senate-convict-donald-trump-heres-what-the-american-people-think/

(Africa) Did Africa turn a corner in 2020 or did it just dodge a bullet? (Brookings)

Indermit Gill and Kenan Karakülah https://www.brookings.edu/blog/future-development/2021/02/05/did-africa-turn-a-corner-in-2020-or-did-it-just-dodge-a-bullet/

(USA) Essential workers comprise about half of all workers in low-paid occupations. They deserve a $15 minimum wage (Brookings)

Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/02/05/essential-workers-deserve-minimum-wage-increase/

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