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USA – The Stampede from Silicon Valley (John B. Taylor, Project-Syndicate)

By forcing knowledge workers to telecommute, the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare many of the unnecessary tax and regulatory burdens that tech firms face...

USA – Living and Dying in America in 2021 (Anne Case, Angus Deaton, Project-Syndicate)

In addition to killing at least 340,000 people in America alone, COVID-19 has accelerated economic trends that promise to undermine the lives and livelihoods...

CLIMATE ACTION – Climate Hope Is Back (Jules Kortenhorst, Andreas Kuhlmann, Project-Syndicate)

After withstanding four years of official US efforts to sabotage progress on combating climate change, the world is entering a promising new era of...

TRADE/FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION – Mapping TradeTech: Trade in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (WEF)

TradeTech, or the set of technologies and innovations that enable trade to be more efficient, inclusive, and equitable, is fundamental to harnessing the innovations...

BREXIT – What’s in the EU-UK Brexit Deal? (Matthias Matthijs, CFR)

The European Union and the United Kingdom came to a last-minute trade deal on Christmas Eve, narrowly averting the hardest of all potential Brexits....

PANDEMIC/CYBER THREATS – Experts discuss the growth of cyber threats amid the pandemic (Eun DuBois, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/28/experts-discuss-the-growth-of-cyber-threats-amid-the-pandemic/

AFRICA – Making the AfCFTA work for ‘The Africa We Want’ (Hippolyte Fofack, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/research/making-the-afcfta-work-for-the-africa-we-want/

USA – To rebuild the foreign service, avoid an “amnesty” and promote functional roles (Jeffrey Feltman, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/28/to-rebuild-the-foreign-service-avoid-an-amnesty-and-promote-functional-roles/

USA – Who is—and isn’t—represented in environmental oversight in Congress (Mohammed Memfis, Molly E. Reynolds, and Jackson Gode, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/12/28/who-is-and-isnt-represented-in-environmental-oversight-in-congress/
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