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Russia’s Armed Forces Enhance UAV Strike Capability (Roger McDermott, The Jamestown Foundation)

The joint Belarusian-Russian Zapad 2021 combined strategic exercise (sovmestnoe strategicheskoe uchenie), which lasted from September 10 to 16, witnessed numerous tests and experiments involving Russia’s...

The metachallenges of the metaverse (Tom Wheeler, Brookings)

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg told listeners to his July 2021 quarterly earnings call that “I expect people will transition from seeing us as a...

Building better diagnostic standards for medical AI (David Larson, Daniel L. Rubin, and Curtis Langlotz, Brookings)

As researchers grew to understand COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic, many built AI algorithms to analyze medical images and measure the...

Mobile money dominates fintech investment in Africa (Leo Holtz, Brookings)

Financial technology, colloquially referred to as “fintech,” is accelerating financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa—a region that traditionally suffers from limited access to formal financial services,...

Pláticas: How Mesa, Ariz. is combatting displacement with community conversations (Augie Gastelum and Ryan Winkle, Brookings)

Mesa, a city just east of Phoenix, Arizona, is part of the fastest growing metro area in the state and one of the most populous cities in...

It’s complicated: Lessons from 25 years of measuring governance (Daniel Kaufmann, Brookings)

Attempting to quantify governance would be rather complicated if not futile. And in any case, national governance changes very slowly, taking generations. Besides, economic...

Redistricting 2021: Red states, blue voters (Elaine Kamarck, Brookings)

After a COVID-19-related delay in getting out the census data, states across the country are now moving to draw new lines for congressional districts...

Leveraging India’s Aadhaar platform to ease COVID-19 pain (Shweta Saini and Siraj Hussain, East Asia Forum)

As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, the ability to reach citizens digitally has become more critical than ever before. In India, the government is harnessing...

Myanmar’s military junta has long-term power plans (Nyi Nyi Kyaw, East Asia Forum)

The Myanmar military junta seems to be here to stay after extending its emergency rule until at least until August 2023. But what does it...

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