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Singapore – Singapore’s pop culture vaccine governance (East Asia Forum)

A Chong, Singapore Combatting COVID-19 is turning out to be a demonstration of the limits and possibilities of ‘Big Brother’ style governance, taken straight out...

USA/Southeast Asia – Biden comes face-to-face with Southeast Asian diplomacy (East Asia Forum)

Hoang Vu and Thuc D Pham, Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam Due to the COVID-19 pandemic restricting international travel, US diplomacy has shifted from conventional face-to-face...

USA – TechTank Episode 25: Why state unemployment insurance programs failed workers during the COVID-19 pandemic (Brookings)

Darrell M. West We live in a time of digital transformation. Technology is altering how we work, learn, and access public services. At the same...

USA/Europe – An agenda for US-EU cooperation on Big Tech regulation (Brookings)

Samuel Woolley and Dominika Hajdu During President Joe Biden’s first six months in office, his administration has made a priority of revitalizing American alliances and intensifying scrutiny...

USA – July’s jobs report shows Black teens struggling with the highest unemployment rate (Brookings)

Kristen Broady, Tiffany N. Ford, and Carl Romer The Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report for July, released last week, showed a continuation of the steady economic recovery...

Ethiopia/USA – Dangerous trends in Ethiopia: Time for Washington’s tough love (Brookings)

Vanda Felbab-Brown Amonth after a seeming breakthrough toward conflict de-escalation in the grinding war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and the associated humanitarian catastrophe, conflict...

USA – Why hospitals and healthcare organizations need to take cybersecurity more seriously (Brookings)

Emily Skahill and Darrell M. West The fuel shortages and rising gas prices generated by the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack in May foreshadow the disastrous and far-reaching effects of cyberattacks on...

Global – Global governance after COVID-19: Survey report (Brookings)

Kemal Derviş and Sebastian Strauss The Global Economy and Development Program at Brookings conducted a survey on multilateralism in the Spring of 2021 as part of a...

USA – Homelessness fell across most metro areas after the Great Recession. Will COVID-19 change that? (Brookings)

Matt Ring and Jenny Schuetz Over the past year, job losses from the COVID-19 pandemic have exacerbated housing insecurity among low-income renters. As of January 2021, nearly one in four of...

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