Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

USA/Afghanistan – DOD IG Issues Guidance for Removing Sensitive Tech and Data from Afghanistan (Nextgov)

Brandi Vincent The U.S. military must take deliberate steps to ensure that records are kept and sensitive data is protected or removed from the equipment...
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USA – Homeland Security Considering CMMC-like Compliance Effort (Nextgov)

Frank Konkel The Department of Homeland Security will conduct a “pathfinder assessment” to determine a path forward regarding a new cybersecurity compliance program that shares...
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USA – Agriculture Launching New IT System to Manage Discrimination Complaints (Nextgov)

Aaron Boyd The Agriculture Department is launching a new IT system to manage civil rights discrimination complaints lodged against its programs and partners, to be...
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USA – How Turning to a Digital Workforce Is Government’s Path from Legacy IT to IT Transformation (Nextgov)

ENOT-POLOSKUN/ISTOCK.COM Steve Picot The public sector has an understandably high bar for adopting emerging technologies, not only because of governance issues, but also due to the...
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Cuba – What’s Next for Cuba? (CFR)

Speakers Nora Gámez Torres Reporter, Cuba and U.S.-Latin American Policy, Nuevo Herald and Miami Herald Lillian Guerra Professor of Cuban and Caribbean History and Director, Cuba Program, University of Florida Jason I....
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USA – Doubling Pell Grants makes sense — if Biden ditches the rest of his higher ed agenda (AEI)

Elizabeth “Beth” Akers, Frederick M. Hess Over the last several years, the Warren-Sanders wing of the Democratic Party has succeeded at reshaping the higher education...
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USA/Afghanistan – Why Joe Biden’s Afghanistan speech was a disaster (AEI)

Michael Rubin President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the unfolding tragedy in Afghanistan. He was unrepentant. “I Do Not Regret My Decision,” he declared. His speech...
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USA – A nation divided over unity (AEI)

Yuval Levin In his inaugural address in January, President Joe Biden appealed repeatedly to the need to overcome American divisions. “To restore the soul and to...
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USA – Why don’t colleges help faculty know what woke lines shouldn’t be crossed? (AEI)

Naomi Schaefer Riley It’s been five years since University of Chicago dean John Ellison made a splash with a letter to the school’s incoming freshmen. “Our...
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USA – New Senate bill would damage the app economy and consumers (AEI)

Mark Jamison The “Open App Markets Act,” introduced in the Senate last week, is the latest salvo against Americans who enjoy iPhones and Android phones....
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Afghanistan/UK – Afghanistan and the UK’s Illusion of Strategy (RUSI)

Main Image Credit Former US President George W Bush and former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair at a joint news conference in 2002. Courtesy of...
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Afghanistan/USA – The Case for Expediting Special Immigrant Visas amid a Transition of Power in Afghanistan (CSIS)

Daniel F. Runde, Elena Mendez Leal Following nearly 20 years of war in Afghanistan with a cost of more than $2 trillion and 241,000 lives lost, the...
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Afghanistan – The Reasons for the Collapse of Afghan Forces (CSIS)

Anthony H. Cordesman The sudden collapse of the Afghan central government and the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) has occurred with stunning speed....
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Israel – From Tribal Politics to a Territorial Democracy (BESA Center)

Knesset chamber, image via Wikipedia Shmuel Sandler The State of Israel is in a political crisis that reflects deep social rifts. At the Herzliya Conference in 2015, then-president Reuven Rivlin noted that demographic...
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Afghanistan/USA – Biden: ‘I Stand Squarely Behind My Decision’ on Afghanistan (Defense One)

Jacqueline Feldscher President Joe Biden said Monday that he did not regret withdrawing all American forces from Afghanistan despite “gut-wrenching” scenes of the Taliban taking...
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Afghanistan – You Can’t Buy a Cause. Examining the roots of the Afghanistan forces’ collapse (Defense One)

Mark Kimmitt The rout of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, or ANDSF, will go down in history as one of the greatest military...
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