Tag: USA

(USA) Why and how the National Security Strategy should address fragile states (Brookings)

Patrick W. Quirk The Biden administration’s initial foreign policy priorities are coming into focus: combating climate change, competing with China, and reversing the spread of...
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(USA) Examining and addressing COVID-19 racial disparities in Detroit (Brookings)

Rashawn Ray, Jane Fran Morgan, Lydia Wileden, Samantha Elizondo, and Destiny Wiley-Yancy One in every 645 Black people in the United States can expect to die from COVID-19, per data...
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(USA) What the recovery from the Great Recession reveals about post-pandemic work and cities (Brookings)

Joanne Kim and Tracy Hadden Loh Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, there has been ongoing debate about the future of cities in a post-pandemic world, particularly...
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(USA) 8,000 districts point to 5 trends in instructional offerings (AEI)

Nat Malkus It’s been almost one year since schools first shuttered, and the debate on how they should respond to the ongoing pandemic is as...
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(USA) Wealth taxes come with a wealth of worrisome potential trade-offs (AEI)

James Pethokoukis President Biden’s campaign tax plan was full of tax increases, some $3 trillion worth. But a wealth tax wasn’t one of them. https://www.aei.org/economics/wealth-taxes-come-with-a-wealth-of-worrisome-potential-trade-offs/  
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(USA) Pick your Child Tax Credit (AEI)

Alex Brill, Kyle Pomerleau, Grant M. Seiter The Child Tax Credit (CTC) is all the rage these days. Democrats and Republicans both are advancing proposals to increase...
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(USA) Democrats’ Stealth Plan to Enact Universal Basic Income (AEI)

Robert Doar, Matt Weidinger The Covid stimulus would give checks to parents, with no strings attached. UBI for everyone is next. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/democrats-stealth-plan-to-enact-universal-basic-income/
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(USA) Trump’s protectionist failure (AEI)

Phil Gramm, Pat Toomey Tax cuts and deregulation spurred the boom. Tariffs delivered neither economic growth nor key states. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/trumps-protectionist-failure/
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(USA/Latin America) Do US institutions still inspire? The case of Latin America (AEI)

Ryan C. Berg, Haroldo Montealegre The tragic events that unfolded in January at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., has given rise to elegies of American...
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(USA) United States: Pandemic Impact on People in Poverty (HRW)

Brian Root Current System Leaves Needs Unmet; Lasting Reforms Needed https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/03/02/united-states-pandemic-impact-people-poverty
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(Iran/USA) Iran: “This Is Not the Time for Talks with the United States” (JCPA)

Lt. Col. (ret.) Michael Segall Iran threatens to completely remove all supervision of its nuclear program if the International Atomic Energy Agency adopts a resolution...
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(USA/Saudi Arabia) US Intelligence Report Leaves Saudi Arabia with No Good Geopolitical Choices (BESA Center)

James M. Dorsey The Biden administration’s publication of a US intelligence report that holds Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman responsible for the killing of...
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(USA) The Goldilocks Stimulus Myth (Project-Syndicate)

YANIS VAROUFAKIS Both supporters and critics of US President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan assume that there is a dollar amount that is just...
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(Russia/Middle East/USA) Russia Tries to Counter US Moves in the Middle East, in Vain (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev As its relations with Europe deteriorate and partnership with China hits an apparent pause, Russia searches for new opportunities to restore its...
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(USA) Embracing a Pandemic-Centered Foreign Policy (CSIS)

Gregory B. Poling Addressing the Covid-19 crisis will be the Biden administration’s overriding priority in the months ahead. https://www.csis.org/analysis/embracing-pandemic-centered-foreign-policy
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(USA) Coronavirus Crisis Update: Sheryl Gay Stolberg “Spring is Just Around the Corner.” (CSIS)

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, the NYT’s health policy correspondent, returned to our podcast to reflect on the first month of the Biden administration. https://www.csis.org/podcasts/take-directed-coronavirus-crisis-update/coronavirus-crisis-update-sheryl-gay-stolberg
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