Tag: USA

(USA/Small Businesses/Colorado) Overcoming bias in small business relief in Colorado (Brookings)

Reniya Dinkins and Michael Zhu Nearly 11 months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the small businesses that are a crucial part of powering local economies are still extremely...

(USA/Pandemic) Preparing for the next pandemic: Early lessons from COVID-19 (Brookings)

Dante Disparte COVID-19 has caused more than 109 million confirmed cases, claimed more than 2.4 million lives, and even brought prosperous nations and well-run healthcare systems...

(USA/Middle Class) No time to spare: Exploring the middle class time squeeze (Brookings)

Tiffany N. Ford, Jennifer M. Silva, Morgan Welch, and Isabel V. Sawhill In the last few decades,  middle-class wages, especially for men,  have stagnated, and the middle class has experienced slower income...

(USA/Trade Agenda) What do we know about the Biden administration’s emerging trade policy? (Brookings)

David Dollar and Mary E. Lovely Global trade may not dominate the news in the early days of Joe Biden’s presidency, but it does factor into many...

(USA/Climate Change) Biden’s ‘green jobs’ mirage (AEI)

Brent Orrell, Mason M. Bishop President Biden finished his whirlwind first week in office with an executive order to tackle climate change. https://www.aei.org/articles/bidens-green-jobs-mirage/

(USA/Unemployment System/Technology) The unemployment system is broken. Technology alone won’t fix it (AEI)

Brent Orrell Responding to the horror stories of millions of jobless Americans struggling, and often failing, to register for unemployment benefits during the pandemic, Senator...

(USA/George Shultz) George Shultz’s statesmanship began with good government at home (AEI)

Adam J. White When George Shultz passed away last week, America lost one of the 20th Century’s greatest statesmen. https://www.aei.org/op-eds/george-shultzs-statesmanship-began-with-good-government-at-home/

(USA/Politics) Legislators feel caught in a primaries trap (AEI)

Kevin R. Kosar What is next for Donald Trump? There are reports that the former president is intending to play a role in the 2022...

(USA/China) China, unquarantined (AEI)

Dan Blumenthal, Nicholas Eberstadt For decades, the United States has pursued a bipartisan strategy to engage China and enmesh it in the free world’s great webs of...

(USA/Indo Pacific) Virtual Fireside Chat: India, China, and the Quad: The Future of U.S. Strategy in the Indo-Pacific (CNAS)

The Indo-Pacific has emerged as the world’s economic and geopolitical center of gravity. This region has become the central theater in the competition between...

(USA/Post Pandemic/Workforce Development System) After COVID-19: Building a more coherent and effective workforce development system in the United States (Brookings)

Harry J. Holzer Workforce development in the United States today is spread across higher education institutions (primarily public two-year and for-profit colleges), labor market institutions,...

(Iraq/USA) Rockets target north Iraq airbase hosting US troops (Al Monitor)

A volley of rockets targeted the Kurdish regional capital in northern Iraq late Monday, authorities said, as security sources confirmed that at least one...

(USA/Saudi Arabia) Biden effect: Saudi hastens trials, placates rivals (Al Monitor)

Under a new US glare, Saudi Arabia is rushing to release some political prisoners and make up with regional rivals, attempting to clean up...

(Turkey/PKK/USA) Blinken walks back State Department ambiguity over Turkish hostages killed in Iraq (Al Monitor)

Amberin Zaman After an earlier statement suggesting Washington didn't necessarily buy Ankara's narrative on the killings, the State Department today said that "PKK terrorists bear...

(USA/UAE/Yemen) Feud between Congressman and UAE ambassador to US escalates online (Middle East Eye)

Congressman Ro Khanna calls for release of Yemeni journalist Adel al-Hasani after war of words with Yousef al-Otaiba https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/feud-between-us-congressman-ro-khanna-and-uae-ambassador-escalates-online

(USA/Politics) Impeachment’s Partisan Doom (Project-Syndicate)

ELIZABETH DREW The US Senate has failed to convict former President Donald Trump for inciting insurrection on January 6. This outcome raises the question as...