Tag: USA

(USA) What went wrong with America’s $44 million vaccine data system? (MIT Technology Review)

Cat Ferguson https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/01/30/1017086/cdc-44-million-vaccine-data-vams-problems/?truid=&utm_source=the_download&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the_download.unpaid.engagement&utm_term=&utm_content=02-01-2021&mc_cid=fa03284a78&mc_eid=e4d30af98f

(USA/Middle East) How President Biden Can Tackle the Middle East’s Biggest Problems. Nine joint recommendations from leading think tanks in the United States, United...

By Kirsten Fontenrose, Ebtesam Al-Ketbi, and Udi Dekel February 1, 2021 — As US President Joe Biden takes office and confronts the mire of interlocking crises that...

(USA) Will the Supreme Court weaken lower-court checks on Biden’s executive power? (Frank J. Thompson, Brookings)

Frank J. Thompson https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2021/02/01/will-the-supreme-court-weaken-lower-court-checks-on-bidens-executive-power/

(USA) How the NSC can better tackle emerging technology threats (Brookings)

Brendan McCord is a technology entrepreneur and a former HQE/SGE at the Department of Defense, where he was an author of the Department of Defense...

(USA) Five ways that health information exchange can help with vaccination efforts (Brookings)

Niam Yaraghi and Peter L. Levin https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2021/02/01/five-ways-that-health-information-exchange-can-help-with-vaccination-efforts/

(USA) We’ve built schools for a modern economy—but they overlook the challenges of our modern democracy (Brookings)

Jon Valant https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2021/02/01/weve-built-schools-for-a-modern-economy-but-they-overlook-the-challenges-of-our-modern-democracy/

(USA) Biden Goes Big (Project-Syndicate)

JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/biden-right-to-launch-massive-rescue-plan-by-joseph-e-stiglitz-2021-02

(USA) The Crisis of American Power (Project-Syndicate)

MARK LEONARD https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/crisis-of-american-power-by-mark-leonard-2021-02

(USA/Iran) Iran ‘weeks away’ from enough nuclear material for bomb: Blinken (Al Jazeera)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/1/iran-weeks-away-from-enough-nuclear-material-for-bomb-blinken

(USA) US unions, environmentalists disagree about oil and gas pipelines (Al Jazeera)

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/2/1/us-unions-environmentalists-disagree-over-oil-and-gas-pipelines

(USA) CEOs of oil giants Exxon, Chevron discussed mega merger: Reports (Al Jazeera)

https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2021/2/1/ceos-of-oil-giants-exxon-and-chevron-discussed-merger-reports

(USA) US: Trump hires new lawyers to fight impeachment (Al Jazeera)

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/1/trump-says-hires-new-lawyers-to-defend-him-in-impeachment

(USA) Republicans are overwhelmingly sticking with Trump, yet again (Al Jazeera)

Anna Jacobs https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/1/republicans-are-overwhelmingly-sticking-with-trump-yet-again

(USA) No, America should not ‘accept and move on’ (Al Jazeera)

Patrick Gathara https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/2/1/no-america-should-not-accept-and-move-on

(USA) Biden’s removal of the 1776 Commission report is not enough (Al Jazeera)

Lori A Allen https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2021/1/31/bidens-removal-of-the-1776-commission-report-is-not-enough

(USA) Access denied ? The future of USA basing in a contested world (War on the Rocks)

Renanah Miles Joyce is a postdoctoral fellow in grand strategy, security, and statecraft at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Harvard Kennedy School.  Brian Blankenship is...