Tag: USA

USA/SPACE X – SpaceX wins $150 million launch contract (Nathan Strout, Defense News)

The Space Development Agency selected SpaceX as the launch provider for its first 28 satellites, awarding the company a $150 million contract for two...

USA – 10 former Pentagon chiefs warn Trump on involving military in pursuing election claims (Defense News)

In an extraordinary rebuke of President Donald Trump, all 10 living former secretaries of defense are cautioning against any move to involve the military in pursuing...

USA – The Swamp Returns to Washington (Alex Joffe, BESA Center)

The incoming Biden administration has begun to appoint personnel and articulate policies, both directly and through the extended voice of the foreign policy establishment...

USA – Is America’s Fourth Estate in Foreclosure? (Jiri and Leni Valenta, BESA Center)

The modern American usage of the term “fourth estate” refers to the press as a free power, and even as a watchdog over the executive, legislative,...

USA/CHINA – Avoiding the climate canard in US-China relations (Ryan Hass, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/01/04/avoiding-the-climate-canard-in-us-china-relations/

USA/TRADE/INDO PACIFIC – Is America back? The high politics of trade in the Indo-Pacific (Mireya Solís, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2021/01/04/is-america-back-the-high-politics-of-trade-in-the-indo-pacific/

USA – COVID-19 sparks an overdue discussion on education reform: An optimistic vision (Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Elias Blinkoff, Helen Shwe Hadani, and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff,...

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2021/01/04/covid-19-sparks-an-overdue-discussion-on-education-reform-an-optimistic-vision/

USA – John R. Allen on restoring American leadership in 2021 (John R. Allen and David Dollar, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/john-allen-on-restoring-american-leadership-in-2021/

USA – VictimConnect Evaluation Instruments (Malore Dusenbery, Sara Bastomski, Krista White, Erica Henderson, Urban Institute)

This brief is the seventh of seven toolkit resources supporting the Urban Institute’s formative evaluation of the VictimConnect Resource Center, a nationwide victims’ helpline operated...

USA – VictimConnect Evaluability Assessment (Jennifer Yahner, Malore Dusenbery, Sara Bastomski, Krista White, Urban Institute)

This brief is the third of seven toolkit resources supporting the Urban Institute’s formative evaluation of the VictimConnect Resource Center, a nationwide victims’ helpline operated...

USA – VictimConnect Outcome Evaluation Plan (Sara Bastomski, Jennifer Yahner, Malore Dusenbery, Urban Institute)

This brief is the fifth of seven toolkit resources supporting the Urban Institute’s formative evaluation of the VictimConnect Resource Center. The evaluation was conducted in...

USA – VictimConnect Research Capacity Building (Jennifer Yahner, Malore Dusenbery, Sara Bastomski, Urban Institute)

This brief is the sixth of seven toolkit resources supporting the Urban Institute’s formative evaluation of the VictimConnect Resource Center. The evaluation was conducted in...

USA – Biden, Trump to converge on Georgia before pivotal US Senate vote (Al Jazeera)

President-elect Joe Biden and President Donald Trump will both visit Georgia on Monday, a day before voters in the state cast their ballots in...

USA – Nancy Pelosi narrowly re-elected as US House speaker (Al Jazeera)

Nancy Pelosi has been narrowly re-elected speaker of the United States House of Representatives as a new Congress took office amid the surging coronavirus...

IRAQ/USA – Iraqis demand US troops pull out on Soleimani killing anniversary (Al Jazeera)

Thousands of Iraqi mourners have condemned the “American occupiers”, a year after a United States drone strike killed Iran’s revered general Qassem Soleimani and...

USA/CYBER RISK – Cyber Risk: Lead, Manage, Don’t Accept (Debra Decker, Stimson Center)

https://www.stimson.org/2020/cyber-risk-lead-manage-dont-accept/