As the 2022 midterm elections near, what will the results mean for politics and policy going forward? Experts in Brookings’s Center for Effective Public Management spent the year analyzing congressional primary data to better understand the candidates, the …
If you are in Turkey, think twice about tweeting this article. With a new controversial social media law, Turkish authorities now have the right to control and, if necessary, restrict online free speech in ways that would be unthinkable in any democracy — …
Apart from human rights and civil liberties concerns, the recent decisions of the Mexican Congress to place the National Guard under the control of the Mexican military and to extend the role of the Mexican military in domestic policing until 2028 also …
As Russia retaliated for Ukraine’s destruction of the Kerch Bridge by launching strikes on energy facilities and civilian targets in Kyiv, commentators returned to the question of whether events were escalating, and whether the world was inching closer to …
As the Biden administration has worked in recent months to develop cryptocurrency regulations, the U.S. government finds itself caught between two extremes: unwilling to actively block cryptocurrency transactions for fear of restricting a growing and …
The Consumer Price Index rose 0.4% in September after only rising 0.1% in August according to the latest release from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, with year-over-year inflation now at 8.2%. On the morning of the release, the Economic Studies program at …
March 2022 marked the first anniversary of the passage of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA). It also marked nearly one year since states, counties, cities, and tribal governments began receiving their shares of the $350 billion ARPA provided toward …
Dozens of empirical studies have found that immigration benefits American workers. Even immigrant workers with little formal education have, with some exceptions, been found to have negligible effects on the wages of similarly educated workers. As part of …
How exactly can communities in these different settings engage at the local level to improve accountability for food and nutrition security outcomes? Many innovative approaches have emerged in recent years. Here, two mechanisms are considered. One is the …
On October 12, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration released the 2022 National Security Strategy (NSS). Brookings experts reflect on the document and what it reveals about the United States’ security trajectory. Shadi Hamid (@shadihamid) Senior …
Jeannie Sowers is a nonresident senior fellow in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution. She is also professor and chair of the Political Science Department at the University of New Hampshire, where she researches and teaches in …
For the past decade, the development of appropriate regulatory standards for the crypto industry has been hampered by interminable debates over whether particular digital assets are securities or commodities or something else. The recent crash in crypto …
What’s the latest thinking in fiscal and monetary policy? The Hutchins Roundup keeps you informed of the latest research, charts, and speeches. Want to receive the Hutchins Roundup as an email? Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Thursday. Natasha …
The world has come together behind the goals of the Paris Agreement, and made progress at COP26 in Glasgow, but actions and commitments made to date fall well short of what is needed. A Climate Club, as called for in the G7 Leaders’ Statement on Climate …
China’s political clock is winding fast toward the convening of the 20th Party Congress. Both the Chinese public and overseas China-watching community will rightly pay close attention to the leadership lineup, which will be announced after the meeting. …
Since receiving $100 million plus in funding in 2016, the Movement for Black Lives, a coalition of organizations and groups aimed to set a collective strategic policy agenda to create racial equity for Black people across the United States, has come under …
Amid controversy over the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, concerns about high inflation and economic uncertainty, and rising threats to the stability of the electoral process and American democracy, the stakes for this year’s midterm elections …
In war, nothing is inevitable and not much is predictable. But the war in Ukraine has a direction that observers can see and that we should name. What began as a criminal Russian aggression against Ukraine has become a proxy war between Washington and …
Today videos and their watchers are stuck. Large video-sharing companies like YouTube and TikTok seek to ensure that users watch and share videos (as much as possible) on their platforms alone. Technically, videos are collections of various data that …
Independent Think Tank Leaders Issue Call to Action for MDB Reform Last July, the Center for Global Development hosted a meeting with other think tanks to exchange perspectives on the multilateral development bank (MDB) system. We shared a common …
