Category: Intel

President Biden believes he’s waging an economic war against big business, though that may surprise the general public, which has a long list of other distractions in these fraught times. Biden’s stated struggle is with monopolization — the unfair concentration of power in business, which, the White House now argues, has driven consumer prices ever… Continue reading Biden’s ‘Blue-Collar’ War on Monopolies

You didn’t have to be a magician to recognize the sleight-of-hand when Democrats pulled a “voting rights” campaign out of their Jan. 6 “armed insurrection” hat. Even before President Biden finished his fire-and-brimstone speech condemning Republicans for “placing a dagger at the throat of democracy” in 2021, he and his handlers had pivoted to the… Continue reading Cheapening the Vote: The Other Inflation

In the face of progressives’ persistence in portraying contemporary conservatism as a mortal threat to American democracy, conservative intellectuals have launched the latest round in a learned and hard-hitting debate — as old as the post-World War II conservative movement — about the character of the conservative task. Donald Trump’s tumultuous presidency and his post-presidential… Continue reading The Debate Over ‘Common-Good Conservatism’

The United States Agency for International Development, which monitors foreign elections to ensure fairness and accuracy, asserts that proper elections require “transparency, inclusiveness, and accountability.” The 2020 election in the United States, however, remains one of the least transparent, inclusive, and accountable contests in our nation’s history.  And unfortunately, due to prevailing political headwinds, it… Continue reading 7 Things We’ve Learned About the 2020 Elections

With the recent revelations that China has built mockups of American warships in its interior desert, presumably for military training purposes, we should not need more reminders about the urgency of bolstering deterrence against a possible Chinese attack against Taiwan. For Beijing, undertaking such an attack, especially an all-out invasion, would be a cosmic roll… Continue reading Preventing China from Taking Taiwan

This week, we discuss what could happen if Russia invaded Ukraine; how countries are planning for climate migration; Americans’ feelings on vaccine globalism; the state of democracy in Asia; Taiwan’s new defense strategy; and marijuana legalization. Ukrainian Marines take part in multinational Sea Breeze 2021 military exercises involving more than 30 countries near Kherson, Ukraine,… Continue reading Russia and Ukraine, Climate Migration, Democracy in Asia: RAND Weekly Recap

On 22 May 2021, the United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG) sailed from Portsmouth and embarked on its maiden operational deployment (CSG 21) led by HMS Queen Elizabeth, which at 65,000 tonnes and 280 metres in length, is the largest warship ever built for the Royal Navy (RN). Escorting this new flagship were two Type… Continue reading Ready for Take-Off? The Next Generation of UK Maritime Air Power

Is there a relationship between historically redlined neighborhoods and COVID-19 vaccination rates? How has the pandemic affected incarcerated people? Why do some communities have less access to health care? Those were among the public policy questions that teams of students from three historically Black colleges and universities tackled as part of Hacking Equity. This virtual… Continue reading Hackathon Introduces Undergraduate Students to Public Policy Research

A pandemic is a terrible time to lose health insurance coverage. Yet, for a segment of the 23 million workers who suddenly lost jobs in spring of 2020, that was a fear-inducing possibility. New data from the Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (PDF), among others, show that these fears… Continue reading Temporary Safety-Net Policies Prevented Mass Insurance Loss During the Pandemic