When Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte took office in 2016, he pledged to shift his country’s foreign policy away from the United States—a longstanding treaty ally—in favor of China and Russia. On his first trip to Beijing that year, Duterte tried to butter up his hosts by proclaiming that it was “time to say goodbye to… Continue reading Duterte’s Dalliance with China Is Over
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Japan’s Potential Acquisition of Ground-Launched Land-Attack Missiles: Implications for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
In late August 2017, millions of people in northern Japan got a startling, early morning text message. “Missile alert,” it read, before telling people to take cover. North Korea had launched a ballistic missile, which flew over Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido before landing in the sea. Two weeks later, North Korea fired another missile… Continue reading Japan’s Potential Acquisition of Ground-Launched Land-Attack Missiles: Implications for the U.S.-Japanese Alliance
Tech Assets Might Help Make Public Health Data More Equity-Centered
The COVID-19 pandemic has amplified broad societal inequities and trained a spotlight on the strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. public health system. Chief among these revealed weaknesses is a lack of real-time information that could provide a precise and representative picture of the risks different people face. Tragically, our public health data is still… Continue reading Tech Assets Might Help Make Public Health Data More Equity-Centered
The Danger of the McAuliffe-Abrams Stolen Election Claims
Even in Georgia, it was hard not to notice the Virginia gubernatorial race this week. As Georgia’s chief elections official, I focus on ensuring that my state’s voters continue to have secure, fair, and accessible elections and implementing common-sense election integrity reforms like ID requirements for all voters. But with Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe… Continue reading The Danger of the McAuliffe-Abrams Stolen Election Claims
Achieving Decarbonization and Energy Equity Through Reconciliation
The past two years have witnessed increasingly vocal calls for rapid decarbonization of the global economy through a clean energy transition. A growing list of multibillion-dollar climate disasters in the United States and overseas have underscored vulnerability to the climate and the potential risk of leaving climate change unchecked. Congress is considering the United States’… Continue reading Achieving Decarbonization and Energy Equity Through Reconciliation
The Compounding Effects of Racism: Q&A with James Anderson, Rachel Perera, and Heather Gomez-Bendaña
Systemic racial bias affects Americans of color throughout their lifetimes—in education, employment, housing, and the criminal justice system. But many Americans remain skeptical about bias as a causal factor in the disparities between Black and white Americans. RAND senior behavioral scientist James Anderson, and Rachel Perera and Heather Gomez-Bendaña, both assistant policy researchers at RAND… Continue reading The Compounding Effects of Racism: Q&A with James Anderson, Rachel Perera, and Heather Gomez-Bendaña
Boosting Vaccine Acceptance, Afghanistan’s Refugee Crisis, Environmental Racism: RAND Weekly Recap
We discuss what needs to be done to ensure more Americans get vaccinated against COVID-19; Afghanistan’s worsening refugee crisis; understanding environmental racism; how political polarization may affect health insurance purchasing decisions; helping extremists find pathways to deradicalization; and lessons from past wars in Afghanistan. Photo by valentinrussanov/Getty Images Vaccine hesitancy remains a serious obstacle to… Continue reading Boosting Vaccine Acceptance, Afghanistan’s Refugee Crisis, Environmental Racism: RAND Weekly Recap
PSYOP Regimental Blog
The Shoemaker’s Children Are Barefoot – or who counter’s enemy influence on the US military? A number of publications including the prestigious www.foreignpolicy.com reported on October 21, 2021 that the “U.S. Army Failed to Warn Troops About COVID-19 Disinformation” ( see: https://bit.ly/3vDwnsJ which is also a photo source) According to the article close to… Continue reading PSYOP Regimental Blog
Moscow Hesitated in Poland—Will It in Belarus?
Forty years ago, Russia used a major military exercise in part to scare Poland’s communist leaders into cracking down on protesters, many associated with the independent trade union Solidarity. A similar Russian exercise now could be aimed in part at pressuring Belarus. If so, the West could respond in several ways. On September 10, Russia… Continue reading Moscow Hesitated in Poland—Will It in Belarus?
Back to the 1970s | RealClearWorld
When U.S. President Joe Biden went to Cornwallis, England, to meet with the world leaders of the G7, he wanted to impress upon everyone that Trump’s reign was over. “America is Back!” was the big, bold statement Biden’s team projected throughout the meeting. Months later, as the U.S. scrambled to evacuate military and civilian personnel… Continue reading Back to the 1970s | RealClearWorld