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Artificial Intelligence Applications to Support Teachers
Artificial intelligence could support teachers rather than replace them. But before the promise of AI in the classroom can be realized, risks and technical challenges must be addressed.

Global Climate Change

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Triaging Climate Change

There are many opportunities to manage climate risk around the world, but not everything can be saved. Delaying triage of climate damages could leave societies making ad hoc decisions instead of focusing on protecting the things they value most.
Border and Port Security

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Shutdown Could Provide Opening for Adversaries to Corrupt Those Protecting the U.S. Homeland

Every day that the government shutdown continues prolongs the financial hardship for those on the front lines protecting the United States and gives cartels and transnational criminal organizations an opening to try to corrupt the DHS ranks. As negotiations continue to stall, the Trump administration and Congress should consider taking steps to guard against this vulnerability.
Peacekeeping and Stability Operations

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Likely Effects of a Precipitous U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Winning may not be an option in Afghanistan, but an early departure of U.S. forces without a peace settlement will mean choosing to lose. The result will be the weakening of deterrence and the value of American reassurance elsewhere, an increased terrorist threat, and the possibility of having to return there under worse conditions.
Community Resilience

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Middle Eastern Communities Can Resist Sectarianism

Sectarian violence in the Middle East has been destructive, but it is still the exception rather than the norm. Communities are generally resilient to the worst sectarian impulses. Lessons from Lebanon, Bahrain, Syria, and Iraq show that there are a range of actions that can curb sectarianism.

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When we talk about heroin-assisted treatment, we're not talking about legalizing heroin and making it for sale at CVS. This is not a first-line intervention. This is for people who have tried evidence-based treatments multiple times.
Beau Kilmer

Codirector, RAND Drug Policy Research Center
Source: Healthline
If instability developed in North Korea, China may well be at greater risk from terrorists or Chinese dissident groups seizing North Korean nuclear weapons and using them against China. China would be very likely to intervene...
Bruce W. Bennett

Senior International/Defense Researcher
Source: South China Morning Post
If the second U.S.-North Korea summit turns out to be a repetition of the first talks, it will be of extremely limited value. Grand statements are not enough, if denuclearization is to make any progress. There needs to be working-level negotiations.
Naoko Aoki

Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow
Source: Bloomberg Quint
It does look like safe [firearm] storage laws can reduce lives lost to suicide and unintentional injury. And you know that's an endorsement, definitely, for safe storage.
Andrew R. Morral

Senior Behavioral Scientist
Source: Oregon Public Broadcasting
Most people substituting cannabis for opioids are not using either drug medicinally. Moreover, research does not suggest that cannabis is a substitute for heroin or fentanyl, the major drivers of the epidemic today.
Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Director, Bing Center for Health Economics
Source: NBC News

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RAND Corporation Provides Objective Research Services and Public Policy Analysis

Artificial Intelligence Applications to Support Teachers

Triaging Climate Change

Shutdown Could Provide Opening for Adversaries to Corrupt Those Protecting the U.S. Homeland

Likely Effects of a Precipitous U.S. Withdrawal from Afghanistan

Middle Eastern Communities Can Resist Sectarianism

North Korea's Expanding Nuclear Program Drives a Complex Set of Problems

More Educators Should Set Goals for Social and Emotional Learning

Holistic Representation Can Reduce Incarceration and Save Taxpayer Dollars

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