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U.S. Weapons Are the Main Source of Illegal Arms on the Dark Web

The dark web enables an illicit market for firearms, explosives, and ammunition. Its potential to anonymously arm criminals and terrorists, as well as vulnerable and fixated individuals, is the most dangerous aspect. Sixty percent of the arms for sale are from the United States.

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A Surgical Strike Against North Korea? Not a Viable Option

North Korea's July 4 launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit American soil has renewed talk of military intervention. But an effective limited military strike with minimal collateral damage and no escalation simply won't work.
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Moving Beyond Mosul

The Islamic State group has been defeated in Mosul. But this military routing isn't enough to ensure lasting stability, either in Mosul or in Iraq more broadly. What comes next will require careful planning, diplomacy, implementation, and coordination.
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Pittsburgh's Options to Address Lead in Its Water

The City of Pittsburgh is struggling to address the issue of lead in its water. It has initiated various solutions, but there is ongoing debate about whether current actions are sufficient to protect residents, which actions are proving most effective, and what new measures should be considered.
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Finding the Common Ground: Building a Brexit Around Trade and Single Market Access

The priority for the UK government during Brexit negotiations should be access to the single market and free trade deals with countries outside the EU. This would build on the common ground felt by the majority of Britons about what they feel are the most valuable aspects of the UK's future relationship with Europe.
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Personalized Learning: Lessons from Implementation

Personalized learning focuses on meeting students' individual needs while incorporating their interests and preferences. What does this look like in schools that have implemented personalized learning schoolwide?
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A Colombian Survivor's Crusade to Strengthen Punishment for Acid Attacks

Acid attacks, one of the most extreme forms of violence against women and girls, can have devastating consequences. Officials could address this problem by making it tough to get dangerous chemicals, punishing perpetrators, and helping survivors.
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Are America's Overseas Security Commitments Worth It?

A growing debate has called into question U.S. international security commitments and whether their economic value outweighs their costs. Research suggests that the magnitude of the benefits could be substantial.
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Ingredients for Health Care Reform

Despite their differences, the Affordable Care Act and the current proposals to replace it take a similar approach to providing health insurance. What might some alternatives look like? And how could they provide coverage to more Americans?
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Strengthening Strategic Stability with Russia

Strategic stability between the United States and Russia is eroding, but the two countries still share a deep interest in avoiding nuclear war. Strengthening stability will be challenging. Meaningful progress will require courage and sacrifices on both sides.

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The threat posed by individuals or small groups obtaining weapons illegally from the dark web is real. The ability to not only arm criminals and terrorists… but also vulnerable and fixated individuals is perhaps the most dangerous aspect.
Giacomo Persi Paoli

Research Leader
Source: RAND News Release
This isn't neo-colonialism by the Chinese or an attempt at world domination by spreading their ideology. They are expanding a bit in Africa to gather resources to build their economy. Their extension to East Africa and Latin America is an economic move...
John Gordon IV

Senior Policy Researcher
Source: Clearance Jobs News
Iraq does have a strategic importance for the United States. I don't think it requires a large number of U.S. conventional forces but it does require the U.S. to remain and have access to Iraqi bases, to continue to train Iraq's counterterrorism service... to train Iraqi police forces.
Seth G. Jones

Director, International Security and Defense Policy Center
Source: Fox News
When I look at Afghanistan, the primary threat that I see is government collapse. So it's not the Taliban, it's not ISIS, it's the collapse of the government, which under the right conditions could lead to multi-party civil war.
S. Rebecca Zimmerman

Policy Researcher
Source: USA Today
[In the future of autonomous vehicles] cities can be designed for people rather than vehicles.
Nidhi Kalra

Director, San Francisco Bay Area Office
Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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