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COVID-19 Testing in Schools, Family Caregivers, U.S. Entrepreneurship: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 12, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on COVID-19 testing in schools, giving a voice to family caregivers, preparing for daylight saving time, and more.
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Telemedicine
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The Doctor Will Call Me Maybe: The Uncertain Future of Audio-Only Visits and Why We Need Them to Address Disparities
Lori Uscher-Pines, Maggie Jones, Jessica L. Sousa, Zachary Predmore, Allison J. Ober
Mar 12, 2021
Health Affairs
Audio-only health care visits have been instrumental in maintaining access to care during the pandemic. Despite this, coverage for audio-only visits is likely temporary. Devaluing and prematurely casting off a key telemedicine modality could mean the difference between a needed doctor visit and no visit at all.
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Military Force Deployment
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Getting Out of Forever Wars: What Are Biden's Options in Afghanistan?
Brian Michael Jenkins @BrianMJenkins
Mar 12, 2021
Military Times
U.S. counterterrorism strategy has long been driven by the assumption that security at home depends on fighting terrorists abroad. How will that square with the president's pledge to end forever wars? Is it possible to get out of warfighting without shutting down vital counterterrorist operations?
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Community Health and Well-Being
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RAND Staff Member Helps Get Masks to Communities in Need
Mar 12, 2021
Jessica Arana, a designer at RAND, volunteers with the Auntie Sewing Squad, a mask-making effort started by comedian Kristina Wong. Arana first donated to the effort but soon became an organizer focused on minority, immigrant, farmworker, and low-income communities.
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Game Theory
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How Game Theory Could Solve the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Puzzle
Luke Muggy
Mar 11, 2021
Fortune
The health systems behind the vaccine rollout are attempting to create order from chaos, sometimes with mixed results. Rather than relying on on-the-fly decisionmaking, state authorities should consider turning to game theory as a tool that could be the key to more efficient, faster vaccine distribution.
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Sleep
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Don't Let 'Springing Forward' Set You Back in Your Relationship
Wendy M. Troxel @wendytroxel
Mar 10, 2021
Psychology Today
When we're sleep-deprived, we're more irritable, more prone to conflict, our communication skills suffer, and we're less empathic. Here are five tips to help you protect the health of your body and your relationship as you and your partner weather the storm of daylight saving time.
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Caregivers
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Giving Family Caregivers a Voice
Mar 10, 2021
One in every five American adults is caring for a loved one in need. Too often, they have to fight to make their voices heard in a health care system that doesn't always see them as the partners in care they can be. More could be done to integrate them into patients' health care teams.
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Military Force Deployment
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Russian Mercenaries in Great-Power Competition: Strategic Supermen or Weak Link?
Molly Dunigan, Ben Connable
Mar 9, 2021
The RAND Blog
The weaknesses within Russian mercenary forces and within the Russian state in relation to press-ganged youths, conscripts, and casualties may offer opportunities for exploitation in great-power competition. These broader weaknesses in Russian national will to fight could be examined to identify more ways to prevent Russia from aggressively undermining Western democracy.
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Employment and Unemployment
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Arts Policy During the Pandemic: What Are We Measuring, and What Can We Know?
James V. Marrone, Susan A. Resetar, Daniel Schwam
Mar 8, 2021
The RAND Blog
Few data sources exist for the labor market for artists. Of the sources that do exist, each measures a different piece of a larger puzzle. Those studying the arts labor market will have to grapple with which data source to use and how “the arts” should be defined before undertaking any analysis.
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Wargaming
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Use Wargaming to Sharpen the Tactical Edge
Sebastian Joon Bae, Paul M. Kearney
Mar 8, 2021
War Room
As a growing consensus embraces the utility of educational wargaming, a more daunting question remains: Can the Joint Force integrate and sustain educational wargaming in the operating forces? The challenges are substantial, but they are not insurmountable. The answer depends on bold leadership, sufficient tools, and eager partners.
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Community Health and Well-Being
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What Communities Need to Thrive: Q&A with Anita Chandra
Mar 8, 2021
Anita Chandra, vice president and director of RAND Social and Economic Well-Being, focuses on issues of health, well-being, and equity. She is researching how to create a culture of health, how to address inequities in the U.S. health system, and disaster response and resilience, especially in the context of the pandemic.
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Yemen
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Pathways Toward Peace in Yemen: National Reconciliation or a 'Phased' Approach?
Daniel Egel, Trevor Johnston
Mar 5, 2021
The RAND Blog
Any pathway to an enduring peace in Yemen could take decades to recover from the economic, political, and social costs of this civil war. A phased approach could require patience from the Yemeni people and a robust and enduring commitment from the international community. But war has brought Yemen to this point, and there are few remaining options.
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Teacher Training
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Teachers Lost Out on Professional Learning During the Pandemic. Here's How Summer Programs Could Help
Elizabeth D. Steiner @ED_Steiner, Laura Stelitano
Mar 5, 2021
The RAND Blog
For thousands of teachers across the United States, 2020 was a year of uncertainty. Many lacked access to their usual professional learning activities. Summer programs for students that also offer learning opportunities for teachers might help make up for lost time.
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Vaccination
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Vaccine Hesitancy, Sexual Misconduct in the U.S. Military, the Iran Nuclear Deal: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 5, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on Black Americans' vaccine hesitancy, sexual harassment and sexual assault in the U.S. military, rejoining the Iran nuclear deal, and more.
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Open Source Intelligence
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An Early Policy Victory for DNI Haines: Boost the Priority of Open Sources Information
John V. Parachini, J.D. Williams, Andrew Charles Roberts
Mar 4, 2021
The Hill
The quantity, quality, and accessibility of publicly available information has exploded over the past decades. Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines has an opportunity to advance intelligence community mission activities on several key issues shaped by the digital information age, including the role of publicly available information.
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Quoted

As shown in Afghanistan, the United States faces a tradeoff between incorporating allied views into U.S. decisions and compromising allies' support for U.S. policy. If the United States is serious about strengthening alliances and burden-sharing, this may require finding ways to better incorporate allied concerns into U.S. decisionmaking.

Andrew Radin

Political Scientist

Source: War on the Rocks

The nuclear weapons the United States already has should be adequate to counter the threat posed by new Chinese missiles even under very pessimistic assumptions. And if U.S. officials eventually decide they have to target the Chinese silos, nonnuclear weapons and sensors would provide a more credible deterrent than building additional nuclear weapons would.

Edward Geist

Policy Researcher

Source: The Washington Post

ExpertLens: An Online Modified-Delphi Approach to Stakeholder Engagement and Expert Elicitation

How Could the U.S. Military Counter Extremism in Its Ranks?

Reconsidering U.S. Decisionmaking Within NATO After the Fall of Kabul

Russia's Neighbors Have More Leverage Than They Think

Afghanistan’s Refugee Crisis: Forty Years in the Making

The Policy Currents Podcast

Developing Strategies for Summer Learning

Improving Psychological Wellbeing and Work Outcomes in the UK

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

Getting to Know Military Caregivers and Their Needs

The RAND Blog

COVID-19 Testing in Schools, Family Caregivers, U.S. Entrepreneurship: RAND Weekly Recap

The Doctor Will Call Me Maybe: The Uncertain Future of Audio-Only Visits and Why We Need Them to Address Disparities

Getting Out of Forever Wars: What Are Biden's Options in Afghanistan?

RAND Staff Member Helps Get Masks to Communities in Need

How Game Theory Could Solve the COVID-19 Vaccine Rollout Puzzle

Don't Let 'Springing Forward' Set You Back in Your Relationship

Giving Family Caregivers a Voice

Russian Mercenaries in Great-Power Competition: Strategic Supermen or Weak Link?

Arts Policy During the Pandemic: What Are We Measuring, and What Can We Know?

Use Wargaming to Sharpen the Tactical Edge

What Communities Need to Thrive: Q&A with Anita Chandra

Pathways Toward Peace in Yemen: National Reconciliation or a 'Phased' Approach?

Teachers Lost Out on Professional Learning During the Pandemic. Here's How Summer Programs Could Help

Vaccine Hesitancy, Sexual Misconduct in the U.S. Military, the Iran Nuclear Deal: RAND Weekly Recap

An Early Policy Victory for DNI Haines: Boost the Priority of Open Sources Information

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