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Educational Equity
commentary
Digital Learning Needs to Benefit All Children When Schools Close
Axelle Devaux @AxelleDevaux
May 4, 2020
EU Reporter
Three factors are essential for any digital learning method. First, it must be inclusive. Second, it should support the learning experience, not replace it. And third, evidence of what works should inform digital learning interventions.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
commentary
Planning for the Upcoming Hurricane Season in Light of COVID-19
Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Gary Cecchine @GaryCecchine, Craig Fugate, Craig A. Bond
May 4, 2020
Vox
What if Hurricane Katrina had hit during a pandemic? Emergency planners can prepare for this scenario by evaluating current response system capacity, evacuation and sheltering procedures, food and supply issues, and more.
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Community Health and Well-Being
q&a
Reopening America—The Health and Economic Trade-Offs: Q&A with RAND Experts
May 4, 2020
Local and state officials are thinking through whether, when, and how to lift social-distancing restrictions. We asked three RAND researchers about the complex problem of reopening.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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A Proposed COVID-19 Cure, Economic Decline, North Korea: RAND Weekly Recap
May 1, 2020
This weekly recap focuses on the unintended consequences of a proposed COVID-19 treatment, another wave of economic destruction, North Korea after Kim Jong Un, and more.
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Law Enforcement
commentary
State Police Powers: A Less Than Optimal Remedy for the COVID-19 Disease
Douglas C. Ligor @DougLigor
May 1, 2020
United Press International
How can the United States face what may be a growing threat of pandemics without having to exercise powers so extraordinary that they not only restrict fundamental rights and liberties, but also damage or jeopardize the economic livelihood of so many?
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Food Supply Security
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In Pittsburgh: Feeding the Needy, and Protecting Workers on the Front Lines of the Pandemic
Andrea Richardson @ASRichardson3, Tamara Dubowitz @TamaraDubowitz
Apr 30, 2020
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Access to food could be critical to getting through the COVID-19 pandemic. Local leaders and policymakers may find themselves having to devote new resources to make sure all citizens have access to food and to protect those on the front lines.
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Residential Housing
commentary
From Lockdown to Locked Out: Coronavirus and the Looming Crisis in Rental Housing
Alina I. Palimaru, Jason M. Ward, Amy L. Shearer, Marcus Dillistone
Apr 30, 2020
Dallas Morning News
Housing security is vital to individual and collective well-being. It's also a key component in the nation's economic performance. The looming coronavirus eviction crisis suggests the need to address the systemic problem of housing affordability and security now.
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Advance Directives
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Your Gift to Health Care Providers, Yourself, and Your Family
Stefan Timmermans, Chloe E. Bird @ChloeBirdPhD
Apr 30, 2020
Council on Contemporary Families
A whispered secret in medicine is that resuscitative efforts do not typically save a life. In anticipation of the pandemic surge, hospitals are discussing blanket do-not-resuscitate orders for patients dying from the coronavirus. It is time to publicly and privately discuss the limits of cardiopulmonary resuscitation so patients stricken with COVID-19 can make informed end-of-life decisions and make those decisions known to their closest relatives.
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Military Budgets and Defense Spending
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Be Wary of Proposals for Less Defense Budget Transparency
Miranda Priebe @MirandaPriebe
Apr 29, 2020
Breaking Defense
The Pentagon has asked Congress to end the requirement that it make public an unclassified version of the Future Years Defense Program—the department's budget plans for at least the next five years. Although some information needs to be classified, the value of transparency for public debate and oversight in a democracy outweighs the marginal intelligence gains to U.S. adversaries.
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Pharmaceutical Drugs
commentary
The Unintended Consequences of a Proposed Cure for COVID-19
Samantha McBirney, Sangita M. Baxi @sangitabaxi, Krishna B. Kumar @kbkumar_, Todd A. Richmond
Apr 29, 2020
The Hill
The very discussion of chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as therapeutic options against COVID-19 has decreased their availability for proven treatments, exacerbated global shortages, fueled a rampant counterfeit drug market in Africa, and worsened trade tensions. What can be done to deal with these unintended consequences?
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Women's Health
commentary
Do We Know How to Treat Alcohol Misuse in Women?
Kristie L. Gore, Sydne Newberry, Susanne Hempel
Apr 29, 2020
The RAND Blog
Despite the many clinical trials that have demonstrated the effectiveness and safety of treatments for alcohol use disorder, we still know little about whether men and women respond differently to treatment. Without knowing whether recommended treatments are effective for women, women are vulnerable to the consequences of alcohol misuse.
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North Korea
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North Korea After Kim Jong Un: 'How' Matters More Than 'Who'
Soo W. Kim @mllesookim
Apr 28, 2020
Nikkei Asian Review
With rumors swirling that Kim Jong Un has suffered a health crisis, some are already asking who might succeed him as leader of North Korea. But who is not the most important question. What will matter more is what the new regime does to establish its legitimacy and how the United States and its allies respond.
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Supply Chain Management
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Supply Chain Disruptions Due to COVID-19 and Social Distancing
Aaron Strong, Jonathan William Welburn @jwwelburn
Apr 28, 2020
The RAND Blog
There are significant epidemiological and economic risks and uncertainties with physical distancing policies put into effect in the United States to reduce the growth of COVID-19. We have estimated the economy-wide impacts of a set of these policies to provide a sense of their likely economic toll.
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Media Literacy
article
What Americans Think of the News—and What That Means for Democracy
Apr 28, 2020
RAND researchers asked a nationally representative sample of adults about their news-consumption habits. The answers reveal clues about what it might take to address Truth Decay, the decline of facts in U.S. public life.
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International Diplomacy
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How the Global Community Can Cooperate to Defeat COVID-19 and Recover
Charles P. Ries @charles_ries
Apr 28, 2020
The Wall Street Journal
The G20 met in an extraordinary virtual summit March 26 to discuss the shared global challenge of COVID-19. G20 countries could show the way for the rest of the world to cooperate on present challenges and prepare for public policy challenges moving forward.
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Facebook Users May Spread Russian Propaganda Less Often If They Know Its Source

Russian Propaganda, Domestic Terrorism, America's Electric Grid: RAND Weekly Recap

PIF Fragmentation May Alter U.S.-China Competition in the Pacific

Is the United States Postal Service Essential?

The Policy Currents Podcast

Measuring Wellbeing to Help Communities Thrive

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Planning for the Rising Costs of Dementia

Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

The RAND Blog

Digital Learning Needs to Benefit All Children When Schools Close

Planning for the Upcoming Hurricane Season in Light of COVID-19

Reopening America—The Health and Economic Trade-Offs: Q&A with RAND Experts

A Proposed COVID-19 Cure, Economic Decline, North Korea: RAND Weekly Recap

State Police Powers: A Less Than Optimal Remedy for the COVID-19 Disease

In Pittsburgh: Feeding the Needy, and Protecting Workers on the Front Lines of the Pandemic

From Lockdown to Locked Out: Coronavirus and the Looming Crisis in Rental Housing

Your Gift to Health Care Providers, Yourself, and Your Family

Be Wary of Proposals for Less Defense Budget Transparency

The Unintended Consequences of a Proposed Cure for COVID-19

Do We Know How to Treat Alcohol Misuse in Women?

North Korea After Kim Jong Un: 'How' Matters More Than 'Who'

Supply Chain Disruptions Due to COVID-19 and Social Distancing

What Americans Think of the News—and What That Means for Democracy

How the Global Community Can Cooperate to Defeat COVID-19 and Recover

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