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    Will the New 988 Hotline Be a Game Changer for Mental Health or a Missed Opportunity?

    Ryan K. McBain @ryankmcbain, Stephanie Brooks Holliday

    Jun 20, 2022

    Los Angeles Times

    Someone dies from suicide in the United States every 11 minutes, a rate that has increased almost 30 percent since 2000. The 988 mental health hotline will launch on July 16, but states need to clear significant hurdles: funding the expanded crisis response system and making sure people know it's available.

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    States Have Leading Role to Play in Preventing Mass Shootings

    Katya Migacheva, Jordan R. Reimer @Jordan_R_Reimer

    Jun 13, 2022

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    As the United States grapples with how to prevent mass shootings, state governments might be best positioned to take the lead on long-term, sustainable efforts that prevent targeted violence.

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    The Gun Laws That Work, and the Gun Laws That Don't

    Andrew R. Morral @AndrewMorral

    May 27, 2022

    The Washington Post

    Are certain gun laws and regulations likely to improve or worsen public safety? At a time when many Americans are searching for solutions to the country's intolerably high rates of gun violence, social scientists can help provide answers.

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    Extremism Online, Russia's Military, Preventing Police Killings: RAND Weekly Recap

    May 20, 2022

    This weekly recap focuses on the internet's role in stoking extremism and hate, how Russia has failed its military personnel, a research roadmap to help prevent police killings in the United States, and more.

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    Exploring the Disagreement Among Gun Policy Experts

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    A survey asked gun policy researchers, advocates, and congressional staffers who work on gun issues for their views on policies ranging from weapon bans to stand-your-ground laws. Regardless of where they stood, they were not so dissimilar in what they thought gun policies should be trying to accomplish.

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    This weekly recap focuses on the false choice between responding to Russia or deterring China, how substance use and sex trafficking are connected, providing anti-bias education in U.S. schools, and more.

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    RAND Commentary Highlights of 2021

    Dec 21, 2021

    Vaccine rollouts, an attack on the U.S. Capitol, massive ransomware attacks, the withdrawal from Afghanistan, record numbers of job openings and people quitting, and more. RAND researchers weighed in on all these topics and more.

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    This weekly recap focuses on why the United States doesn’t need more nuclear weapons, increased infant deaths during the pandemic, preventing veteran suicide, and more.

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    Criminal Justice in the Pandemic Era and Beyond

    Sep 7, 2021

    The pandemic forced the entire criminal justice system to adapt and innovate in ways it never had before. How can the lessons of COVID-19 improve the future of criminal justice?

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    Jonathan W. Welburn @jwwelburn, Quentin E. Hodgson @QHodgson

    Aug 9, 2021

    Los Angeles Times

    To rein in ransomware attacks, the United States needs to upend the risk-reward ratio for hackers and for the countries that harbor or support them. Such a strategy would make networks harder to breach, hit back harder against hackers, and claw back gains from those who succeed.

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    Paying College Athletes, Preventing Suicide, Planning for Heatwaves: RAND Weekly Recap

    Jul 16, 2021

    This weekly recap focuses on a potential step toward paying college athletes, helping college freshmen overcome COVID-19 learning loss, the effects of U.S. sanctions in Syria, more.

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    Is DarkSide Really Sorry? Is It Even DarkSide?

    Anu Narayanan, Jonathan W. Welburn @jwwelburn

    May 19, 2021

    Defense One

    The U.S. military relies heavily on commercial energy assets, making the implications of events like the Colonial Pipeline outage more serious than just higher prices at the gas pump. The origins and severity of an attack dictate what the United States might do in response.

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    Apr 29, 2021

    President Joe Biden addressed a joint session of Congress, summarizing his administration's early COVID-19 response and outlining plans that aim to loosen the pandemic's year-long grip on a weary nation. The speech reflected the fact that the United States faces policy challenges across a wide range of domains.

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    Domestic Violence Support Staff Need More Help to Tackle Challenges of the 'Shadow Pandemic'

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    Mar 15, 2021

    Encompass

    During the first wave of COVID-19 lockdowns, European Union states had a 60 percent increase in emergency calls about intimate-partner violence. Amid a protracted second wave that has led to further lockdowns, it may not be too late to provide the funding and legislative changes necessary to ensure domestic violence service providers can offer crucial support.

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