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Satellites
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Satellite Internet Services—Fostering the Dictator's Dilemma?
Michael Schwille @MichaelSchwille, Scott Fisher
Apr 12, 2021
Small Wars Journal
The ability to provide relatively low cost internet access outside of government control is both a challenge for authoritarian states and an opportunity for democracies. What are low-altitude, low-latency satellites and why are authoritarian states so concerned?
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Open Source Intelligence
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The Intelligence Community's Deadly Bias Toward Classified Sources
Cortney Weinbaum @cortney_dc
Apr 12, 2021
Defense One
Even when relevant data is publicly available, U.S. intelligence analysts are not including it in their analytic products during their routine course of business. This willful ignorance of publicly available information is hurting U.S. national security.
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Science and Technology Legislation
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Scientific Research Integrity Demands Transparency—the Law Should Require It Too
Cortney Weinbaum @cortney_dc
Apr 12, 2021
China pays U.S. scientists for their innovations in exchange for money and access to research laboratories and speaking and publication opportunities. They require the researchers to keep these agreements secret from their employers or the U.S. government. Perhaps it is time to codify scientific transparency into law.
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U.S. Postal Service
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The U.S. Post Office Is a Public Service, Not a Business
Michael S. Pollard @MichaelSPollard, Lois M. Davis @LoisMDavis
Apr 6, 2021
The National Interest
As Congress and the White House debate how to assist the USPS, it will be important to understand the impacts of proposed cost-cutting measures not only on mail delivery of vital services, on smaller and rural communities, and on low-income communities where last-mile delivery is especially important for residents, but also on the broader public safety and security functions USPS performs.
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Military Strategy
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The Suez Grounding Was an Accident. The Next Blocked Chokepoint Might Not Be
Scott Savitz
Mar 30, 2021
Defense One
The recent spectacle of a hulking container ship wedged into the Suez Canal is a reminder of how vulnerable maritime transportation is to blocked chokepoints. The fragility of maritime lifelines may encourage the use of this tactic in future conflict.
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Artificial Intelligence
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Towards an AI-Based Counter-Disinformation Framework
Linda Slapakova
Mar 29, 2021
Hague Diplomacy Blog
Artificial intelligence is being used to develop sophisticated malign information on social media. But AI also provides opportunities to strengthen responses to these threats and can foster wider resilience to disinformation.
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Infrastructure Finance
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Navigating Speed Bumps to a Possible Federal Vehicle Miles Traveled Fee
Liisa Ecola, Laura Patton
Mar 26, 2021
The Hill
It's been clear for years that the gas tax has been losing its ability to pay for America's existing roads and bridges, let alone improvements and new construction. A vehicle miles traveled fee could provide a potential option for a 21st-century transportation funding system.
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Vaccination
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Game Theory to Help the Vaccine Rollout, Abraham Accords, Telehealth: RAND Weekly Recap
Mar 19, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on how game theory can help the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, potential economic benefits of the Abraham Accords, telemedicine use during the pandemic, 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, Zach 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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Global Climate Change
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California Needs a More Flexible Approach to Sea Level Rise Planning
Robert J. Lempert @RobertLempert, David Behar
Feb 18, 2021
San Diego Union Tribune
Rising seas create significant risk to the health, safety, and economic vitality of California's coast communities, and we must prepare. A contingency-planning approach would provide flexible action over time and would build capacity that California and the nation need to respond to the many other serious and growing climate-related risks.
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Emerging Technologies
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Tech Alone Isn't Enough to Create a Successful Smart City
Jared Mondschein @JSMondschein, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg @aclarkginsberg, Andreas Kuehn
Feb 10, 2021
Route Fifty
Smart-city initiatives are popping up in small communities and large metropolitan regions alike. But these initiatives have run into significant hurdles. Some cities have developed frameworks to overcome these challenges, but many continue to struggle.
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Space Science and Technology
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Navigating Norms for the New Space Era
Chad J. R. Ohlandt, Bruce McClintock @BHMcClintock, Stephen J. Flanagan
Feb 8, 2021
The National Interest
To make better progress on global norms for responsible behavior in space, the U.S. defense and intelligence communities might first consider reaching a consensus among themselves on what these norms should be. Until they reconcile their differences the United States will be less likely be in a position to play a leadership role.
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Employment and Unemployment
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Unemployment Insurance, Domestic Extremists, Housing Insecurity: RAND Weekly Recap
Feb 5, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on what the pandemic has revealed about America's unemployment system, why stopping domestic extremism will be difficult, how housing insecurity may affect sleep, and more.
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Pharmaceutical Drugs
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Prescription Drug Prices, Transgender Troops, Space Diplomacy: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 29, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on America's high prescription drug prices, allowing transgender troops in the military, food insecurity in Black neighborhoods, and more.
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Educational Technology
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School District Leaders Indicate Online Instruction Will Outlast COVID-19. Here's What to Consider
Heather L. Schwartz, Paul T. Hill
Jan 27, 2021
The 74
Remote K–12 learning at scale is an unprecedented challenge for everyone involved. It can and would improve dramatically if educators, government, and philanthropy treated it as a work in progress, featuring evidence-based development of quality online curricula, continuous improvement, and engagement of teachers.
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Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
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Keeping COVID-19 Vaccines Moving, the Capitol Attack, Media Literacy: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 22, 2021
This weekly recap focuses on keeping COVID-19 vaccines moving to save more lives; why we need a national commission to investigate the U.S. Capitol attack; media literacy as a tool to counter "Truth Decay," and more.
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