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  • Iran's President Hassan Rouhani takes questions from journalists during a news conference in New York September 27, 2013
    International Diplomacy

    commentary

    The U.S.-Iran Wrestling Match

    Alireza Nader

    Sep 27, 2013

    Inter Press Service

    According to Khamenei, the Islamic Republic is willing to engage its enemy, or show “flexibility,” in order to win the overall competition. However, Khamenei and the Revolutionary Guards have also laid out clear red lines for Rouhani. He is to demonstrate no weakness or “humility” with the opponent, the United States.

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  • Doctors reviewing an x-ray in reception area
    Affordable Care Act

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    Will ACA Implementation Lead to a Spike in Demand for Care?

    David I. Auerbach

    Sep 27, 2013

    The Health Care Blog

    The growing number of Americans newly-insured under the ACA will undoubtedly lead to a surge in demand for care, whether through Medicaid or insurance exchanges. But, if predictions hold, the increase won't be as dramatic as some may fear, writes David I. Auerbach.

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  • U.S. soldiers on a joint patrol with the Afghan National Army
    Asymmetric Warfare

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    New RAND Report Updates, Expands Research on Successful Counterinsurgency Approaches

    Sep 27, 2013

    When a country is threatened by an insurgency, what efforts give its government the best chance of prevailing? A new update to a RAND 2010 study expands the data set of 30 insurgencies to 71 and compares all 71 of them begun and completed worldwide since World War II.

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  • Norway's newly elected prime minister Erna Solberg
    Security Cooperation

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    Could Norway Be Key to a Future Syria Strike?

    Christopher S. Chivvis

    Sep 26, 2013

    CNN

    If Syrian acceptance of the Russia-backed plan that is supposed to see it give up its chemical weapons turns out to be a stalling tactic — as many believe it is — support for strikes from allies like Norway will be all the more important to the White House, writes Christopher S. Chivvis.

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  • U.N. chemical weapons experts investigating a gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians in the suburbs of Damascus
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    The Hidden Conclusions in the U.N.'s Syria Gas Report

    James T. Quinlivan

    Sep 25, 2013

    U.S. News & World Report

    The lethality of the munitions used in Syria point directly to an actor with significant capacities and long experience using chemical weaponry and artillery, writes James T. Quinlivan. And that fingers the notoriously abusive Assad regime, not the outmatched, outgunned and frantically improvising rebels.

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    RAND's Teacher Bonus Research Recognized by U.S. Dept. of Education

    Sep 24, 2013

    The U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences recognized a RAND report on the effects of teacher bonuses in New York City public schools last week. IES added the report, A Big Apple for Educators, to its What Works Clearinghouse.

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  • Russia's President Vladimir Putin welcomes U.S. President Barack Obama before the first working session of the G20 Summit on September 5, 2013
    Security Cooperation

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    The Road on from Damascus: What the Syria Deal Means for the U.S. and Russia

    Olga Oliker

    Sep 23, 2013

    The RAND Blog

    The deal the United States and Russia struck to get rid of Syria's chemical weaponry is neither a sign of a sea change in relations nor a victory for one party over the other, writes Olga Oliker. It is, however, something of a testament to diplomacy on both sides.

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  • Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei casts his ballot in central Tehran June 14, 2013
    International Diplomacy

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    Obama Should Take Iran's Overture Seriously

    Alireza Nader

    Sep 23, 2013

    Politico

    If his words are any guide, Iran's supreme leader is pivoting to diplomacy. Long an advocate of “resistance” to the United States, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei now praises his new president, Hassan Rouhani, for his administration's “heroic” and “artful” approach toward foreign policy.

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  • North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un visits a newly built arcade at the amusement house of the Rungna People's Pleasure Park
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    North Korea's Coming Collapse

    Sep 20, 2013

    he North Korean government could collapse at any time, setting off a humanitarian disaster of historic proportions, according to Bruce Bennett

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  • Labourers work at a railway station construction site in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa
    International Economic Relations

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    New RAND Study Examines Chinese Economic Assistance to Other Countries

    Sep 19, 2013

    With the world's second largest economy, China has the capacity to engage in substantial programs of economic assistance and government-sponsored investments in 93 emerging-market countries.

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  • Syrian Americans rally in support of the Bashar al-Assad regime and against proposed U.S. military action against Syria
    Arms Proliferation and Control

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    A Smarter Way to Stop Syria WMD Attacks

    Ben Connable, Jonah Blank, Austin Long

    Sep 19, 2013

    CNN

    President Obama made a strong case that the U.S. should take the lead in punishing the Syrian regime for its use of chemical weapons and actively enforce the near-global ban on these weapons. Now, the possibility of a diplomatic solution to this problem offers an opportunity to improve the request for the authorization of force currently before Congress.

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  • Domestic Intelligence

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    Needed: Sustainable Spying Oversight

    Brian A. Jackson

    Sep 18, 2013

    U.S. News & World Report

    Domestic intelligence in the United States is an activity with a history, and efforts to consider future policy on this issue need to take that history into account, writes Brian Jackson. Public acceptability must be part of the calculus in devising oversight and control of intelligence efforts.

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    Data Science

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    RAND Designs Web Registry for Developing-Country Impact Evaluations

    Sep 18, 2013

    Announcement about RAND's work designing a web registry for impact evaluations in developing countries

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    Antimicrobial Resistance

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    Who Killed Mrs X? The Global Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance

    Jonathan Grant, Jirka Taylor

    Sep 18, 2013

    The RAND Blog

    Antimicrobial drugs are no longer working as they once did. The bugs that they are supposed to attack are becoming increasingly resistant. Microbes follow the same rules of evolution as we do. Through reproduction and natural selection the fittest survive.

    Read More »
  • Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey,Navy Memorial,Navy Yard Shooting,Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel
    Victims of Crime

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    Americans' Hearts, but Not Necessarily Wallets, Will Be Open for Victims of Navy Yard Shootings

    Paul Heaton

    Sep 18, 2013

    The RAND Blog

    Comparisons are already being drawn between Monday's terrible events in the Washington Navy Yard and other recent high profile mass shootings, including those that occurred last year in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo. However, one way in which this shooting may differ from other events is in who — if anybody — provides financial compensation for those who are injured.

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