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Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation During COVID-19
Jan 11, 2022
Michael Dworsky, Bethany Saunders-Medina

As the pandemic continues, states vary on whether or how to allow workers to seek compensation for a COVID-19 diagnosis. It's too early to know the full costs, impacts, and efficacy of these efforts, but now is a good time for policymakers to consider all the arguments for and against coverage.
Veterans Education
How Do Education Benefits Support Veterans’ Transitions to Civilian Life?
Jan 10, 2022
Jennie W. Wenger, Jason M. Ward

Today’s new veterans have access to generous and flexible education benefits through the Post-9/11 GI Bill. But it is difficult to determine the effectiveness of these benefits and who is using them. Additional research could help address these gaps and improve understanding of veterans’ needs.
Decisionmaking
RAND's Impact: Year in Review 2021
Jan 7, 2022

RAND President and CEO Michael Rich offers a year-end assessment of RAND's impact, highlighting ways in which the organization's findings and recommendations are helping to improve the health, security, and prosperity of individuals and communities throughout the world. This Year in Review reflects on RAND's achievements in 2021.
Recidivism
A More Accurate Way to Predict Recidivism Risk in Background Checks
Jan 6, 2022
Shawn D. Bushway, Brian G. Vegetabile, et al.

Roughly 30 percent of people in the United States have criminal histories, so exclusions resulting from background checks can foreclose job and other opportunities for many. But what if it was possible to show that some people pose a low risk of recidivism?
Violent Extremism
Can Extremism Be Addictive?
Jan 5, 2022
Ryan Andrew Brown, Rajeev Ramchand @RRamchand, et al.

Why do former extremists feel drawn back to radical ideological thoughts and long for reengagement with the movements they left? Is it like an addiction? There could be opportunities to apply lessons from addiction research and treatment to efforts to counter hate and violent extremism.
Missile Defense
Weighing the Cost and Necessity of Nuclear Modernization
Jan 3, 2022
Frank G. Klotz, Alexandra T. Evans @AlexandraTEvans

The United States has fielded a Triad of air-, sea-, and land-based nuclear delivery systems since the 1950s. Major components are nearing the end of their service lives, raising the question of whether to extend or replace them. Meanwhile, Russia and China continue to modernize, diversify, and expand their nuclear arsenals.

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International Diplomacy
Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?
Jan 13, 2022
Derek Grossman @DerekJGrossman

Relations with Cambodia and Laos have fallen victim to the U.S. administration's foreign policy priority of shared values over shared interests. This approach has failed to make headway in Cambodia and Laos, isolates the United States in a region where few countries are true democracies, and unnecessarily cedes ground to Beijing.
Russia
Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse
Jan 13, 2022
Samuel Charap @scharap

A statement that NATO has no intention to offer Ukraine membership at present should only be made in return for a tangible drawdown of Russian forces on the border. It concedes nothing to declare that NATO is not planning to do something it has no intention of doing anyway.
Violent Extremism
Extremism and Substance Use Disorder, Criminal Background Checks, Vaccine Diplomacy: RAND Weekly Recap
Jan 7, 2022

This weekly recap focuses on the parallels between extremism and substance use disorder, a better way to measure recidivism risk, global vaccine diplomacy, and more.

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Centering Participatory Action Research in Racial Equity and Global Justice
Dec 15, 2021

Rhianna C. Rogers, director of the RAND Center to Advance Racial Equity Policy, presented to the 13th Geneva Forum on December 15, 2021, at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Workers' Compensation During COVID-19

How Do Education Benefits Support Veterans’ Transitions to Civilian Life?

Geoengineering, the Russia-Ukraine Crisis, Biosimilar Drugs: RAND Weekly Recap

Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?

Centering Participatory Action Research in Racial Equity and Global Justice

The Policy Currents Podcast

Measuring Wellbeing to Help Communities Thrive

Assessing and Articulating the Wider Benefits of Research

Managing Escalation in Crisis and War

Helping Coastal Communities Plan for Climate Change

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Reports

Workers' Compensation During COVID-19

How Do Education Benefits Support Veterans’ Transitions to Civilian Life?

RAND's Impact: Year in Review 2021

A More Accurate Way to Predict Recidivism Risk in Background Checks

Can Extremism Be Addictive?

Weighing the Cost and Necessity of Nuclear Modernization

Blog Posts

Could the U.S. Play Offense in China's Back Yard?

Speaking Aloud What NATO Has Left Unsaid Could Help Ease Ukraine-Russia Impasse

Extremism and Substance Use Disorder, Criminal Background Checks, Vaccine Diplomacy: RAND Weekly Recap

Multimedia

Centering Participatory Action Research in Racial Equity and Global Justice

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