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Aug 18, 2026

Building a Defense-in-Depth Biosecurity Strategy for the AI Era

The authors develop a layered mitigation strategy for responding to the threat of misusing artificial intelligence–enabled biology. They examine mitigations’ strengths and weaknesses, describe areas of mutual reinforcement, and propose next steps.
Research

Aug 18, 2026

Personal Protective Equipment Prioritization and Demand: Using Occupational Characteristics to Understand Risk and Benefits

This report presents an occupation-based framework to estimate vital workforce size and personal protective equipment demand during a pandemic. An interactive dashboard supports scenario-based planning at the national, state, and regional levels.
Expert Insights

Aug 18, 2026

Mirror Biology Research: Implications for Operational Governance

The most pressing deficit in the mirror biology research landscape is the gap between its recognition as a governance challenge and the absence of a concerted effort to govern it; the authors develop a preliminary framework to close this gap.
Commentary

Aug 17, 2026

The State of Public Education in 2026 in Five Charts

RAND has spent more than a decade surveying educators across the United States and has expanded this effort to include the perspectives of students and parents. Among the hundreds of survey questions we fielded this past year, the results depicted in these five charts stood out the most.
Expert Insights

Aug 17, 2026

Integrated Strategic Forecasting: A New Methodology to Enhance Decision Advantage

The authors describe the combined methodology of integrated strategic forecasting, a new exploratory approach to futures and anticipatory planning that leverages the unique advantages of scenario planning and crowdsourced forecasting.
Research

Aug 17, 2026

Tobacco Dependency Treatment Services for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Mixed Methods Rapid Evaluation

The research highlights the importance of a tailored service for people with severe mental illness, but that additional metrics could be more broadly captured on service user outcomes and service costs.
Research

Aug 17, 2026

Virtual Culturally Grounded Interventions for Substance Use in Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Emerging Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial

This paper tests two culturally grounded virtual interventions for substance use among urban American Indian and Alaska Native emerging adults.
Research

Aug 17, 2026

Organizational Resilience in Puerto Rico's Primary Care Clinics: Absorbing, Adapting, and Transforming Under Stress

This paper examines how primary care clinics in Puerto Rico sustain operations under chronic financial, workforce, and infrastructural stress and recurrent disasters, drawing lessons on resilience for safety-net and rural primary care settings more broadly.
Research

Aug 17, 2026

Upgrading Slums as Pathway to Climate Resiliency: Evaluating Urban Infrastructure Impact on Health During Heatwaves

This study provides empirical evidence that slum upgrading programs are associated with meaningful climate adaptation benefits as an unintended consequence.
Research

Aug 17, 2026

Using Iterative Reverse Scenario Logic to Manage Model Risk in Financial Climate Risk Assessment

Examines why global change scenarios and models introduce significant model risk in financial climate risk assessment, and why existing model risk management practices are not fully equipped to address it under deep uncertainty.
Research

Aug 17, 2026

AI Development in the United States and China: Evidence from a New Dataset of AI Developer Firms

The authors sought to systematically characterize commercial artificial intelligence ecosystems within the United States and China and thus broaden the empirical foundation for business intelligence and policy analysis.
Research

Aug 14, 2026

"The Force Is in Our Union": Church-Based Environmental Advocacy Training and Neighborhood Change in East Los Angeles

This study examines how a sample of Latino Catholic parishioners in eastern Los Angeles perceive their role in neighborhood change before and after participating in a park environmental advocacy training.

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Building a Defense-in-Depth Biosecurity Strategy for the AI Era

Personal Protective Equipment Prioritization and Demand: Using Occupational Characteristics to Understand Risk and Benefits

Mirror Biology Research: Implications for Operational Governance

The State of Public Education in 2026 in Five Charts

Integrated Strategic Forecasting: A New Methodology to Enhance Decision Advantage

Tobacco Dependency Treatment Services for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Mixed Methods Rapid Evaluation

Virtual Culturally Grounded Interventions for Substance Use in Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Emerging Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Organizational Resilience in Puerto Rico's Primary Care Clinics: Absorbing, Adapting, and Transforming Under Stress

Upgrading Slums as Pathway to Climate Resiliency: Evaluating Urban Infrastructure Impact on Health During Heatwaves

Using Iterative Reverse Scenario Logic to Manage Model Risk in Financial Climate Risk Assessment

AI Development in the United States and China: Evidence from a New Dataset of AI Developer Firms

"The Force Is in Our Union": Church-Based Environmental Advocacy Training and Neighborhood Change in East Los Angeles

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Modernizing Air Force Training and Education

AI, China, and the New Risks to U.S. Security: Q&A with Matan Chorev

AI and the Future of Emergency Management

Having Trouble Finding Good Workers? They’re Right Under Your Nose

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Building a Defense-in-Depth Biosecurity Strategy for the AI Era

Personal Protective Equipment Prioritization and Demand: Using Occupational Characteristics to Understand Risk and Benefits

Mirror Biology Research: Implications for Operational Governance

The State of Public Education in 2026 in Five Charts

Integrated Strategic Forecasting: A New Methodology to Enhance Decision Advantage

Tobacco Dependency Treatment Services for People with Severe Mental Illness: A Mixed Methods Rapid Evaluation

Virtual Culturally Grounded Interventions for Substance Use in Urban American Indian and Alaska Native Emerging Adults: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Organizational Resilience in Puerto Rico's Primary Care Clinics: Absorbing, Adapting, and Transforming Under Stress

Upgrading Slums as Pathway to Climate Resiliency: Evaluating Urban Infrastructure Impact on Health During Heatwaves

Using Iterative Reverse Scenario Logic to Manage Model Risk in Financial Climate Risk Assessment

AI Development in the United States and China: Evidence from a New Dataset of AI Developer Firms

"The Force Is in Our Union": Church-Based Environmental Advocacy Training and Neighborhood Change in East Los Angeles

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