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Delivering the vote: How 4 pressures are testing the Postal Service’s role in American elections

Elena Patel

July 10, 2026

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte (L) and US President Donald Trump meet on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Ankara, on July 8, 2026.

A fractured front? Inside the Ankara NATO summit

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Mara Karlin, Thomas Wright

July 10, 2026

How do rural communities fit into FEMA’s disaster response and recovery?

Anthony F. Pipa, Julia Davatzes

July 9, 2026

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Strategies to restore lifetime income to retirement plans

Gopi Shah Goda, Joshua Gotbaum, Aidan Creeron, Lily Nevo

July 9, 2026

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USMCA review reviewed: Lessons from the first use of USMCA’s review mechanism

Maricarmen Barron Esper, Christopher Sands

July 2, 2026

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America at 250

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Immigrants & Immigration America is turning 250. Here’s how immigration may shape its future.

William H. Frey

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Economic Development The racial wealth gap undermines the declaration’s promise

Andre M. Perry

Children stand with the American flag and a sign that reads "one nation" on the eve of the inauguration of Barack Obama in January 2009.

U.S. Democracy Protest changes policy when communities stay organized

Rashawn Ray

Words from the opening section of the Declaration of Independence: "When in the course of human events ..."

U.S. Democracy Heather Cox Richardson on defending the Declaration’s democratic ideals

Heather Cox Richardson, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

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Iran

MASHHAD, IRAN - JULY 09: Iranian Revolutionary Guard soldiers and clerics walk in the procession carrying the coffin of Iran's slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on July 9, 2026, in Mashhad, Iran.

International Affairs The Iran War and the War Powers Resolution

An Iranian national flag is placed by the rubble of a collapsed building following strikes at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran on April 7, 2026.

Iran Blowback: How the Iran war may change the world

Commercial vessels remain anchored off Port Sultan Qaboos around Qaboos Port on June 21, 2026 in Muscat, Oman.

Global Trade Will the Strait of Hormuz reopen after the US-Iran deal?

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Kari Heerman, Bruce Jones

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Asia & the Pacific Iran war reverberations: A nadir for Asia’s economic security

Mireya Solís

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Defense & Security

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Security Alliances & Partnerships The future of security assistance

The Brookings Institution, Washington DC

Monday, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EDT

U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth (C) hands an aide a note as he testifies during a House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on Defense hearing in the Rayburn House Office Building on May 12, 2026 in Washington, DC.

U.S. Defense Policy A better way to spend $350 billion at the Pentagon

Michael E. O’Hanlon

Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) honour guard stand with flags of the US and China in front of the Great Hall of the People ahead of a welcome ceremony for US President Donald Trump in Beijing on May 14, 2026.

Defense & Security Who holds the advantage? Three perspectives on the US-China military balance

John Culver, Bruce Jones, Michael E. O’Hanlon

In this photo, the remains of an UNHCR warehouse can be seen following a Russian ballistic missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine.

Ukraine Dispatch from Ukraine

Mara Karlin

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Artificial Intelligence

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July 16

2026

Artificial Intelligence Behind the screen: AI slop, young children, and the profit problem

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An aerial view shows construction of a massive Skybox AI data center campus in Hutto, Texas, on April 18, 2026, which will host 400 million square feet of space with 600 megawatts of capacity.

Technology Policy & Regulation Data center backlash signals a fight over AI power

Tom Wheeler

U.S. Economy Can AI restore fiscal sustainability in the US?

Ben Harris, Neil R. Mehrotra, William Overcash

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Artificial Intelligence Getting to all-of-the-above: A framework of solutions for AI’s coming impacts on work and workers

Xavier de Souza Briggs

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Education

A man leaves the federal courthouse where a group of Democratic state attorneys are asking a federal judge to block U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and halt it from laying off nearly half of its staff, in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., April 25, 2025. REUTERS/Amanda Sabga

Education Tracking lawsuits challenging the Trump administration’s K-12 education agenda

Rachel M. Perera, Thalia González, Aidan Tomlinson

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Education America’s school boards

Education Policy From access to impact

Molly Curtiss Wyss, Brad Olsen

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Education 2 members of Congress on improving American education

Rep. Kevin Kiley, Rep. Mark Takano, Rashawn Ray

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2026

Artificial Intelligence Behind the screen: AI slop, young children, and the profit problem

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2026

Security Alliances & Partnerships The future of security assistance

The Brookings Institution, Washington DC

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July 21-22

2026

U.S. Economy 15th annual Municipal Finance Conference

The Brookings Institution, Washington DC

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