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Saturday, 19 September 2026
George Washington’s Farewell Address
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
The Geopolitical Transformation of BRICS
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
From Tokens to Weights: The Changing Value of AI
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Attribution as the Next Step in Indian Ocean Maritime Security
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Fraying Firewall: What the AfD’s Saxony-Anhalt Win Means for Germany and Europe
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
From Hatchery to Hinterland: Securing Asia’s Blue-Food Corridors
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Friday, 18 September 2026
State Anti-ESG Laws and Local Finance: Evidence from the Municipal Bond Market
Heritage Foundation
Testimony From Peter Harrell on Tools to Counter the CCP's Industrial Policy and Supply Chain Threats
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Amid Iran War Tensions, Energy Market Resilience Wears Thin
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Too little, too late: The inadequacy of reactive antitrust enforcement in technology markets
Brookings
Nature, People, and Sustainable Development
Brookings
What happens when academic achievement is used to determine English proficiency?
Brookings
How universities are affected by AI moving knowledge outside their walls
Brookings
A simple question, a harder answer: Career guidance and rural youth in Kenya
Brookings
Whose voices are missing: Reframing Mozambique’s ‘learning crisis’
Brookings
Listening to adolescents: Building gender-responsive mental health systems in India
Brookings
It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Parallels of AI and Globalization
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
The U.S. Is Highly Vulnerable to Cyber Threats From China. Here’s What It Should Do
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Public Comment re: Federal Trade Commission Request for Public Comment on Its Proposed Enforcement Policy Statement Regarding Personalized Pricing
Cato Institute
Anibowei v. Blanche
Cato Institute
Responding to the Risks of Open-Weight AI Models
RUSI
100 Percent schools: How to Ensure Basic Competencies for All Children
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Can the U.S.-India Defense Partnership Keep Pace With AI?
Heritage Foundation
California Risks Killing the Golden Goose With Proposition 40
Heritage Foundation
On the Constitution’s Birthday, Honor Her Virtues
Heritage Foundation
Climate and Policy Resilience in Brazilian Renewable Energy
PCNS
(Policy Center for the New South)
Between Survival and Strategy: Reading Bhutan’s Recent Buddhist Outreach
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
How the US-Saudi Nuclear Deal Could Ignite a Middle East Arms Race
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Amid Iran War Tensions, Energy Market Resilience Wears Thin
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Paraguay’s Next Development Chapter
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The U.S.-China Summit: Too Big and Too Small to Fail
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Paraguay’s Next Development Chapter
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Opinion: A Routine Visit, a Revealing Reaction
AIR Center
25 Years after Amerithrax: The Changing Landscape of Biosecurity
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Is BRICS Becoming a Nuclear Minilateral?
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
A Design Lab Pilot to Inform Strategies for Expanding Access to Medications for Opioid Use Disorder in Community Mental Health Centers
RAND Corporation
Membership Without Membership: What Can Europe Really Offer Canada?
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Pakistan’s Military Modernisation and Its Implications for India
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Japan’s Defence Reorientation Hinges on Personnel Reform
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Tolerating Inefficiency: Building Strategic Redundancy in Indian Pharma
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
From Black Mass to Batteries: Building a Circular Battery Value Chain
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Thursday, 17 September 2026
In re Section 301 Forced Labor Cases
Cato Institute
What Would a Social Security Payroll Tax Hike Cost Workers? | New Cato Analysis
Cato Institute
Alex Nowrasteh’s blog post, “Immigrants Still Use Much Less Welfare Than Native-Born Americans,” is cited on NPR’s 1A
Cato Institute
Alex Nowrasteh’s blog post, “Immigration and Naturalization in the Western Tradition,” is cited on WGBH’s Morning Edition
Cato Institute
Scott Lincicome discusses the Federal Reserve’s interest rate increase and President Trump’s meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, with a focus on artificial intelligence, on FNC’s Fox & Friends First
Cato Institute
Stephen Richer discusses the SCOTUS ruling on mail-in voting on WLS’ The Ray Stevens Show
Cato Institute
Michael F. Cannon discusses Congress’s efforts to change the Medicare Advantage payment methodology to conceal the program’s true costs on The Bob Harden Show podcast
Cato Institute
Scott Lincicome discusses the Federal Reserve’s rate hike, Canada’s response to an EU proposal, the escalating oil crisis, and President Trump’s increased tariff power on MS NOW’s Money, Power, Politics with Stephanie Ruhle
Cato Institute
Recruitment of Children and Adolescents by Organized Crime
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Is the U.S. Banking System Ready for a Post-Quantum Future?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Give the Federal Childcare Subsidy to Parents, Not Daycare
Heritage Foundation
Instant payments outpace Central Africa’s anti-money laundering controls
ISS Africa
(Institute for Security Studies)
Arms and Alliances: Israel’s Evolving Defence Ties With Europe
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
How Trump’s Winning Coalition Sees Foreign Policy as the Midterms Approach
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Will the new public charge rule lower enrollment in safety net programs?
Brookings
How the U.S. Can Alter Putin’s Calculus on Ukraine
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Preserving Jobs and Tax Revenue in the Age of AI: Q&A with Carter Price
RAND Corporation
25th Annual Constitution Day
Cato Institute
The Rogue Prosecutor Movement Is Un-American
Heritage Foundation
Moscow’s Other Front: Why Ukraine’s Churches Are a Security Issue
RUSI
Preventable: The Sheridan Gorman Story
Heritage Foundation
Preventable: A Powerful Testimony
Heritage Foundation
2026 Carnegie California AI Survey
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Competing cross-border payment networks: Another arena for geopolitical competition
PCNS
(Policy Center for the New South)
Bitter-Sweet Sector: Understanding India’s Sugar (Price) Rush
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Re-engineering India’s Early Nutrition Architecture
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Beyond the Memory Cycle: AI, HBM, and the New Semiconductor Shortage
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Canada’s “Associate EU Membership”: What’s in a Name?
DGAP
(German Council on Foreign Relations)
CSIS Press Briefing: Previewing the Trump-Xi Summit
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Don’t Slow Down AI Development—Speed Up Benchmarking
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Six Charts to Explain the Global Energy Crisis
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Building and Using a U.S. Polar Defense Industrial Base
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Extended Range: China Upgrades Its Military Base in Djibouti
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The AI Industry Is Coalescing on “Pacing the Frontier.” Will It Actually Change Anything?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Is the U.S. Banking System Ready for a Post-Quantum Future?
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
“The TANAP of Electricity”: Azerbaijan and Türkiye Add Renewable Power to the Middle Corridor
AIR Center
India–Bangladesh Land Trade: Non-Tariff Barriers
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Taking the Pulse: Does the EU Have a Germany Problem?
Ifri
(Institut français des relations internationales)
SADC’s Financing Gap Threatens Integration Agenda
SAIIA
(South African Institute of International Affairs)
AGOA was extended for two years—now the real work begins
Brookings
Nuclear credibility in theory and in practice
Brookings
More flexibility needs greater accountability: defence in the 2028-2034 EU budget
Bruegel
Anuario Internacional CIDOB 2027. El asedio a la democracia
CIDOB
(Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
Bikoshito Bongo: An Evidence-Based Policy Roadmap for West Bengal’s 5X Economy
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Japan’s Defence Transformation: Reading the 2026 White Paper
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
India’s Footpath Challenge: From Judicial Mandate to Implementation
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Navigating curriculum and culture wars: What happened to public school?
Brookings
Beyond “Peak China”: Understanding China’s Structural Slowdown
KIEP
(Korea Institute for International Economic Policy)
Veterans’ Earnings in the Civilian Labor Market
RAND Corporation
Making costs count: A new framework for better cost evidence generation and use in global education and ECCE
Brookings
Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Cousin Marriage: The Strange Politics of Inward-Branching Family Trees
Heritage Foundation
Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority v. National Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association
Cato Institute
Cato Trade Experts on Russia Bill’s Tariff Powers
Cato Institute
Robert A. Levy discusses the SCOTUS case Monsanto Co. v. Durnell on The Bob Harden Show
Cato Institute
Jennifer Huddleston is featured in the debate, “How do we regulate AI before it kills us all?,” on Can We Agree with Michael Smerconish
Cato Institute
Michael Smerconish airs a portion of his Can We Agree?, debate between Jennifer Huddleston and former “Cyber Czar” Richard Clarke on SiriusXM POTUS’ The Michael Smerconish Program
Cato Institute
Stuart Anderson discusses what the Trump administration’s changes to the citizenship process look like in practice and what’s the impact is on those seeking naturalization today on NPR’s 1A
Cato Institute
Adam N. Michel’s comments from the New York Post article, “Democratic socialism could cost the US a staggering $200 trillion, report reveals: ‘Closer to Soviet-style communism,” are cited on WABC’s The Kudlow Riff
Cato Institute
Cato Institute’s amicus brief in Jouppi v. Alaska was cited on WPHT’s The Rich Zeoli Show
Cato Institute
Laura Bondank-Harmon discusses public outrage over secret surveillance on a Breaking Battlegrounds YouTube Short
Cato Institute
Lonnie Bunch’s Smithsonian Exit Is a Culture-War Win
Heritage Foundation
AI Security Threats Aren’t a Hoax—But They Also Aren’t as Existential as They Might Seem
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Associate membership – appreciated in Canada; a non-starter in Ukraine
DGAP
(German Council on Foreign Relations)
Benoir v. Town of Parksley
Cato Institute
Does America Still Need a Surgeon General? | Cato’s Jeffrey A. Singer
Cato Institute
Fed Hikes Rates: “Fix Policy, Don’t Blame the Fed” | Cato’s Jai Kedia
Cato Institute
Uganda’s military takes centre stage in Museveni succession
ISS Africa
(Institute for Security Studies)
Elbows Up: How Canada Is Fighting Trump’s Tariffs
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Electability over ideology: Takeaways from the 2026 primaries
Brookings
When girls lead: Strengthening leadership pathways for rural and peri-urban girls in Zambia
Brookings
Making costs count: Harmonized standards for generation and use of cost evidence in global education and ECCE
Brookings
Why AI safety requires more than industry self-regulation
Brookings
The U.S.-Canada Trade War Could Mark a Breaking Point
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Do Stigma and Efficacy Mediate the Association Between Training and Suicide Prevention Behavior Among Army Noncommissioned Officers?
RAND Corporation
Near and Far: The NIHR’s Regional and National Economic Impacts
RAND Corporation
Army Chaplains’ Perceptions About Identifying, Intervening, and Referring Soldiers at Risk of Suicide
RAND Corporation
The President’s Echo System: How Foreign Policy Is Sold to Americans
Cato Institute
Evolving Health and Wellbeing of Thalidomide Survivors as They Age: A Scoping Review Update (2017-2025)
RAND Corporation
Describing Neighborhood-Level Disparities in Pediatric Firearm Injuries
RAND Corporation
Legal and Clinical Liability of Comanaging Pediatric Mental Health With Unregulated AI Chatbots: Reply
RAND Corporation
China’s Construction of Police Training Facilities in Global South Likely to Expand Global Security Leadership
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
A Russian Oligarch Speaks Out, But Not Against Russia's War
RUSI
Illicit Finance in a Fragmenting World: Can the Global System Keep Pace?
RUSI
The Long Arm of China and North Korea’s Repression
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Building a BRICS Framework for Climate Adaptation
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Can a Digital Economy Agreement Refresh India-Sri Lanka Economic Integration?
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Consensus amid Contestation: Reading BRICS's New Delhi Declaration
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
The Wealth Beneath the Growth Rate
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
AI Security Threats Aren’t a Hoax—But They Also Aren’t as Existential as They Might Seem
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The Long Arm of China and North Korea’s Repression
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Vaccine Hunting: Balancing Strategic Independence, Cooperation and Multilateral Obligations in Scandinavian COVID‐19 Vaccine Diplomacy
DIIS
(Danish Institute for International Studies)
Armenia: Digital Transformation and Governance Gaps
DGAP
(German Council on Foreign Relations)
States Weekly: September 16, 2026
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
What a Driver’s License Breach Shows About Foreign Data-AI Threats
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
The Future of the Space Data Network: How the Pentagon Can Ensure a Competitive Marketplace
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Nuclear Statecraft: The Saudi Deal and U.S.-China Competition
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
Changing Fault Lines in Israel–Syria Dynamics
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Xi’s Visit to the US: Managing Constructive Strategic Stability
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Preventing the Creation of Mirror Life: A Strategy for the United States
RAND Corporation
Mid-Atlantic Regional Climate Impacts Summary and Outlook: Summer 2026
RAND Corporation
Positioning Qatar in the Global Research, Development, and Innovation Landscape: Comparative Insights from Small Advanced Economies
RAND Corporation
Research, development, and innovation talent in Qatar: The policy and program Landscape
RAND Corporation
The Insurability of Artificial Intelligence
RAND Corporation
Data Center Siting Model and Suitability Mapper for Community Planners: Overview and Technical Documentation
RAND Corporation
Optimizing Data Center Siting: Considering Local Infrastructure, Environmental, and Community Constraints
RAND Corporation
Can Online Activity Be Regulated? Evidence from Adult Websites
Cato Institute
Why Energy Could Be the Real Prize of the EU-India FTA
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Beyond Age-Gating: Regulating Platform Design for Child Safety
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
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112.7
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102.7
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95.4
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