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Tuesday, 15 September 2026
How strong is the Chinese Communist Party’s hold on power?
Brookings
Can communities mitigate their rising concerns about data centers?
Brookings
Monday, 14 September 2026
Updating the IRS Spotlight: Tracking a weakened agency
Brookings
The right dome for America
Brookings
Children in foster care need more than just a child care slot
Brookings
Five building blocks for creating a bipartisan post–Trump US health care system
Brookings
The AI revolution threatens a 'token divide'
Brookings
The Birth of the Star-Spangled Banner
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
On the Ground in Haiti: The Growing War Zone Facing U.S. Deportees
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Is the U.S. Army Backing Off on Drones?
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Alaska’s Bid to Seize a $95,000 Plane Over a $1,500 Fine Is Excessive and Unconstitutional
Cato Institute
Cato’s Huddleston: We Can’t Just Focus on Fears of AI “Doom”
Cato Institute
Stephen Richer discusses election security and election resilience on The Center for Election Innovation & Research (CEIR)’s The Unstoppable Vote documentary podcast
Cato Institute
David J. Bier’s blog post, “Trump Has Cut Legal Immigration More Than Illegal Immigration,” is cited on Noticiero N+ Univision: Fin de semana (Weekend)
Cato Institute
From Red Tape to Real Choice: Reforming Childcare Policy
Cato Institute
Sharia, the Modern State, and Freedom: A Reformist Perspective
Cato Institute
Funding for Suicide Prevention and Crisis Services in US State Budgets
RAND Corporation
Exercise or Extra Fries? Behavioral Drivers of Obesity Over the Life Cycle
RAND Corporation
Getting to Best Practice: A Practice-Oriented Checklist for Monitoring Clinic-Level Fidelity to Hypertension Interventions in a Large Safety-Net Healthcare System
RAND Corporation
Improving Public Health Laboratory Preparedness at European Union Level: Learning Points from Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic
RAND Corporation
Misinformation and Conspiracies in COVID Times
RAND Corporation
Artificial Intelligence and the Ethics and Practice of Evaluation
RAND Corporation
Role Status Changes During Emerging Adulthood and Their Association with Substance Use, Mental Health, and Well-Being Outcomes Over a 4-Year Period
RAND Corporation
Contraceptive Knowledge and Related Factors Among Male and Female U.S. Veterans of Reproductive Age
RAND Corporation
Sexual Harassment and Abuse in Young Adulthood and Mental Health Outcomes
RAND Corporation
New defence-industrial strategies target capacity and resilience, but put cooperation at risk
IISS
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
South Korea should help defend Ukraine’s skies
IISS
(International Institute for Strategic Studies)
‘No Good Answer’: Who Would Defend a United Ireland?
RUSI
How Europe’s 2027 Elections Could Test EU Governance
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Iran War’s Climate, Environmental, and Human Security Fallout
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
America’s Chronic Disease Crisis: How to Understand and Reverse It
Heritage Foundation
Make Classical Education Roman Again
Heritage Foundation
Brick by BRICS: Extracting Consensus from Conflict
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Germany’s Defence Modernisation: The Difficulties Behind the Zeitenwende
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Iran and the Emerging Security Order in the Middle East
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
China’s Open-Weight Challenge to U.S. AI Leadership
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
AUKUS Turns Five: Real Progress, Hard Challenges Ahead
CSIS
(Center for Strategic and International Studies)
BRICS and Space: Engaging Divergent Powers
IDSA
(Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses)
Progress and stagnation: US poverty, deep poverty, and the safety net, 1967–2023
Brookings
Open-Weight AI Models May Increase Biological Misuse Risks: Assessing Anti-Refusal Tampering, Capability Enhancement, and Publicly Available Uncensored Models
RAND Corporation
An Analysis of Zearn Math Implementation Costs
RAND Corporation
The Trump Coalition
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Nvidia’s Hugging Face Deal Highlights the Dangers of Open-Weight Models
CFR
(Council on Foreign Relations)
Stopping Russia’s Shadow Fleet
Konrad Adenauer Foundation
Ceuta: what’s different this time
CIDOB
(Barcelona Centre for International Affairs)
Reclaiming Sovereignty: A Series on Energy, Power, and the Indo-Pacific: The Indo-Pacific Under Siege
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Xi Jinping’s India Visit: A Thaw, Not a Reset
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
India is fighting CBAM. It should also help shape the rules
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Discerning Dissent from Misinformation: Trust in Biosecurity Governance
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Sunday, 13 September 2026
Stephen Richer discusses mail-in voting on KTVK’s Arizona’s Family News at 8pm
Cato Institute
Romina Boccia discusses raising the Social Security retirement age on Newsmax’s Wake Up America Weekend
Cato Institute
The Cato Podcast featured Benito Arruñada, Professor at Pompeu Fabra University, discussing his book, La Culpa es Nuestra (The Fault is Ours), on Radio Centro 101
Cato Institute
David J. Bier’s blog post, “Biden Didn’t Cause the Border Crisis, Part 1: Summary,” is cited on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal
Cato Institute
Laura Bondank-Harmon discusses how automated surveillance threatens a free society on the Breaking Battlegrounds podcast
Cato Institute
Tad DeHaven’s blog post, “Trump’s Presidential Portfolio Goes Quantum,” is cited on the Quickly Quantum with Brian Lampert podcast
Cato Institute
India–Africa Cooperation: A Potential Driver for a Development-Oriented Energy Transition
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Lessons of Asymmetry from Ukraine and Iran in Conflict
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Saturday, 12 September 2026
Emily Ekins’ survey report, “New Poll: Most Americans Expect Social Security Benefit Cuts; a Third Believe the Program Won’t Exist When They Retire,” is cited on WIBC’s Fire Your Financial Advisor Retirement Show
Cato Institute
From G7 to D10: Why the World's Democracies Should Finally Name Their Coalition
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
Why BRICS Cooperation on Climate Adaptation Must Go Subnational
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
9/11 at 25: The World It Remade
ORF
(Observer Research Foundation)
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