Since the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic through today, news about labor shortages and missing workers has dominated headlines. The question everyone still seems to be asking is: Why? In January … | Continue reading
Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it well known his antipathy towards NATO, claiming the Alliance took advantage of Russian weakness after the collapse of the Soviet Union in violation of promises allegedly made to Moscow by Western leaders. Steven Pifer argues that no su … | Continue reading
Sud and Patnaik detail the permitting process for renewable energy infrastructure and electric transmission lines. | Continue reading
Victoria Welborn and George Ingram explore digital public goods as drivers of inclusion and products through which to standardize and safeguard rights. | Continue reading
Previous analyses of Census Bureau estimates make plain that the nation’s population growth has ground down to a historic low: only 0.1% growth between July 2020 and July 2021. During this prime ye… | Continue reading
In partnership with Results for Development, Rodrigo Castillo and Caitlin Purdy explore issues related to the future of critical mineral supply chains globally. | Continue reading
Why are fossil fuels so hard to quit, even though we know that using them damages the planet? Samantha Gross explains how we became reliant on fossil fuels, why it has proven so hard to change cour… | Continue reading
Sophia Campbell and David Wessel explore the benefits and costs of broadband internet expansion in the U.S. | Continue reading
Much has been written about the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on big-city populations. Brookings Metro’s recent analysis of large metropolitan area declines makes plain that during the prime year of t… | Continue reading
Beijing has exploited search engine results to disseminate state-backed media that amplify the Chinese Communist Party’s propaganda. As we demonstrate in our recent report, users turning to search … | Continue reading
David Wessel presents the pros and cons of raising taxes on the wealthiest Americans. | Continue reading
George Akerlof and Janet Yellen look at the rise in out-of-wedlock birth rates since 1970 and the demise of the shotgun marriage. | Continue reading
As the cost of turnover continues to rise, and as today’s labor shortage becomes tomorrow’s norm, the cost-benefit analysis of union-busting should change. Having a union may actually save a company money—particularly if management and labor can work together productively, as at … | Continue reading
As the war in Ukraine unfolds, Russian propaganda about the conflict has gotten a boost from a friendly source: government officials and state media out of Beijing. | Continue reading
Automation-susceptible individuals are a unique demographic category with a sufficiently distinct set of beliefs and characteristics, and hold progressive economic values and conservative cultural values, Julian Jacobs finds. | Continue reading
A significant share of capital income is never subject to tax. William Gale, Swati Joshi, Christopher Pulliam, and John Sabelhaus explore research on the massive “leakage” between the generation and taxation of economic income. | Continue reading
The tech industry’s big, coastal “superstar” cities aren’t going anywhere. That’s the first takeaway from Brookings Metro’s new look at the geography of the tech sector as it has powered through th… | Continue reading
The pandemic years raised the promise of tech decentralization through remote work and new siting decisions. Yet, the dominance of tech's long-standing hubs ensures that the “rise of the rest” won’t happen easily, or by itself. The nation, states, and regions themselves will need … | Continue reading
Brookings President Strobe Talbott writes that Russia's success in coming years depends on whether Vladimir Putin is willing and able to bring his authoritarian walk in line with his democratic talk. | Continue reading
New data show that declines in white youth population are countered by gains in other racial groups, discusses demographer William H. Frey. | Continue reading
Net zero pledges are powerful, visible, simple… and utterly insufficient. At best, we still over-emit. At worst, these discriminate against poor, low-emitting countries, and could even push greenwashing. | Continue reading
New Census Bureau data released this month shows that despite the attention given to COVID-related migration out of cities, college towns, and other pandemic-impacted areas, overall permanent migra… | Continue reading
The United States is an inherently maritime nation. Yet, U.S. flagged vessels make up only 0.4% of the world’s vessels (yes, that’s 0.4%, not 4%). | Continue reading
Yoichi Kato argues for the needs and ways for the U.S., Japan, and Taiwan to coordinate on defense of Taiwan through a trilateral framework with the U.S. at its center. | Continue reading
At present, China, the U.S., and India are leading the way in implementing national AI plans, yet China has already hit on a balanced strategy that has thus far eluded the U.S. and India, Samar Fatima, Gregory S. Dawson, Kevin C. Desouza, James S. Denford find. | Continue reading
This research presents a new metrics framework that can help assess the positive effects of Playful Learning Landscapes on learning outcomes and enhance social interaction in public revitalized places. | Continue reading
China’s push for tech innovation is encountering an unlikely obstacle: a prevailing sense of social and professional stagnation. | Continue reading
Using census data from the United States and the United Kingdom, this survey employs basic demographic analysis to assess key similarities and differences between the two countries. | Continue reading
At the end of 2020, Americans owed $14 trillion more to the rest of the world than the rest of the world owed to America, according to the latest reading on the nation’s Net Investment Position (NIIP). How did we get here? Is this increase in net foreign liabilities a cause for c … | Continue reading
Much of the U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) discussion revolves around futuristic dreams of both utopia and dystopia. From extreme to extreme, the promises range from solutions to global climate … | Continue reading
Algorithms must be responsibly created to avoid discrimination and unethical applications. | Continue reading
In his long war against America, Osama bin Laden has won a sweeping if posthumous victory. The U.S. reaction to the 9/11 attack he masterminded is like the cytokine storm that can occur when COVID-… | Continue reading
U.S. withdrawal from and Taliban triumph in Afghanistan generate an acute security challenge for Russia, Pavel K. Baev writes in an examination of Russia and America's overlapping legacies in Central Asia. | Continue reading
Bruce Riedel recalls the events of September 11 from his perspective as then-special assistant to the president for the Near East and North Africa on the National Security Council staff. | Continue reading
Matthew Collin uses data from a leak at Cayman National Bank and Trust to start answering questions about who stores their money in tax havens and how that should alter approaches to fighting dirty money. | Continue reading
Drones have been deployed in a huge variety of ways to fight the COVID pandemic, but their impact has been decidedly mixed. | Continue reading
Dan Berger, Stephen Yale-Loehr, Doug Rand, Leon Rodriguez, Lindsay Milliken, Kelli Duehning, Megan Kludt, Jeff Goldman, and Michael Serotte recommend immigration policies to support international entrepreneurs and help the US economy recover from the pandemic. | Continue reading
Prior to the onset of the pandemic, low-wage earners comprised 43% of the workforce. More than a year into the pandemic, they comprise 52% of the displaced—nearly 10 percentage points higher than we would expect if low-wage and mid/high-wage jobs were recovering at an equal pace. | Continue reading
Facebook and Twitter are increasingly aggressive in attributing disinformation operations to specific actors, and disinformants are evolving in response, outsourcing their work and relying on AI-ge… | Continue reading
What we now know about the future of presidential politics. | Continue reading
Brookings has launched research to examine how to scale up and improve computer science education around the world. | Continue reading
The soon-to-be-released 2020 census will make even more clear where the nation’s demographic destiny resides—once again illustrating a patchwork of different races, backgrounds, and cultures that are dispersing across all parts of the country. | Continue reading
The EU’s proposed AI regulation could be the start of greater trans-Atlantic cooperation on emerging technology, write Mark MacCarthy and Kenneth Propp. | Continue reading
While aspects of the corporate relocation story may be real, new evidence raises questions about the true potential of the remote-work-driven renewal storyline. | Continue reading
On June 22, Brookings Senior Fellow Jonathan Rauch debuted his new book, “The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth" and was joined by journalist Anne Applebaum and author Neal Stephenson for a discussion. | Continue reading
William Frey provides a comprehensive assessment of how domestic migration, international migration, and natural increase (the excess of births over deaths) impacted area population change during the year that the pandemic hit. | Continue reading