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States at the wheel: A state policy scorecard on electric vehicle readiness

Shriya Methkupally, Mark Muro

June 17, 2026

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.

Blowback: How the Iran war may change the world

June 24, 2026

TERRE HAUTE, INDIANA - AUGUST 02: Patients wait for care at a Remote Area Medical (RAM) mobile dental and medical clinic at Terre Haute South High School on August 02, 2025 in Terre Haute, Indiana. More than a thousand people are expected to seek free dental, medical, and vision care at the two-day event in Terre Haute, which has a poverty rate of over 25 percent. Non-profit organization RAM provides free medical care through mobile clinics in underserved, isolated, or impoverished communities around the country and world. As healthcare continues to be a contentious issue in the U.S., an estimated 27 million people — or 8.3 percent of the population — are uninsured, according to a report from the Census Bureau, with the rate considerably higher in rural and poorer parts of the country.

Reducing poverty among older adults

Wendell Primus, Ben Graham, Jack A. Smalligan, Chloe Zilkha

June 17, 2026

The spiking threat: Mexican cartels in Europe, Canada, Africa, the Asia-Pacific, and Latin America

Vanda Felbab-Brown

June 24, 2026

America’s Rural Future: Eastern Kentucky site visits highlight locally led recovery, Main Street reinvestment, and civic institutions anchoring a region in transition

Adam Aley, Junjie Ren

June 22, 2026

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America at 250

U.S. Democracy Is the Declaration of Independence still relevant 250 years later?

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

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U.S. Democracy Why the founders cared about trade and taxes

Kari Heerman, Vanessa Williamson, Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

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June 30

2026

U.S. Democracy What does the Declaration of Independence mean today?

The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.

Tuesday, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm EDT

LOS ANGELES, CA - AUGUST 19: Thasuni Bandara, 8, from Sri Lanka, takes part in U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services commissioned art project for children across the United States before taking the Oath of Allegiance during a citizenship ceremony on August 19, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. During the ceremony 143 people, including 30 area children under the age of 14, received certificates of citizenship. Children were asked to create images depicting their interpretation of the theme, "We Are America." (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

U.S. Democracy Restoring the voices that transformed American history and democracy

Keon L. Gilbert, Keesha Middlemass, Nicol Turner Lee, Gabriel R. Sanchez, Rashawn Ray

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Iran

Protesters and local Palestinian landowners, who say some of their land was taken for the newly built Mount Tarousa settlement (background), run from tear gas fired by Israeli security forces blocking a road leading to the hilltop during a rally against the settlement near Dura in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on June 19, 2026.

Crisis & Conflict Management The cycle of violence: From Israel-Palestine to Iran and back

Hady Amr

A driver refuels a vehicle at a gas station at night on May 10, 2026, in Tokyo, Japan.

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

Mireya Solís

Jeepney drivers wait for passengers at a jeepney yard on April 19, 2026 in Muntinlupa, Metro Manila, Philippines.

Southeast Asia The fallout in Southeast Asia

Lynn Kuok

This photograph taken during a media tour organised by the Hezbollah shows a man installing a flag of Hezbollah on the balcony of a damaged building at Nabi Sheet town after an Israeli military operation in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, on March 7, 2026.

Lebanon Lebanon between war and statehood: Shrinking the space for Hezbollah

Jeffrey Feltman

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Defense & Security

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

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

In this handout released by the U.S. Navy, a sailor conducts preflight checks on an F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft, attached to Strike Fighter Squadron 87, aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), while operating in support of Operation Epic Fury on March 2, 2026 in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

Defense & Security The new disorder at sea and the limits of American sea power

Peter J. Dombrowski, Bruce Jones

Protesters call for the impeachment of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol in front of National Assembly on Dec. 14, 2024 in Seoul, South Korea.

Democracy, Conflict, & Governance From martial law to democratic renewal in South Korea

Andrew Yeo, Hanna Foreman

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Artificial Intelligence

A man takes photos of a DeepSeek display at a shopping mall in Hangzhou, in China's eastern Zhejiang province

China Are the US and China really in an AI “race”?

Kyle Chan, R. David Edelman, Ryan Hass

Artificial Intelligence AI in education emergencies should start with supporting teachers

Sweta Shah

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June 29

2026

Education Technology AI and the future of teaching and learning

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Artificial Intelligence The political geography of AI exposure

Mark Muro, Todd Jones, Shriya Methkupally

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Education

Education America’s school boards

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Education From aspiration to architecture: Building education systems for human flourishing

Ghulam Omar Qargha, Michael Hansen, Tracey Burns, Anthony Mackay

Global Education Will AI in education succeed?

Brad Olsen, Jobin Thomas

Education 2 members of Congress on improving American education

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

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2026

Education Technology AI and the future of teaching and learning

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June 30

2026

U.S. Democracy What does the Declaration of Independence mean today?

The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.

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July 02

2026

Global Education Transforming education systems in a time of disruption and shifting power: Collaborative research and action from African perspectives

The Boma, Nairobi, Kenya

Thursday, 8:30 am - 4:45 pm EAT

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