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What could the Israel-Gaza deal mean for the Middle East?

Hady Amr, Scott R. Anderson, Aslı Aydıntaşbaş, Kemal Kirişci, Suzanne Maloney, Itamar Rabinovich, Dafna H. Rand, Shibley Telhami

October 13, 2025

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Rethinking responsibility in global food systems as hunger and obesity rise

Farah Khan

October 15, 2025

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Ukraine’s energy sector is a key battleground in the war with Russia

Maciej Zaniewicz, Danylo Moiseienko

October 7, 2025

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SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly impair recession response

Lauren Bauer, Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach

October 8, 2025

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Government Shutdown

U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (3)

U.S. Economy What is a government shutdown?

David Wessel

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U.S. Government & Politics Is this government shutdown different?

Elaine Kamarck, Molly E. Reynolds, Fred Dews

Health Insurance How would eliminating $0 Marketplace premiums affect insurance coverage?

Matthew Fiedler

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Mike Johnson gives remarks during the Opening of the 119th Congress in the House Chambers of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 3, 2025. Republicans re-elected Mike Johnson to Speaker of the House after conservative holdouts changed their votes to Johnson.

Congress Surprisingly, Democrats—not Republicans—will be calling for a shutdown this year

Wendell Primus, Molly E. Reynolds

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Trade/Tariffs

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Housing Recent tariffs threaten residential construction

Elena Patel, Robert McClelland, John Wong

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U.S. Trade Policy Tracking Trump’s tariffs and other trade actions

Joshua P. Meltzer, Dozie Ezi-Ashi

U.S. Economy How do tariffs hurt the dollar?

Janice C. Eberly, Tarek A. Hassan, Kari Heerman, Jón Steinsson

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U.S. Trade Policy Is China circumventing US tariffs via Mexico and Canada?

Joshua P. Meltzer, Maricarmen Barron Esper

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Federal Impacts on the DMV Economy

Cities & Communities DMV Monitor

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U.S. Economy Early warning signs for the DC region’s economy amid federal downsizing

Amy Liu, Tracy Hadden Loh, Glencora Haskins

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U.S. Economy Is DC’s economy stalling? Insights from the DMV Monitor

Glencora Haskins, Tracy Hadden Loh, Fred Dews

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U.S. Economy Exploring unemployment trends by race in the DC region

Glencora Haskins, Tracy Hadden Loh

Artificial Intelligence

Seventeen multicoloured post-it notes are roughly positioned in a strip shape on a white board. Each one of them has a hand drawn sketch in pen on them, answering the prompt on one of the post-it notes "AI is...." The sketches are all very different, some are patterns representing data, some are cartoons, some show drawings of things like data centres, or stick figure drawings of the people involved.

Artificial Intelligence The myth of the monolith: AI is not one thing

Cameron F. Kerry, Saurabh Mishra

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October 21

2025

Artificial Intelligence The American AI stack and the world

The Brookings Institution, Washington DC

Tuesday, 9:00 am - 4:15 pm EDT

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Banking & Finance Will AI democratize financial services? | The TechTank Podcast

Nicol Turner Lee, Aaron Klein

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Technology & Information To prepare young people for the AI workplace, focus on the fundamentals

Annelies Goger, Samia Amin, Christina Yancey

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Upcoming Events

Upcoming Event

October 20

2025

Geopolitics Are geopolitics leading to fragmentation of the international financial system?

The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.

Monday, 10:00 am - 11:30 am EDT

Upcoming Event

October 20

2025

Federal Fiscal & Tax Policy New perspectives on the fiscal outlook

The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.

Monday, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm EDT

Upcoming Event

October 21

2025

Artificial Intelligence The American AI stack and the world

The Brookings Institution, Washington DC

Tuesday, 9:00 am - 4:15 pm EDT