#Brookings

Sarah Ryley

MissRyley

1/NEW analysis re: 25M new unemployment claims since the COVID-19 shutdowns.We requested weekly claims data from every state by gender, race, ethnicity, age, industry & occupation. 17 states gave us

ProfTalmadge

ProfTalmadge

Today’s CCP military parade included flashiest-ever public display of China’s nuclear weapons. But what does it all mean for broader U.S.-China nuclear relationship? My new @Brookings #GlobalChina paper offers some

Sewell Chan

sewellchan

THREAD: Local newspapers are dying. Often, they're the only institutions working to hold government, businesses and powerful individuals accountable. Today, @latimesopinion is urging policy makers to #SavetheNews. https://www.latimes.c

Anthea Roberts

AntheaERoberts

A new piece from me that applies ideas from complexity theory to the cascading health, economic & social effects of #COVID19. I think we need to think about economic globalisation

Fatima Iqbal-Zubair

fatima4assembly

If CA’s #COVID-19 mortality rate was equal to the rate in San Quentin Prison, then *300,000+* Californians would have died. Where did we go wrong & how do we start

Who's Gonna Be Lucky Indicted #2? - Brian Cates

drawandstrike

How funny is it that it turns out Christopher Steele's super-Russian gov't intel-connected insider was...some apparatchik working for the Brookings Institute in Washington DC? Haven't dug into the timeline of

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Quick Thread about China propaganda and soft power vs what America does. Usually when I'm asked, I don't respond, its their cynical "Always-On Anti U.S. Outrage" But, I'll throw a

Super Deluxe

sachp

Lots of important and pertinent questions being asked regarding this and citizens' data privacy. Some info:1) Privacy has not been recognized in our constitution as a fundamental right. However, case

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/- Someone from the Brookings Institute says that because of Covid-19, he now expects the Chinese economy to overtake that of the US by 2028 rather than 2030. Leaving aside

Joint Economic Committee Democrats

JECDems

.@JECDems has a new brief on why it will be essential to provide massive aid to state & local governments, which are forced to spend billions leading the fight against

theJuiceMedia

thejuicemedia

The US Postal Service has made an ad about mail-in voting, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative! Register to vote: https://www.vote.org Request mail-in ballot: https://www.vote.org Hi again America

Chris McDonough

chrismcdonough

I see a lot of very earnest confusion from people I follow along the lines of "wow I can't believe we are handling this pandemic response so poorly, what happened?"

Jason Mix🆘

realJasonMix

Thread:1/In light of John Bolton's new book about his time as the President's National Security Advisor, it is probably a good time for a refresher on this administration's "proudest" moments.#wtpEBRC#wtp2020⁦@wtp__2

allianceinitiative

AllianceInit

Since it looks like there may be another Israel-Arab peace deal this week, let's revisit some predictions asserting the impossibility of such deals due to Trump admin foreign policy on

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

Covid-19 attacks groups who are most vulnerable and in America, no one is more vulnerable than poor black people (and poor Native people.) A host of issues ensured black people

Soumaya Keynes

SoumayaKeynes

Hello! I wrote a piece for @TheEconomist about whether the IMF should issue more special drawing rights. https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2020/04/11/should-the-imf-dole-out-more-special-drawing-rights This background paper from Maury O