Your daily policy brief to explore emerging topics and discover top-notch policy material about fields that impact and inform our preparedness like Economics, Geopolitics, Climate Change, Science & Technology and more, hand-selected daily for you.
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Daily Policy Topics
Economics
European firms are smaller and less profitable than American ones
Intel is on life support. Can anything save it?
WTF Chart Of The Day: Initial Jobless Claims Continue To Confuse
Producer Prices Rose More Than Expected In August
ECB Cuts Rates By 25bps (As Expected); Projects Worsening Stagflation
An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea
Geopolitics
Russia Says It Could ‘Combine’ With China If Both Face Threat From the US
Rewind and Reconnoiter: Does America Need an Africa Strategy? with Sam Wilkins
Squeaky-clean Europe is more corrupt than you think
Is Gaza war feeding ISIS resurgeance in Middle East?
207 Chinese Ships Spotted In West Philippine Sea In New Record-High
Germany Suspends Schengen, Immigration Repercussion Across The Entire EU
Will the Far-Right Take Over Germany (Again)?
Climate Change
China is beating America in the nuclear-energy race
Science & Technology
The Rise of the Science Sleuths
Save the Date: The Dawn Of A New Space Age
OpenAI unveils o1, a model that can fact-check itself
Bitcoin and NFTs may get greater legal protections as ‘personal property’ under proposed UK law
American Politics
Debate Debacle: Our Bleak Foreign Policy Future
Kamaflage: The Harris Policy Dump
Will Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Kamala Harris matter?
Texas City Shuts Down Hotel Occupied By Venezuelan Gang After 693 Police Calls
Good News!
Good News in History September 12
When It Comes to Banning Smartphones From Schools, What Really Works?
Students win Dyson award for wildfire-detecting ‘pinecone’ device
Remembering James Earl Jones – The Voice of Millennials’ Childhood and Titan of the Theater
Quote of the Day
“Pure democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property; and have, in general, been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.”
– James Madison
