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
The High Cost of Cheap Chinese Imports
Is the Labor Market “Normalizing?” What Even Is “Normal?”
What If All The Conventional Models Fail To Predict What Happens Next?
Geopolitics
Is the United States Preparing for War with China?
Windows, not Walls: Conceptualizing Air Superiority for Future Wars
China’s relationship with Africa is growing murkier
A Series of Strategic Maneuvers in the South China Sea: Unfolding Tensions and Alliances
The US Presidential Election and the Future of China-US Relations
Israel-Japan Relations and the Middle East
As his popularity fades Volodymyr Zelensky culls his cabinet
Climate Change
Will Climate Change Be the Death of Wheat?
How Earth’s most intense heat wave ever impacted life in Antarctica
Climate Change Is Making Glacier Tourism More Popular, and Riskier
Science & Technology
The risks and inefficacies of AI systems in military targeting support
The battle between drones and helicopters in Ukraine
FBI: North Korean Actors Readying Aggressive Cyberattack Wave
AI and the Labor Market: Will Firms Hire, Fire, or Retrain?
Will AI make soldiers obsolete?
‘Forever chemicals’ influence the development and function of the brain
Ex-OpenAI co-founder’s new Safe Superintelligence startup raises $1B in three months
American Politics
Popular Conservatives Allegedly Tricked Into $10M Russian Influence Campaign: DOJ
Biden Sits At Tiny Fake White House Desk
Wall Street Journal Tries to Analyze Not-Great Data on US Immigration, Generating Reader Pushback
Good News!
Good News in History, September 4
Oceanographers Explore Underwater Mountain Bigger Than Mount Olympus Teeming with Wonders
Tennessee Veterans Find Healing Working with ‘Bio-feedback machine’ Horses
NHS 111 expands to provide 24-hour mental health crisis support
Quote of the Day
“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.”
– Confucius
