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U.S. Politics

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    Realist or neocon? Mixed messages in Trump advisor’s foreign policy vision

    July 19, 2016, William McCants

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    Melania Trump fails to help close the gender gap

    July 19, 2016, Elaine Kamarck

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    Live from Cleveland: A history of messy and not-so-messy conventions

    July 18, 2016, Elaine Kamarck

Global Education

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    Pokémon Go: A window into how we might reimagine learning #BecomingBrilliant

    July 19, 2016, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

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    Educate Girls development impact bond could be win-win for investors and students

    July 18, 2016, Sophie Gardiner and Emily Gustafsson-Wright

  • Blog Post

    Accelerating progress in education with hands-on, minds-on learning

    July 14, 2016, Rebecca Winthrop, Timothy P. Williams and Eileen McGivney

The Legalization of Marijuana

  • Blog Post

    In the marijuana industry, size doesn’t always matter

    June 29, 2016, John Hudak

  • Paper

    Worry about bad marijuana—not Big Marijuana

    June 16, 2016, John Hudak and Jonathan Rauch

  • Paper

    Bootleggers, Baptists, bureaucrats, and bongs: How special interests will shape marijuana legalization

    June 16, 2016, Philip A. Wallach and Jonathan Rauch

Saudi Arabia

  • Blog Post

    Why the Iran deal’s second anniversary may be even more important than the first

    July 14, 2016, Kenneth M. Pollack

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    The Iran deal, one year out: What Brookings experts are saying

    July 14, 2016, Strobe Talbott, Robert Einhorn, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, Norman Eisen, Richard Nephew, et al.

  • Blog Post

    What the Iran deal has meant for Saudi Arabia and regional tensions

    July 13, 2016, Bruce Riedel

U.S. Poverty

  • Blog Post

    Lessons for restoring the American dream from Latin America

    July 12, 2016, Carol Graham

  • Report

    Requiring school districts to spend comparable amounts on Title I schools is pushing on a string

    July 8, 2016, Mark Dynarski and Kirsten Kainz

  • Report

    No more free lunch for education policymakers and researchers

    June 30, 2016, Matthew M. Chingos