The fact of Israel's profound isolation is showing up in polls, social media, and widening boycotts. Parliamentary elections expected in the fall offer the clearest opportunity for change.
Four years ago, outreach workers in Hollywood knew where to find their unsheltered clients. Most lived in clusters of tents that workers could visit weekly, delivering services and building trust to help ultimately move people inside. But now, more people are living in vehicles and sleeping rough.
Now, when OpenAI's system predicts that an account belongs to someone under 18, teen protections are automatically applied without waiting for a parent to activate them. But even ambitious efforts can fall short, and the public needs a way to discover when they do.
The United States is embarking on a vast build-out of its electric system. Transparent cost data would help regulators pinpoint avoidable delays, help developers assess risk, and help communities judge the value they are being asked to host.
AI will become an indispensable tool for case officers, agents, fabricators, counterintelligence services, and the rest of the intelligence world. But this will have the paradoxical effect of increasing the importance of old-fashioned human intelligence.
The U.S. biosecurity system is poorly prepared for new threats. Naturally occurring crop diseases not yet present could cause billions of dollars in losses if introduced here. Engineered pathogens delivered deliberately could be far worse.
Saskia Popescu is an epidemiologist by training and a policy researcher at RAND. In this Q&A, she discusses what the United States can do to prepare for future outbreaks like Cyclospora and other biological threats.
RAND has spent more than a decade surveying educators across the United States and has expanded this effort to include the perspectives of students and parents. Among the hundreds of survey questions we fielded this past year, the results depicted in these five charts stood out the most.
Nancy Staudt is leading the RAND School of Public Policy at a moment when higher education is being pushed to evolve in a world defined by constant change.
Australia's answer to regional AI collaboration lies in federated learning, an AI model that allows cross-border collaboration on transnational security issues whilst preserving data sovereignty.
Over the last two years, Ukraine has developed an effective, if not necessarily novel, strategy of attrition: kill more Russian soldiers, faster. Ukraine's leaders use business principles to maximize both Russian casualties and economic costs.
Sella Nevo focuses on developing policies to promote the safe and effective use of AI and biotechnology. His mandate at RAND: to help ensure the most pivotal technologies of our time benefit humanity rather than endanger it.
As heatwaves grow more frequent, intense, and prolonged, they are placing increasing strain on health services across Europe. Is this becoming Europe’s new normal?
Only diplomacy will end this war. But the U.S.-led process has been episodic and inconsistent. As top Trump officials remain preoccupied with Iran, European governments have an opportunity to take the initiative.
It's often short-run financial constraints—not enough money to cover rent or food while also paying for school—that keep young adults out of the classroom. Public benefits relieve enough pressure to make enrollment possible. Once enrolled, benefits also help students stay.
By removing the easiest-to-count subpopulation—tent dwellers—while missing the rise in hidden rough sleepers and vehicles, the LAHSA count metrics have obscured the true scale of the crisis.
Epidemic and pandemic threats are a matter of national, regional, and international security. The evolving risks demand strengthened collaboration across the health and defence communities to bring their unique expertise and resources to bear, to prepare faster and more effectively.
A Europe capable of deterring, denying, and defeating existential threats is within reach. However, achieving such resilience will require difficult conversations on security and preparedness across European NATO, as a whole.
Matan Chorev is vice president and director of RAND Global and Emerging Risks. In this Q&A, he discusses some of the most consequential challenges facing the United States and the world.
Global capacity to sequence a new pathogen or deliver a vaccine is greater than ever. But mounting a coordinated response to future biosecurity threats will require a framework designed with geopolitics in mind.
What happens if we off-load our ability to make decisions, to shape the future, to machines? In this Q&A, policy researcher Benjamin Boudreaux discusses how AI could erode human agency over time—and what humans can do to stay in control.
The high cost of U.S. health care has become a very big problem. In this Q&A, RAND's Christine Eibner explains how many Americans have health insurance, ways to cut costs, and the trade-offs involved.