Policy Currents

265 Episodes

1. Tackling Truth Decay, how tech experts view the military's use of artificial intelligence, regulating outer space.

   Published: 5/13/2022
2. How better data can help refugees, homelessness in L.A., burnout among health care providers.

   Published: 5/6/2022
3. Considering a peacekeeping operation in northern Ukraine, supporting veterans with traumatic brain injury, a new response to synthetic opioids.

   Published: 4/29/2022
4. Russian mercenaries, how to respond to potential Russian cyberattacks, Moscow’s failure to reform its economy.

   Published: 4/22/2022
5. How insurgency could give Ukraine an edge, curbing U.S. hospital prices, policies to support single mothers.

   Published: 4/8/2022
6. Helping Ukrainian refugees, the data on environmental racism, tracking wastewater to stay ahead of COVID-19.

   Published: 4/1/2022
7. Our latest on Putin’s war in Ukraine, including insights on Russia’s early stumbles, the refugee crisis, and the possibility of regime change in Moscow.

   Published: 3/25/2022
8. Keeping Russians informed about the war, considering a no-fly zone over Ukraine, and treating pain conditions among U.S. service members.

   Published: 3/18/2022
9. Putin’s (ir)rationality, understanding America’s gun policy debate, and teacher diversity.

   Published: 3/11/2022
10. How to ensure Russia’s war on Ukraine doesn’t turn into a war with NATO, insights from RAND on the State of the Union, and the future of space.

    Published: 3/4/2022
11. Russia attacks Ukraine, the link between substance use and sex trafficking, anti-bias education in U.S. schools, and more.

    Published: 2/25/2022
12. The humanitarian fallout from a Russian invasion of Ukraine, investing in women’s health research, supporting incarcerated parents, and more.

    Published: 2/18/2022
13. What school district leaders are worried about, how to break the cycle of conflict with Russia, a new report on synthetic opioid trafficking, and more.

    Published: 2/11/2022
14. NATO’s open-door policy, U.S. health care payments, supporting climate migrants.

    Published: 2/4/2022
15. Reforming the Pentagon’s policies on civilian casualties, school principals’ well-being, alcohol use in the COVID-19 era.

    Published: 1/28/2022
16. Deterring Russia (now and later), the value of citizen science, strengthening the America’s blood supply, and the latest from RAND Art + Data.

    Published: 1/21/2022
17. Technologies that manipulate the climate, the Ukraine-Russia crisis, savings from biosimilars.

    Published: 1/14/2022
18. The parallels between extremism and addiction, measuring recidivism risk, global vaccine diplomacy.

    Published: 1/7/2022
19. The pay gap between female and male doctors, understanding America’s weird job market, social and emotional learning.

    Published: 12/17/2021
20. A potential Russian invasion in Ukraine, Taiwan’s new defense strategy, climate migration, and how Americans feel about ‘vaccine globalism.’

    Published: 12/10/2021