The State of California, via their website California for All, has released the new report, “California SMARTER: The Next Phase of California’s COVID-19 Response.” “SMARTER” stands for “Shots, Masks, Awareness, Readiness, Testing, Education and Rx (prescriptions and treatments).” The goals for each of these metrics are: Shots: Capacity to administer...
The U.S. Capitol Police is responsible for protecting the members of Congress, as well as all staff, facilities, and visitors. However, on January 6, 2021, thousands of protestors surrounded the U.S. Capitol, where they attacked and injured several law enforcement officers and eventually breached the building. In light of those...
The National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland has recently released Radicalization in the Ranks: An Assessment of the Scope and Nature of Criminal Extremism in the United States Military, a report examining criminal extremism amongst active and retired U.S....
The U.S. Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flood Hazard Scenarios and Tools Interagency Task Force, composed of representatives from several government agencies and academic institutions such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers released an updated sea level rise...
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), founded in 1913, routinely tracks and researches hate in the United States and abroad, aiding law enforcement and providing testimonies to members of Congress. With the release of their new report, Murder & Extremism in the United States 2021, ADL provides an in-depth overview of murders...
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) maintains a collection of the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), which collects and analyzes data from the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on epidemiology and public health. Each issue of the MMWR is packed with raw and analyzed public health data and...
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has released Positive Peace Report 2022: Analysing the Factors that Build, Predict and Sustain Peace, a report that uses a “Positive Peace Index (PPI)” to evaluate and compare societal peace efforts in 163 countries. Utilizing this index, IEP found that over the past...
This morning my children were rolling their eyes at me when I asked them for the umpteenth time to not throw their baggies in the trash after lunch. My oldest declared, “Mom, washing and re-using one baggy is not going to change the world.” My 11 year-old added, “The sun...
The Center for Global Development (CGD) published a working paper that reviews the obstacles to developing vaccines and delivering vaccinations, including against COVID-19, in a historical perspective. In COVID-19 Vaccine Development and Rollout in Historical Perspective, authors Amanda Glassman, Charles Kenny, and George Yang review a subset of the steps...
The U.S. Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking, which was established by the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act, has released its final report. Comprised of senators and representatives from both parties, senior members of the executive branch, and nationally recognized subject-matter experts, the Commission outlines a strategic approach to fighting...
