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	Analysis + Opinion July 26, 2021 Public-private partnerships key to providing high-quality broadband to all Steven KoltaiThe Hill "Billions for broadband" are about to pour out of Washington. That sounds good, but it is not aligned with the reality faced by many individual states, counties and towns. In rural – as well as some poor urban – areas, the "business model" for private ISPs “prevents” them from offering service.
	Analysis + Opinion July 24, 2021 Want to fix the Border Patrol? Don't carbon-copy the playbook to reform police Josh Kussman and Chappell LawsonAZ Central The Border Patrol needs reform, but it can't be a rigid, top-down approach. Here are 4 ways to make changes happen - and make them last according to Chappell Lawson.
	Analysis + Opinion July 21, 2021 How the US could really help Haiti Malick GhachemAmericas Quarterly What are the options for American policy makers to help Haiti? Military intervention or an international protectorate are out of the question on both moral and practical grounds. It is also difficult to envision Washington’s promised security assistance as more than temporary and limited.
	News@E40 July 14, 2021 2020 + 2021 Infinite Mile Award celebration The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) hosted a virtual event to celebrate MIT SHASS staff who received the Infinite Mile Award. The Center’s former system administrator Faith Basaga along with MISTI program directors Rosabelli Coelho-Keyssar and Alicia Goldstein Raun were among the recipients. Others represented fields across the School, including: the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL Global and J-PAL North America); Economics; Global Languages; Literature; Music and Theater Arts.
	In the News July 12, 2021 China is building over 100 missile silos in the desert—Is it playing a nuclear “shell game”? Sebastien RoblinNational Interest Quoted: Vipin Narang's comments on Twitter were referenced in this article, including: “China seeking survivability to try to escape the pressure of America's first strike advantage is unsurprising and unalarming… We pursue counterforce and Ballistic Missile Defense precisely to put pressure on our adversaries, but some then somehow act surprised when Moscow, Beijing, and Pyongyang take the bait. Using their reaction to justify even more buildup is just a recipe for the spiral model, on your dime."
	In the News July 8, 2021 Global collaboration surges post-pandemic MIT News MIT is a focal point for the type of collaborative problem-solving that makes an impact around the world ... This “MIT mindset,” however, is not just limited to campus, as evidenced by the plethora of faculty collaboration with institutions across the globe, and MIT International Science and Technology Initiatives (MISTI) continues to make many of these research partnerships possible.
	Analysis + Opinion July 7, 2021 Politicians aren’t usually saints. But Pope Francis just put one on the path to sainthood. Emma Campbell-MohnThe Washington Post, Monkey Cage Is the pope endorsing the European Union? Emma Campbell-Mohn, a PhD student in the Department of Political Science and the Security Studies Program, explains in a recent essay in the Washington Post's Monkey Cage.
	Analysis + Opinion July 2, 2021 Freedom of navigation operations: A mission for unmanned systems Trevor Prouty By properly executing a transition to unmanned system freedom of navigation operation (FONOPs), the United States can use technological advances to ensure a continuing ability to “provide a legal order that will, among other things, facilitate peaceful international uses of the oceans.”
	Analysis + Opinion July 1, 2021 US airstrikes in Iraq and Syria, explained Kristen de GrootPenn Today The United States has carried out airstrikes targeting Iranian-backed militias in Iraq and Syria in recent days. The Biden administration said the attacks on weapons storage facilities were meant to deter increasing violence by the militias Kata’ib Hezbollah and Kata’ib Sayyid al-Shuhada. The Iraqi Shia paramilitary groups had conducted drone attacks against US troops in Iraq over the last few months. Who exactly are those militia groups, and why is the US responding in this way at this time?
	Analysis + Opinion June 28, 2021 Why Iran may be in no hurry to get nuclear weapons even without a nuclear deal Mayumi FukushimaRand Corporation History shows that many countries with advanced nuclear technologies but without nuclear bombs opt to stay that way, rather than rushing to build nuclear weapons as soon as they can.