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	In the News January 22, 2020 Study: State-level adoption of renewable energy standards saves money and lives Nancy W Stauffer MIT News MIT researchers review renewable energy and carbon pricing policies as states consider repealing or relaxing renewable portfolio standards. Emil Dimanchev SM ’18, a senior research associate at the MIT Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, had his outreach relating to the Ohio testimony supported by the Policy Lab at the MIT Center for International Studies.
	In the News January 21, 2020 Saudi Arabia runs squalid, abusive jails for women disowned by their male guardians — a forgotten chapter in its rush to champion women’s rights Bill BostockBusiness Insider Hala Aldosari quoted: “How women are treated is very much determined by the staff,” she said. “It’s worse when they bring low-skilled people in to work with women left with no supervision. Because of the gender division and lack of transparency they abuse power, and there’s no way for the women to address the issues.”
	In the News January 19, 2020 Spies being left exposed in the digital age Ben MacintyreThe Times Joel Brenner quoted: Everyone leaves digital footprints, whether intentionally or otherwise. Joel Brenner, a former top counterintelligence official, told Yahoo: “It’s extremely difficult now to run cover operations when so much is known and can be known about almost everybody.”
	News@E40 January 15, 2020 IPL completed 5th annual call for proposals The Policy Lab works with MIT researchers who seek to build relationships with the policy community and engage with policymakers. They concluded their fifth call for proposals and had a near record turnout with 40 proposals. Final selections will be made by February 14, 2020.
	In the News January 14, 2020 Iran nuclear deal continues to unravel Tonya MosleyWBUR Here and Now Iran suspended all limits on its production of enriched uranium required by the deal after the American drone strike that killed Iran's top military commander this month. Jim Walsh discusses the implications.
	Analysis + Opinion January 13, 2020 Here’s how to regulate artificial intelligence properly David EdelmanThe Washington Post If we’re going to govern AI, we need to recognize it for what it is: a tool, with innumerable uses. And that means we need to govern it for the ways people actually use it, and not as a phenomenon in and of itself.
	In the News January 13, 2020 How exiled Saudi Arabian activists are quietly building a resistance movement Ty JoplinAl Bawaba Al Bawaba spoke with Hala Aldosari, a Saudi human rights activist who stands on the vanguard of digitally organizing a resistance movement to the Saudi regime while in exile.
	In the News January 8, 2020 What's the path forward on Iran? Tiziana Dearing, Jamie BolognaWBUR Radio Boston Now a senior research fellow at CIS, Joel Brenner—former inspector general of the National Security Agency and head of US counterintelligence in the Obama administration—joins us to make sense of where we are with Iran and what happens next.
	In the News January 8, 2020 Trump’s inaccurate statements about the conflict with Iran Linda QiuThe New York Times Jim Walsh quoted: Mr Trump’s claim blaming the nuclear accord for Iranian aggression rather than his withdrawal from it is “almost an inverted reality,” said Jim Walsh, a research associate at MIT’s Security Studies Program and an expert on nuclear issues and the Middle East.
	In the News January 8, 2020 After Iran strikes back, President Trump indicates a de-escalation Jim BraudeWGBH Greater Boston Jim Walsh, a senior research associate at MIT’s Security Studies Program, joined Jim Braude to discuss the events of the last week and what else may be on the horizon in US-Iran relations.