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What the Trade War Reveals About China's Vulnerabilities and Power

Jun 10, 2025
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Efforts to Combat Forced Labor

Jan 8, 2025

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Apr 30, 2026

Gaps in State Workforce Priorities, Needs, and Training Programs: Findings from a National Scan of WIOA Plans and Eligible Training Provider Lists

The authors analyze Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) plans (2024–2027) and eligible training provider lists to assess how well state workforce development systems align with labor market demand.
Expert Insights

Apr 24, 2026

When Economic Security Meets Economic Statecraft: Principles for a New Era

Economic security policy and economic statecraft—once parallel domains—are now colliding. The authors trace this collision through five phases of U.S. policy since 2001 and propose four principles to guide policymakers in this new era.
Expert Insights

Mar 18, 2026

Proposing New Metrics for Economic Security Policy: A Worker Return-on-Investment Scorecard

This paper offers a new way to study how tools of economic statecraft — such as sanctions and export controls — affect U.S. workers. The proposed scorecard would help policymakers ensure that workers are not sidelined in economic security decisions.
Commentary

Feb 20, 2026

The War Is Coming Home to Russia

Western sanctions are biting harder into the fragile Russian economy. And there is growing evidence of the war's negative, long-term impacts on Russian society, from rising crime and corruption to worsening political repression.
Research

Feb 18, 2026

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Quitting When Marijuana Retail Markets Are Legal: Evidence from California

This research examines whether there is a corresponding difference in the response to the introduction of legal protection of marijuana retail markets.
Research

Feb 18, 2026

Managing Systemic Supply Chain Risk to the U.S. Economy from Trade Concentration and Geopolitical Conflict: The Roles of Insurance and Other Hedging Strategies

Global trade delivers materials and manufactured goods through supply chains worldwide to fuel national economies. This report examines policy issues related to managing systemic supply chain risks from trade concentration and geopolitical conflict.
Research

Feb 17, 2026

Export Controls on Artificial Intelligence and Uncrewed Aircraft Systems: Interagency Challenges

RAND researchers assessed how the United States might create an export control system that balances competition with China and secure proliferation of artificial intelligence and uncrewed aircraft systems.
Research

Feb 10, 2026

Just Work: Access to Worker Protections in the Changing World of Work

The authors analyze how the changing nature of employment is affecting workers' access to needed protections, appropriate remedies when those protections fail, and forms of insurance linked to traditional jobs.
Expert Insights

Feb 4, 2026

Old priorities, new contexts: The institutional roots and new developments of China's rare earth policy

This perspective explores how China has adapted their rare earth elements (REE) policy to build a system that not only shapes global supply chains but also leverages global dependence on the critical materials.
Commentary

Jan 30, 2026

Ukraine Will Be the Business Opportunity of the Decade

When the fighting stops, the most promising opportunities for U.S. companies won't be in Russia, but in Ukraine. With U.S. and European support, Ukraine is poised to emerge as a secure sovereign state deeply integrated with the global economy.
Research Summary

Jan 23, 2026

Four Governance Approaches to Securing Advanced AI

This brief summarizes RAND research on how the U.S. government and frontier artificial intelligence model developers can strengthen the industry’s security practices, identifying four practicable governance approaches.
Commentary

Dec 22, 2025

Would You Let Claude Do Your Taxes?

Today's large language models can write code and polish prose. But until people can trust AI to do their taxes, they shouldn't trust it to do their jobs. That gives us a little time to prepare—but not much.

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