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A young mother smiles and hugs her baby in Nairobi.
Maternal health
In Kenya, a different path
Published Aug 18, 2016
Jhpiego helps Nairobi youth set up small businesses, avoid crimes that target pregnant women / ONE
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Rio Olympics
North Korea's 'sports diplomacy'
Published Aug 16, 2016
SAIS visiting scholar on the fate of North Korean Olympians who return home without medals / BBC News
Donald Trump shrugs at podium at Phoenix rally
Election 2016
Who founded ISIS? It's complicated
Published Aug 12, 2016
SAIS Dean Vali Nasr links rise of Islamic terror group to sectarian conflict in Iraq, 2003 U.S. invasion / The Huffington Post
Election 2016
How secure are our votes?
Published Aug 9, 2016
Computer security experts discuss vulnerability of voting machines, rolls in wake of recent DNC hack
Illustration of someone holding phone, playing Pokémon Go
Get up and go
Pandemic or prescription?
Published Aug 4, 2016
A public health perspective on the Pokémon Go gaming craze, which has tens of millions talking—and walking / Global Health NOW
Commentary
Conservation complication
Published Aug 2, 2016 Video
Efforts to reduce water use in agriculture could end up having the opposite effect, JHU expert writes / Bloomberg View
National security
To brief, or not to brief
Published Aug 2, 2016
Former acting CIA director, SAIS faculty member discusses importance of briefing presidential candidates / NPR
Commentary
Assessing the ISIS threat
Published July 29, 2016
John McLaughlin, former acting CIA director, cautions that end of terror group's reign is not near / The Cipher Brief
Economics
An avoidable collapse?
Published July 22, 2016
Economist Laurence Ball's research suggests Fed could have prevented 2008 Lehman Brothers failure / The New York Times
Aspen Ideas Festival
Daniels: Regulation, politics 'hobbling' U.S. public universities
Published July 12, 2016 Video
President also discusses declines in research funding, Baltimore's trajectory during 55-minute talk