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October 9, 2020[[link removed]]Wilson Weekly
Blair Ruble’s Portraying the Soul of a People: African Americans Confront Wilson’s Legacy From the Washington Stage , captures the response of theatre artists in the nation’s capital to the 1916 White House screening of D. W. Griffith's The Birth of the Nation— and growing resegregation of U.S. society in that era. [link removed] [[link removed]]
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United States Air Force Arctic Strategy: Perspectives and Insights What Does the Taliban Want?
“The Arctic can't be a pickup game,” argues General Patrick K. Gamble, Commander, Pacific Air Forces (retired). “The only way you know what you don't know is to go do it. Is to actually rehearse. Not simulate, but rehearse.” “I don’t believe the Taliban want their rank and file to know that they’re willing to forgo the emirate until and unless progress is made in the intra- Afghan talks,” observes regional analyst Ibraheem Bahiss.


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Facial recognition garners negative headlines. But will prohibiting it work? The Science and Technology Innovation Program’s new report, Beyond Bans: Policy Options for Facial Recognition and the Need for a Grand Strategy on AI [[link removed]] , argues that a broad ethical framework for AI anchored in high-level principles may be the best start.


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Seeking Strategic Advantage: How Geopolitical Competition and Cooperation are Playing Out in Space The Latino Vote: Will It Decide the U.S. Presidential Election?
“What’s the right balance to preserve our leadership in space and continue development in our national interest and scientific advancement discovery,” asked Rep. Kendra Horn (D-OK), “and also encourage a burgeoning commercial market?” “With any kind of demographic shift,” says Politico trade reporter Sabrina Rodriguez, “it takes awhile to see the sheer power of it.”


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"The Climate Crisis is a National Security Threat"
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Upcoming EVENTS
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The Perfect Weapon: David Sanger Discusses Upcoming HBO Documentary [[link removed]]October 13, 2020 // 1pm – 2pm
Manipulating the Masses: The Roots of the Modern Government Propaganda Machine [[link removed]]October 13, 2020 // 4pm – 5pm
Rolling Out a Vaccine for COVID-19: Present Prospects and Lessons from the Past [[link removed]]October 15, 2020 // 10am – 11:30 am
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Wilson In the News
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Unhinged or Reinvented? (Internationale Politik Quarterly) [[link removed]]
“Reinventing the transatlantic partnership will be painstaking work,” write Dan Hamilton. “It is unclear whether Europeans have the will, or Americans the patience, for it.”
Three reasons Washington should care about Mexico's meltdown (The Hill) [[link removed]]
Duncan Wood observes that “[f]or the United States, it is vitally important that Mexico does not fall into economic and financial crises as it has done so often in the past.”
Trump’s Illness and the History of Presidential Health (The New Yorker) [[link removed]]
Larry Altman tells The New Yorker’s Isaac Chotiner that “I think the doctor for a political leader has an additional obligation—this is my opinion—not to mislead the public.”
Women Will Save the Middle East (Moment) [[link removed]]
“Women no longer simply frame their diplomas as part of their dowries to hang in their husband’s homes,” writes Haleh Esfandiari, “but instead use them to gain employment.”


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