Long a tool of repression, surveillance has become easier and cheaper in the digital age. Today, over 75 countries use artificial intelligence (AI) for surveillance purposes.

SOURCE: "Promote and Build: A Strategic Approach to Digital Authoritarianism" by CSIS's Erol Yayboke and Sam Brannen. 

Among national security experts, 79 percent think the United States would prevail in a conflict with China in the Western Pacific today, but just 54 percent think that would be true ten years from now. 

SOURCE: "Mapping the Future of U.S. China Policy" led by CSIS's Michael J. Green. 

There are still over 20 million Americans without any or enough work. Failure to pass a big enough stimulus during this historical crisis could leave permanent scars on the U.S. economy and psyche.

SOURCE: "Why Stimulus Today Helps Deficit and Climate Hawks of Tomorrow" by CSIS's Lachlan Carey. 

At the height of the space race with the Soviet Union in the 1960s, federal funding for Research and Development (R&D) represented over 1.6 percent of GDP. By 2017, government funding for all types of R&D declined to 0.6 percent of GDP. 

SOURCE: "Sharpening America's Innovative Edge" by CSIS's Matthew Goodman, Dylan Gerstel, William Reinsch, and Scott Miller.