Impeachment Charge Introduced

The House will vote Wednesday to impeach President Donald Trump for inciting the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol last week, just seven days before the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden, as Politico reports.

Virus Surges

The nation’s seven-day average of coronavirus-related deaths has broken past 3,000 a day, reaching 3,249 on Sunday. And the cumulative total of virus deaths surpassed 375,000 on Monday, as the NYT reports.

Cuba Named a State Sponsor of Terrorism

The Trump administration is putting Cuba back on the list of countries that are considered to be state sponsors of terrorism, a senior U.S. official said, rescinding a 2015 move by the Obama administration to thaw ties to the onetime Cold War adversary, as the WSJ reports.

Global Forecast 2021

Global Forecast is an annual collection of essays by CSIS experts focused on the critical issues facing the United States and the world in the year ahead. This year's first three papers look at the prospects for denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula, foreign aid as a tool in great power competition, and the U.S.'s future in the Middle East.

Coronavirus Crisis Update

The Coronavirus Crisis Update podcast brings you the latest updates and analysis from CSIS experts and the leaders directing the global response. Past guests include NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, White House Chief of Staff-designate Ron Klain, IHME Director Dr. Chris Murray, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Representative Tom Cole (R-OK), Former FDA Commissioner Peggy Hamburg, and more. Listen on Apple Podcasts & Spotify.

Video Shorts

Check out CSIS’s new series of video shorts: “Data Unpacked,” Testify,” “What's Happening,” “Preview,” and “High Resolution.” And don’t forget to subscribe to the CSIS YouTube Channel!

In That Number

375,000

The total of Covid deaths surpassed 375,000 on Monday.

Source: NYT

Critical Quote

“Whether impeachment can pass the United States Senate is not the issue. The issue is we have a president who most of us believe participated in encouraging an insurrection and attack on this building, and on democracy and trying to subvert the counting of the presidential ballot.”

— House Majority Leader Stenny Hoyer (D-MD)

iDeas Lab

The CSIS Project on Nuclear Issues (PONI) has released its third brief in the Deep Dive Debrief series exploring how climate, economic, and political trends in the Arctic region impact U.S. strategic interests.

The Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab at CSIS enhances our research with the latest in cutting-edge web technologies, design, and multimedia.

Optics

(Photo credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/ AFP/Getty Images.) U.S. Capital police react after the casket with fallen police officer, Brian Sicknick, passed during a funeral procession in Washington, D.C.

This Town Tomorrow

Tomorrow, at 5:00 p.m., please join the CSIS China Power Project for a panel discussion on Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific regional security architecture, specifically focused on views from the US, Japan, and Australia.

And, at 9:30 a.m., the Peterson Institute for International Economics will consider: Is it time for a global agreement on taxing global capital?

Then, at 12:30 p.m., the American Society of International Law will discuss how the United States can navigate and shape the global anti-corruption regime moving forward.

Video

On Friday, the CSIS-LSHTM High-Level Panel on Vaccine Confidence and Misinformation hosted a discussion on reaching underserved populations with Covid-19 vaccines, health, and social support. DC Health Director LaQuandra Nesbitt; Washington State’s Secretary of Health Dr. Umair A. Shah; Denise Gray-Felder of Communication for Social Change Consortium; and Panel Co-Chair Heidi J. Larson of the Vaccine Confidence Project™ at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Watch the conversation with J. Stephen Morrison and Katherine E. Bliss here.

Podcasts

In the latest episode of Coronavirus Crisis Update, Dr. Luciana Borio, a member of President-elect Biden’s Covid-19 Advisory Group, spoke with J. Stephen Morrison and I on the challenges of vaccine deployment.

Listen on Spotify & Apple Podcasts.

Smiles

One of my favorite organizations is Headcount, a non-partisan organization that uses the power of music to register voters and promote participation in democracy. Headcount’s executive director Andy Bernstein came on my “Truth of the Matter” podcast a couple of weeks ago to talk about the work they do.

In the lead-up to the Georgia Senate runoff elections, Headcount worked hard to register voters in the state and held a free virtual concert called “Georgia Comes Alive.” This fantastic set by The Lame Ducks (Bob Weir, Dave Schools, Jeff Chimenti, Jay Lane) will give you a sense of the critical importance of Headcount’s mission
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHgOVK314sU. The set list isn’t bad either: Truckin’>The Other One>Ashes to Ashes.

I urge you to visit https://www.headcount.org/ to learn more about Headcount.

I invite you to email me at [email protected] and follow me on Twitter @handrewschwartz

The Evening is my daily guide to key insights CSIS brings to the events of the day. It is composed with the External Relations team: Emma Colbran, Caleb Diamond, and Kendal Gee.