President Joe Biden has introduced a moratorium on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. With nearly 25 percent of U.S. oil and gas production coming from federal lands, the policy shift may have significant implications for future investment and production.

SOURCE: "Biden Makes Sweeping Changes to Oil and Gas Policy" by CSIS's Ben Cahill. 

Researchers at the University of Oxford have identified governments and non-state actors in 70 countries carrying out organized social media manipulation worldwide, or what they call the “global disinformation order.”

SOURCE: "Protecting Democracy in an Age of Disinformation: Lessons from Taiwan" by CSIS's Jude Blanchette, Bonnie Glaser, Scott Kennedy, and Scott Livingston. 
 

Using estimates of unemployment and poverty, Feeding America concluding that, in 2020, 15.6 percent of Americans could have been food insecure—the greatest annual increase in food insecurity, in over twenty years including the Great Recession. 

SOURCE: "Food Insecurity Crises at Home and Abroad: Why Biden Must Lead on Both" by CSIS's Caitlin Welsch. 

Only 229 North Koreans sought admission and were resettled in the South Korea—the lowest level in two decades. With conditions making it even more difficult for defectors to successfully leave North Korea, improvement in the near future is not likely.

SOURCE: "The Number of North Korean Defectors Drops to Lowest Level in Two Decades" by Ambassador Robert King.