Good Evening,
It's Tuesday, September 14th. |
Biden Wants 70 Percent of the World Vaccinated by Next September
President Biden plans to call on global leaders to make new commitments to fight the coronavirus pandemic, including fully vaccinating 70 percent of the world’s population by next September, as the Washington Post reports. |
Britain’s Booster Plan
Prime Minister Boris Johnson of Britain announced a plan on Tuesday to offer all those age 50 and older a booster vaccine as part of a winter coronavirus strategy—plunging Britain into a growing debate over whether lower-income countries should get shots first, as the NYT reports. |
Iranian Guards Physically Harassed Female U.N. Nuclear Inspectors
Iranian security guards have physically harassed several female United Nations atomic agency inspectors at a nuclear facility over the past few months, diplomats say, and the U.S. has demanded that Iran stop the behavior immediately, as the WSJ reports. |
Executive Education
Crash Course: Trade Policy with the Trade Guys is a two-day, online seminar for public and private sector professionals working on international trade matters and seeking to improve knowledge of American trade policy and politics. Register here. |
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
9.1%
Poverty in the United States declined last year, dropping from 11.8 percent in 2019 to 9.1 percent in 2020, due to the government's enormous relief effort that included direct checks, unemployment benefits, and food aid.
Source: NYT |
Critical Quote
“I may sound like a broken record. I don’t care. I will continue to call for vaccine equity until we get it.”
— WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus |
iDeas Lab
Analysis earlier this year revealed that of 17,369 women-owned businesses indexed in Afghanistan, the majority are less than five years old. While women entrepreneurship in Afghanistan remains nascent, it has created more than 129,000 jobs, over three-quarters of which were held by women.
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: Brandon Bell/Staff/Getty Images.) Debris and damaged road construction are left after Tropical Storm Nicholas moved through the area on September 14, 2021 in Houston, Texas. |
Recommended Reading
"Beyond COVAX: The Importance of Public-Private Partnerships for Covid-19 Vaccine Delivery to Developing Countries" by CSIS's Conor M. Savoy and Elena Méndez-Leal. |
This Town Tomorrow
At 11:00 a.m., day three of CSIS's U.S. Innovation Competitiveness Summit will convene leading experts for panels on technology transfer investment and innovation.
Before, at 10:00 a.m., CSIS’s Steve Morrison sits down with Dr. Leonard Rubenstein of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to discuss his new book, Perilous Medicine: The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War.
After, at 1:00 p.m., The Hill hosts Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rep. Garret Graves (R-LA), and leading industry executives for a conversation on developing a zero-emissions American shipping infrastructure. |
Video
Yesterday, the CSIS Middle East Program hosted a conversation on sustainable development in the Middle East with HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. |
Podcasts
This week, The Impossible State discusses human rights and the Biden administration’s potential power to reduce suffering in North Korea.
Listen on Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
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Smiles
"I've had enough of all this hard-core loneliness.
I don't think pain is so romantic."
Like I said, I think about Tom Petty every single day. This clip from ’82 shows Petty and the Heartbreakers at their stripped down, garage band best: youtu.be/_cwgzXXwTyo |
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