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In our last newsletter of 2022, we're bringing you a special message from RAND president and CEO Jason Matheny. Policy Currents will be back in your inbox in January. Until then, have a safe holiday season and a happy new year.
The past few years have been a crash course in how to live through extraordinary, challenging times, and 2022 was no exception. It brought the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II, fresh uncertainty after the end of Roe v. Wade, and gutting reminders about the persistence of gun violence in the United States.
As I reflect on 2022, I'm thinking about the gravity of these and other policy challenges and the very real impacts they've had—and will continue to have—on people's lives.
I'm also feeling profoundly grateful. This summer, I was humbled to begin serving as the new president and CEO of RAND, an organization that exists to help solve the world's most important problems.
The only way to confront such challenges is to make decisions based on evidence. Producing evidence through research and analysis is what RAND does. It's why I've idolized this place since I was 18. And it's one of the reasons I'm optimistic about the future, despite the challenges facing our world.
It would be impossible for me to capture all the important work that RAND does in a year. But here are ten times I was inspired by RAND's efforts to bring insight to some of the biggest policy stories of 2022.
— Jason Matheny, President and CEO
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