Digital public technologies are digital assets that are publicly owned, publicly regulated, or open source, creating a level playing field for broad access or use. George Ingram, John McArthur, and Priya Vora discuss how this type of technology could help accelerate progress on the sustainable development goals, especially on addressing extreme deprivation and basic needs.
“Ideally, our formal institutions of election protection will work unimpeded and uncorrupted, and the administration of U.S. elections will proceed in a nonpartisan manner. But it is not enough to ask Americans to vote and to hope their votes will be counted,” argues Vanessa Williamson.
The United States has a deterrence problem, but what exactly that is depends on who you ask. Drawing on lessons from U.S. coercive efforts in the 1990s, Melanie Sisson writes that America’s tendency to treat deterrence as though it were a capability and not a strategy is the real problem.
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