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Beyond the Bracket: How basketball can prevent gun violence
1+ week, 14+ hour ago (1384+ words) Learn more about Play Smart Save Lives. Hanna Love, Amy Liu, Bethany Krupicka Thea Sebastian, Hanna Love Wednesday, 10:00 am - 11:00 am EDT LEVY: There's so many incidents of minor disputes, and there's a firearm involved and someone gets killed, and as…...
The promises—and realities—of converting offices into housing
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (152+ words) This publication is part of a'broader series'examining the potential of office-to-residential conversions across'six case study cities. The project is part of a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the research team is composed of contributors…...
Cyber Warfare and Navies: Digital Conflict in the Maritime Domain
3+ week, 6+ day ago (145+ words) In his chapter, Bruce Jones argues that the commercial maritime order is vulnerable to cyber threats, and outlines the implications for policymakers. Cyber Warfare and Navies: Digital Conflict in the Maritime Domain Cyber Warfare and Navies outlines the various threats…...
The US Postal Service’s fiscal crisis
2+ week, 6+ day ago (1068+ words) The problem is not that the Postal Service has stopped functioning. The challenge is that the financing model designed to support nationwide delivery depends on stable, monopoly-protected letter-mail revenue. As letter volumes have fallen, that revenue base has eroded. The…...
Postal systems worldwide confront the same financial pressures
3+ week, 2+ day ago (375+ words) Even as letter volumes decline, universal service obligations still require nationwide coverage at uniform terms. That means operators must maintain routes, personnel, and processing infrastructure even when less mail is flowing through the system. The result is a decline in…...
Challenges and opportunities for the North American auto industry in the 2026 USMCA renegotiation
4+ week, 1+ day ago (92+ words) This chapter is part of USMCA Forward 2026. While the Trump administration is unlikely to take up all these reforms of their own initiative, the need for congressional support offers leverage to make the kinds of tough demands that have long…...
Who we count shapes how we measure housing supply and affordability
4+ week, 2+ day ago (544+ words) How many homes does the country need to close its housing shortage? The answer depends on how we count households. Housing supply projections and affordability statistics translate people into households'and households into housing demand. But that framework simplifies complex living…...
Texas redistricting plan unlikely to add 5 new Republican seats
1+ mon, 12+ hour ago (345+ words) Currently, Republicans hold 25 of Texas" 38 House seats. To pick up five additional seats, Republicans targeted three South Texas districts (28, 34, 35) and one each in the Houston and Dallas areas (9, 32). However, in South Texas, Republican mapmakers may have made a crucial error....
When a postmark no longer tracks mailing
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (321+ words) This system was supported by a nationwide network of 195 SCFs. This scale and geographic distribution made same-day entry into processing routine rather than exceptional, embedding the postmark's reliability into legal and administrative systems. These long distances do not imply operational…...
Air traffic controllers and why there aren’t enough of them
4+ mon, 4+ week ago (531+ words) These shutdown-related absences are having an outsized impact, in part because many FAA facilities were already understaffed'a longstanding problem. Past government shutdowns and the COVID-19 pandemic contributed directly to this chronic shortage by repeatedly forcing the FAA to suspend its…...