How the FCC should take on broadband, security in Central Asia, and updating the Thrifty Food Plan.
| A healthy reform to SNAP: Updating the Thrifty Food Plan By modernizing and reconciling the four Congressionally-mandated inputs into the Thrifty Food Plan and removing cost-neutrality, the U.S. will better support food security, nutrition, health, and healthy development. Lauren Bauer explains how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits became outdated and how the Department of Agriculture fixed them. Read more |
| Russia and America’s overlapping legacies in Afghanistan Afghanistan’s evolving drama of state-building and state breakdown is highly complex, but one element that can be usefully singled out is U.S.-Russia interactions over a land in which both have intervened. Pavel Baev discusses Moscow and Washington’s experiences and what they mean for security in Central Asia. Read more |
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