Plus, Biden’s visit to Israel and regulating AI in residential property valuation.
| Russia, nuclear threats, and nuclear signaling Since Russia began its all-out assault on Ukraine in 2022, Vladimir Putin and others have rattled the nuclear saber in a bid to dissuade Kyiv from resisting and the West from supporting that resistance. Those nuclear threats have had limited success, writes Steven Pifer. They have not prompted Ukraine’s surrender, and while they slowed governments’ decisions on providing weapons, they did not stop the arms flow. In general, Moscow has done a poor job drawing nuclear red lines, he argues. The cacophony of Russian voices has produced nuclear signals that are confusing, contradictory, and increasingly dismissed as bluff. That should please neither the Kremlin nor the West. |
More research and commentary Biden’s visit to Israel. The president will be traveling to Israel at a moment of almost impossible complexity and uncertainty, in military, humanitarian, and political terms, writes Elizabeth N. Saunders in Good Authority. Regulating AI in residential property valuation. Automated valuations models (AVMs) play a significant role in the housing market, particularly in mortgage lending. If the role of AVMs is to be expanded, additional government safeguards should be put into place, Alex Engler and Sylvia Brown say. |
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