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Articles by Benjamin Day
NATO’s Dutch Disease: Can a Wartime Mindset Survive an Injection of Resources?
At the recent summit in The Hague, NATO reaffirmed its commitment to a “new war of production.” With fresh funding, heightened urgency, and rising expectations, the Alliance is cultivating a mindset that is focused, specialized, and execution-driven. But war rarely conforms to that kind of conveyor-belt thinking. Take something as seemingly straightforward as securing artillery supply. Shells are seen as NATO’s most predictable wartime need.
COVID-19, Aid, and Australia’s Strategic Imagination - Australian Institute of International Affairs
As strategic competition in the Pacific ratchets up, so too does the temptation to frame Australia’s interests in narrow, security-oriented terms. For years, Australia’s aid response has remained stubbornly “targeted and temporary,” but neglecting the role of international development constitutes a failure of strategic imagination.
Hong Kong’s Extradition Law Crisis: How Should Australia Respond? - Australian Institute of International Affairs
With no sign of Hong Kong protestors letting up or the crisis being substantively resolved, the Australian Government and Parliament should each take three initial measures to stand up for democratic values, rule of law and human rights. Images and videos of the mass protests against extradition law proposals in Hong Kong have been widely shown in Australian media. Rarely is Hong Kong so prominently on the front pages.
Of Cricket, Sandpaper and “Shadow Values”: What Australia’s Aid Program Says About Who We Are and Our Ability to Weather the Next Foreign Policy Crisis - AIIA
When it comes to Australia’s foreign aid spending, the Cameron Bancroft and Steven Smith ball tampering incident provides an illustrative analogy of the disconnect between our rhetoric and the reality of who we are and what we value as a nation. It was over the moment the image flashed up on the replay screen at Newlands. Before that, we could still tell ourselves that our cricket team played hard but fair.
'Everybody In, Nobody Out': What We Know So Far About the Medicare for All Act of 2019
As the 2019 legislative session in Congress kicks off, the Democratic majority in the House will, in very short order, have to address a national surge of support for Medicare for All (otherwise known as single-payer healthcare). At the close of the last Congress, almost two-thirds of Democratic Representatives had signed onto HR 676, the Expanded & Improved Medicare for All Act. They will be joined by the long list of freshman Democrats who ran and won on this issue.
Magnetic hysteresis up to 80 kelvin in a dysprosium metallocene single-molecule magnet
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Magnetic hysteresis up to 80 kelvin in a dysprosium metallocene single-molecule magnet
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Why Obamacare Didn’t Work
Obamacare has failed, and so will other market-based plans. We need a socialized system. News broke late last month that yet another of the nation’s largest health insurers, Aetna, is pulling out of state health exchanges in 2017. The company’s action marks the failure of every market-based reform included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The Disappearance of Hillary Clinton's Healthcare Platform
In an extraordinary magic trick, performed on a national scale, Hillary Clinton's healthcare platform has been disappeared. While policy analysts, news anchors, and columnists have been engaged in an intense debate over Bernie Sanders’s “Medicare for All” proposal, Clinton’s incremental alternative has escaped almost all scrutiny - even among those who say they prefer it.
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