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Under the measure, adults with fewer than six months left to live would have been able to apply for an assisted death if they had approval from two doctors and an expert panel.

A new study from the Brookings Institution looked at the effects of cell phone bans in schools after one year.

NPR's Sequoia Carrillo has our story.

The Brookings recent study on cell phone bans finds that usage of phones in schools by teens increased across the 2025-2026 school year, despite nearly all schools having some kind of ban in place.

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[outro music] The Lawfare Podcast is produced in cooperation with the Brookings Institution, and today it's produced in cooperation with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Our audio engineer this episode is the estimable Noam Osband of Goat Rodeo.

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The Lawfare Podcast is produced in cooperation with the Brookings Institution, and today it's produced in cooperation with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Our audio engineer this episode is the estimable Noam Osband of Goat Rodeo.

Hey, folks, I need you to become a material supporter of lawfare.

He previously worked in a number of think tanks and a number of capacities, also at the policy planning unit at the U.S. State Department, in the Obama administration.

He was at the Brookings Institution where I first met Jeremy in 2007.

I think we were dating each other.

2007?

Ah, I see.

They will have the AI write, according to a newly leaked report by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, or they will attribute the fake data to the Brookings Institution or the Rand Corporation.

Because human psychology dictates that if a random WordPress blog makes a wild claim about troop movements, you ignore it.

But if that same blog says, according to a classified brief from the Rand Corporation, a significant percentage of readers will internalize it as fact without verifying it.

As part of the proposal released on Wednesday, the administration said it was considering including a question in the census about the immigration status of participants, something civil rights groups have warned would deter immigrants with and without legal status from filling out the form out of fear of government retaliation.

The Trump administration is trying to omit pieces of the population they don't feel are real Americans, said William H. Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, and in many ways pulling back some of the trends and important policies that came into effect since the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

the white house referred questions to the commerce department which did not respond to requests for comment in the proposed rule posted on wednesday signed by mr trump's commerce secretary howard the administration said it was reassessing how it collects race and ethnicity data after substantial doubts about the meaning significance and impact of attempting to categorize persons by race and ethnicity surfaced in the national conversation

The hardest part was figuring out where to go.

And I was not in government at the time.

And in fact, Ivo, you and I were colleagues with our offices just two doors away from one another at the Brookings Institution.

I remember early in the morning heading down for a breakfast meeting, but then very quickly as the attacks unfolded, Brookings opened up its auditorium, put out a place for people to gather and watch the attacks as they unfolded.

And You know, that obviously will be seared in my mind forever.

But really, the days that followed, I think, are the ones that were the most intense, at least for me personally.

We began a search for my uncle who lived in the Poconos but had been visiting a friend and ended up being killed in the collapse of one of the towers.

And then in the weeks that followed, I had my own career pivot where I left the Brookings Institution and went into government.

And literally weeks later, I was working in the policy planning office at the State Department for Richard Haass and for Secretary Powell.

Oh, and he said when I care is care is pointing out that Iraq is George Bush's.

Vietnam was a quote from Kennedy at the Brookings Institution.

I will say I will say that I was listening to like a news report on the radio.

So I didn't physically I didn't visually see Ted Kennedy on the floor of the Senate.