School district leaders’ concerns about mental health and political polarization; how to bring stability to Russia’s backyard; what satellite images reveal about China's treatment of the Uyghur people; the final report from the Commission on Combating Synthetic Opioid Trafficking; and how expanding the child tax credit helped tackle child poverty. For more information on this week’s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

The dangers of NATO’s open-ended process of expansion; U.S. strategic competition with Russia; how U.S. health care systems emphasize volume over value; the need for a common definition of “climate migrants;” and how the military can prepare for the next pandemic. For more information on this week’s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

What the Pentagon can do better to prevent civilian casualties; how secondary school principals were doing one year into the pandemic; examining Americans’ drinking habits in the COVID-19 era; strategies to promote vaccination equity; and how a deeply divided American public could affect U.S. deterrence. For more information on this week’s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

Considering U.S.-Russia diplomacy in the context of the Ukraine crisis; how citizen science can help communities become safer and stronger; protecting the U.S. blood supply from future shocks; and new “visual essays” that show why people might join—and later leave—extremist groups. For more information on this week’s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

The geopolitical risks of tinkering with the climate; how NATO could help ease the Ukraine-Russia impasse; debating workers' compensation in the COVID-19 era; potentially huge cost savings from biosimilar drugs; and what the evidence says about education benefits for veterans. For more information on this week’s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

Why extremism and addiction may be similar; a better way to assess the risk of recidivism; how the United States could deliver on global vaccine diplomacy; modernizing America’s nuclear Triad; and how collaboration technologies could change demographic trends. For more information on this week’s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

Our top 10 list of RAND research projects covers a wide range of topics, including how stress is affecting America’s teachers; reforming the U.S. mental health care system; addressing the threat of violent extremism; China’s disappeared Uyghurs; and the high prices of prescription drugs in the United States. For more information on this week’s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

Women doctors make $2 million less over the course of their careers than their male counterparts; what to do about the weird U.S. job market; implementing social and emotional learning programs; assessing the trade-offs of decisions about U.S. military intervention; and RAND’s virtual hackathon. For more information on this week’s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

What could happen if Russia decides to invade Ukraine, the counter-intuitive sensibility of Taiwan’s new defense strategy, policy responses to climate migration, and new data on how Americans feel about sharing vaccines with other countries. For more information on this week’s episode, visit rand.org/podcast.

Brandon Baker, vice president of development at RAND, joins Deanna Lee for this special episode of Policy Currents. We discuss Tomorrow Demands Today, the most ambitious fundraising campaign that RAND has ever undertaken. Brandon updates us on the status of the campaign, how funds are being used to tackle difficult policy problems, and goals for the future. For more information, visit campaign.rand.org.