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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 2, 2005
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Social Security Crisis in 2018? Ridiculous
Take a look at this Washington Post article by Jonathan Weisman, which the big blogs have justly pounced on. The initial framing of Weisman’s article is just way, way off. Social security in no way…
February 21, 2005
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
The confused conservatives on the Washington Post oped page …
The Washington Post put out an oped on the partial privatization of Social Security over the weekend, which Kevin Drum appropriately jumped on.One item in the oped jumped out at me:The second risk i…
March 19, 2010
Japan
Japan Hearing on Capitol Hill
This week I testified in front of the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Environment on the U.S.-Japan relationship. Judging by the Japanese press coverage, it was c…
April 20, 2012
Education
Policy Initiative Spotlight: Louisiana’s Educational Overhaul
Today's "Policy Initiative Spotlight" focuses on the sweeping education reforms taking place in the state of Louisiana, which is fast becoming a kind of national laboratory for proponents of choice-b…
June 18, 2012
United States
Targeted Killings and Congressional Oversight
Late Friday afternoon, the Obama administration marginally pulled back the curtain on targeted killings conducted by the U.S. military—but not those carried out by the CIA—in Somalia and Yemen. Under…
