By: Savanna Shuntich Much of the controversy surrounding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) comes from the mandate found in section 1501, requiring all Americans above a certain income level to purchase healthcare. Experts like law professor Randy Barnett of Georgetown University claim that the mandate unconstitutionally relies on the commerce clause. He … Continue reading
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The FCC Won’t Let Me Be…
By: Alan Ahn In an article recently posted by CommLawBlog.com, it was reported that the FCC was searching the websites of broadcast stations in order to check for compliance with EEO (Equal Employment Opportunity) rules. More specifically, the article states that FCC staffers were personally verifying that stations were posting their required annual EEO reports … Continue reading
Healthy People 2020
By: Conor O’Malley Healthy People 2020 was introduced from George Washington University (GW) last year in an attempt to make the United States a more healthy country. Similar to their Healthy People 2010, the program is a 10-year objective to get the American people more aware of what they are eating, what they should be … Continue reading
Health Care Costs: Have We Considered Everything?
By: Ryan Holland Last week I had the chance to attend an event hosted by Health Affairs, called “The New Urgency to Lower Costs.” The topics addressed were pretty dry by themselves, and I found myself most interested during Q&A. Some members of the audience seemed to be more passionate about health care reform than … Continue reading
Intelligence Post 9/11
By: Joshua Plaschkes The American intelligence community has changed considerably since 9/11 in order to combat the asymmetric threat the U.S. now faces. Over the past decade, the intelligence community’s focus on a grand strategy for combating terrorism has evolved into an increasingly symbiotic relationship with the military and paramilitary in their tactical operations. … Continue reading
A Day at the Atlantic Council: Perspectives on the Russian-American Reset
By: Glen Johnson On Friday I had the good fortune of attending a talk at the Atlantic Council entitled “Russia and the West: Moving the Reset Forward?” The experts in attendance, ranging from academics to state officials, were top notch and the various themes covered proved very topical, such as “The State of the Reset” … Continue reading
The Kingdom
By: Conor O’Malley Even though it has been about four years since its release, I found myself watching The Kingdom, starring Jamie Foxx and Jennifer Garner the other day. It was not the first time I have seen it, but it was however, the first time I had watched it since studying abroad last spring. Granted … Continue reading
The Altar of Presidency
Gene Healy’s The Cult of the Presidency is one of those books that make you stop and ponder the conceptions that you held before reading it. Healy discusses how the Office of the President of the United States expanded its power from its constitutional limits established in the 18th century to an office that encompasses characteristics … Continue reading
What Does It Really Mean to be American?
Yesterday morning I attend a panel at the Brookings Institution on “What It Means to be American: New Poll Explores Attitudes in an Increasingly Diverse America”, organized in co-operation with the Public Religion Research Institute. The panel reported the results of a poll conducted by PRRI on attitudes that Americans have towards Islam, American Muslims, … Continue reading
Regime Change: Helping or Hurting Nonproliferation?
By: Alan Ahn The last time the term “regime change” had significance in the minds of the American public was during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Ostensibly, one of the primary purposes of the campaign was to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction. Nearly a decade later, regime change in the form of … Continue reading
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