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
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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
Exxon’s Russian Success
By: Glen Johnson The urban landscape of contemporary Moscow is a far cry from its Marxist-Leninist days. Indeed, one would now be hard-pressed to find a major American fast food company whose presence is not ubiquitous in Moscow; among more recent additions to the scene one will find Papa Johns, Wendy’s, and Burger King. The … Continue reading
The Conflict between Environmental Regulation and Regulatory Principles
By: Alan Ahn One keystone of the American regulatory system is the cost-benefit analysis. In other words, the costs and benefits of various regulatory options should be accurately weighed, and the regulation ultimately selected should pose the least burden on society and provide the greatest net benefit. While this is a great idea on paper, … Continue reading
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The Most Colorful Ambassador
In a illuminating interview on the Colbert Report on August 15, 2011, the current US Ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, drew an curious parallel between the annual opening speeches on the UN General Assembly (UNGA) and the famous Star Wars cantina scene. She did it in a joking tone, as expected from a show … Continue reading
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