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Are Judges Political?
Over the past two decades, the United States has seen an intense debate about the composition of the federal judiciary. Are judges "e;activists"e;? Should they stop …
Future of Lousy Jobs?
Politicians, journalists, and the public have expressed rising concern about the declineor percieved declinein middle-class jobs. The U.S. work force is viewed as increasingly …
Skeptic's Case for Nuclear Disarmament
In 2007 two former U.S. secretaries of state, a defense secretary, and a former senator wrote persuasively in the Wall Street Journal that the time had come to move seriously …
Self-Enforcing Trade
The World Trade Organizationbackbone of today's international commercial relationsrequires member countries to self-enforce exporters' access to foreign markets. Its dispute …
Child Protection
The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is the first nationally representative study of children who have been reported to authorities as suspected victims …
Special Interest
Why are America's public schools falling so short of the mark in educating the nation's children? Why are they organized in ineffective ways that fly in the face of common sense, …
World Challenged
A Brookings Institution Press and the Nixon Center publicationIn this candid and sobering account, former Russian premier Yevgeny M. Primakov considers the threats posed by …
Toward an East Asian Exchange Rate Regime
East Asian exchange rates have become a global flashpoint. U.S. policymakers blame artificially low Asian currency values for global imbalances, including America's ballooning …
Defense Policy Choices for the Bush Administration, 2001-2005
This latest study in the Brookings series on U.S. defense strategy and the defense budget reviews current American military capabilities and offers suggestions for the new …
Alliance Curse
In Alliance Curse, Hilton Root illustrates that recent U.S. foreign policy is too often misguided, resulting in misdirected foreign aid and alliances that stunt political and …
Believer
In The Believer, Will McCants tells the story of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS), a group so brutal and hardline that even al-Qaida deemed them …
American Foundations
Foundations play an essential part in the philanthropic activity that defines so much of American life. No other nation provides its foundations with so much autonomy and freedom …