This summer, Social Security – the government program that provides a steady check for seniors – turned 75. In Washington, lawmakers celebrated its platinum anniversary not with champagne, but with a heated argument over whether to reform the costly entitlement program by slashing benefits or raising the retirement age. Indeed, More…
In 2002, the National Security Strategy issued by George W. Bush expressly precluded the United States from allowing a new superpower to develop. Speaking today at the Brookings Institution to officially unveil President Obama’s National Security Strategy, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissed the idea that the U.S. had More…
It’s tax day, meaning there will be no end to the rhetorical grandstanding from conservative lawmakers about how the Democrats’ “tax-and-spend” policies are stifling the economy and preventing average folks from achieving the American Dream.
Conveniently, they will ignore these new numbers from the Tax Policy Center, a More…
I’m at the Brookings Institution, where Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is presenting the Obama administration’s agenda for next week’s United Nation’s General Assembly session, the administration’s first. How will the administration handle Iranian “President” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Manhattan, and his agreement to move ahead with nuclear More…
As first reported by Laura Rozen, the White House announced that Lee Feinstein from the Brookings Institution, an early and enthusiastic Hillary Rodham Clinton supporter, has been nominated to be ambassador to Poland. Poland can be reassured that its U.S. ambassador has the trust of the secretary of state.
NPR’s report this morning that the Brookings Institution’s Benjamin Wittes has proposed what’s expected to be a highly influential plan for “preventive detention” — which could lock up “dangerous” terror suspects potentially forever without charge or trial — gives even more urgency to the question that Spencer raised More…
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