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Analysis: Can a president at war with both Republicans and Democrats govern?

by armine | Jul 31, 2017 | Bottom Right, Top Right

Analysis: Can a president at war with both Republicans and Democrats govern?: Donald Trump is becoming a president without a party. From the start of his unconventional campaign two years ago, Trump has been more of a populist than a Republican, from his combative...

Donald Trump Jr., Sub-Master of the Universe

by armine | Jul 13, 2017 | Bottom Right, Top Left

Donald Trump Jr., Sub-Master of the Universe: The most emblematic novel of the 1980s, Tom Wolfe’s “The Bonfire of the Vanities,” was published 30 years ago this October. It’s often been called a satire, but if you grew up in or around New York during that time, as I...

A “Brazilian way”? Brazil’s approach to peacebuilding

by editorshay | Feb 26, 2017 | Bottom Right

Since 2000, a number of “rising powers” have sought a more active global role commensurate with their economic status and regional positions of influence. Brazil, in particular, has followed a high-profile path in seeking to enhance its strategic profile and influence...

Women and representative governance in India

by editorshay | Feb 19, 2017 | Bottom Right

Brookings India Senior Fellow Shamika Ravi recently presented glimpses of her work on women and representative governance in India to a group of students from New York University. Dr. Ravi presented her research through three main perspectives namely, governance,...

What Brookings experts are saying about the confirmation of Donald Trump’s nominees

by editorshay | Jan 19, 2017 | Bottom Right

Donald Trump’s nominees to cabinet and cabinet-level posts in his new administration have been appearing before Senate committees in recent weeks. Additional hearings are expected in the coming weeks, after the inauguration. Brookings experts have been offering their...

To confront North Korea, talk first and get tough later

by editorshay | Jan 7, 2017 | Bottom Right

Today we are again approaching a crisis with North Korea, and again the cause is its nuclear program. A war in 1994 would have been terrible, but we were able to avoid it with diplomacy (the Agreed Framework, from which the United States and North Korea withdrew in...