Republicans Have a Bill to Repeal Obamacare. They Don’t Know Exactly What It Will Do
Republicans Have a Bill to Repeal Obamacare. They Don’t Know Exactly What It Will Do: Senate Republicans have just days to pass a bill that would repeal major chunksof the Affordable Care Act, scale back federal spending on health care and dramatically change...
North Korea says it may test hydrogen bomb over Pacific Ocean
North Korea says it may test hydrogen bomb over Pacific Ocean: North Korea threatened early Friday to detonate a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean in what the nation called the “highest level of hardline countermeasure in history.” The threat...
Divided Democratic Party Debates Its Future as 2020 Looms
Divided Democratic Party Debates Its Future as 2020 Looms: Like virtually all Democrats, Tim Ryan is no fan of Donald Trump. But as he speeds through his northeastern Ohio district in a silver Chevy Suburban, the eight-term Congressman sounds almost as frustrated with...
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What Brookings experts are saying about the confirmation of Donald Trump’s nominees
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
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...
Reducing Inequality in the Trump Era
In a lot of ways, 2016 was a big year for reducing inequality. Five states raised their minimum wage through citizen-led ballot initiatives. A job-killing free trade agreement, the TPP, was blocked as a result of massive public demonstrations against it. More...
Global economic forces conspire to stymie U.S. manufacturing
One factor contributing to the rise of populist sentiment in the United States has been the decline in manufacturing jobs, from 17 million in 2000 to 11 million in 2010, with a small bounce-back since then. President-elect Trump promises to bring manufacturing jobs...
What’s new and what’s not in the U.N. resolution on Israeli settlements
The long-anticipated coda of the Obama-Netanyahu relationship did not disappoint in its drama: With a U.S. abstention, Ambassador Samantha Power allowed U.N. Security Council Resolution 2334 on Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem to pass 14 votes...
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