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Brookings Senior Fellow Norman Eisen explains how the presidential power to pardon pays off for two select turkeys every year for the Thanksgiving holiday. The annual tradition gives Americans the ...
Brookings Senior Fellow Norman Eisen unpacks the extremely broad but not unlimited power of presidents to issue pardons and in which cases President Trump can or should issue pardons to former or c...
Brookings Fellow Molly Reynolds unpacks the dysfunctional congressional budget process, explaining how increasing partisanship and flaws in the current legislative process have created a congressio...
Brookings Visiting Fellow Thomas Hill explains Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s campaign to reorganize the State Department, how it differs from the efforts of past secretaries, and explores the ...
Brookings Fellow Joseph Parilla discusses the renegotiation of NAFTA 25 years after its creation and explains the importance of NAFTA to the U.S. economy at both the national and local level. Paril...
Tom Wheeler, Brookings Fellow and former chairman of the FCC, explains what the Open Internet Rule is and the positive outcomes it generates for both internet service providers and consumers. He al...
Brookings Senior Fellow Phil Wallach discusses what the U.S. debt ceiling is, how it came into existence, and the issues it causes. Wallach also explains the difference between the United States de...
Amid President Trump’s criticisms of Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Brookings Senior Fellow and Editor of the Lawfare blog Benjamin Wittes unpacks Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein’s options in dea...
Shortly after President Trump visited Saudi Arabia for a summit with Islamic leaders, the Saudi government announced that they would cut diplomatic ties with neighboring Qatar. Brookings Senior Fel...
In 2012, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback sought to boost the state’s economy by sharply cutting income taxes across the board. Senior Fellow Bill Gale explains that this experiment in supply-side tri...
Brookings Senior Fellow Qi Ye explains the impact of the withdrawal of the United States from the Paris Agreement, specifically on China. He discusses China’s $3.1 billion pledge under the Paris Ag...
Brookings Senior Fellow Norm Eisen explains the role of a special counsel in an investigation. Eisen focuses heavily on Special counsel Robert Mueller, his investigation into ties between President...
After this year’s protests in Baltimore, residents aim to put their city back together and the city's youth have an essential role to play in transforming the community. For Brookings content on Ba...
Patrick and Beth Collins share how they tried to manage their daughter’s epilepsy symptoms with conventional drugs before they moved on to medical marijuana.
According to Brookings Fellow John Hudak, it’s time for the federal government to recognize the serious policy risks born from limiting medical marijuana research. To learn more, http://www.brooki...
Bruce Riedel shares the gripping story of President Kennedy's high stakes decision-making during the Sino-Indian war, one of the nations' finest hours of diplomacy.
America’s “advanced industries” stand out as an important element for the future of the U.S. economy and they create good jobs in dozens of high-value, high-technology fields.
Nuclear engineers Leslie Dewan and Mark Massie share their progress on creating safer and more efficient nuclear energy technologies to power the world and address the looming threat of climate cha...
What happens when a conservative president makes a liberal professor from the Ivy League his top urban affairs adviser? Stephen Hess, who was Richard Nixon's biographer and Daniel Moynihan's deputy...
Pat Mulroy, former general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority, talks about the growing water crisis in the West, where Lake Mead is now at its lowest level since the Hoover Dam was buil...
Drought continues to wreak havoc in the American west, especially in places like Lake Mead. The impact of climate change plays itself out in the water arena says Brookings Senior Fellow Pat Mulroy,...
On September 9, the Energy Security Initiative (ESI) at Brookings hosted an event focusing on the future of U.S. energy security and oil export policy.
Al Gore, Former U.S. Vice President: The report released by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change determined that scientists are 95% certain of the man-made causes of global warming.
Laurent Fabius, Foreign Minister of France: Our focus on the planet is connected to our very survival. We are on the edge of a climatic abyss. In fact, we have 500 days to avoid climate chaos.
On February 4, the Energy Security Initiative (ESI) at Brookings hosted Brookings Trustee Jim Rogers and ESI Nonresident Senior Fellows Mike Chesser and Ron Binz to discuss the future of the electr...
Warwick McKibbin: The recession has affected climate change policy in two significant ways: it's led to lower levels of greenhouse gas emissions and smaller budgets for troubleshooting the problems.
As the U.S. prepares to assume chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2015, a new policy brief from the Energy Security Initiative at Brookings examines how the U.S. can elevate the Arctic as a prio...
On March 13, the Energy Security Initiative (ESI) at Brookings hosted a discussion on the restructuring of the electricity sector in Japan and comparing it to the experience of deregulation in the ...