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Reuters/Jason Reed - An employee of the U.S. TSA checks the authenticity of a passenger's driver's license at Washington Reagan National Airport.

Save to My Portfolio Will Profiling Make our Skies Safer? A Governance Perspective on New TSA Guidelines

Daniel Kaufmann, January 07, 2010

The U.S. Transportation Security Administration has just instituted a nationality-based criterion under which travelers from a list of 14 countries are subject to special airport screening procedures. Daniel Kaufmann discusses the governance realities of these countries and recommends a more effective multi-pronged strategy for travel screening. Read More

Global Governance, National Security, Terrorism, Airline Industry, Developing Countries

SPOTLIGHT: U.S. Census


U.S. Census Bureau, Public Information Office (PIO) - Filling out a U.S. Census form.

Save to My Portfolio Census 2010 Can Count On Controversy

Audrey Singer, January 04, 2010

As the U.S. Census Bureau begins the 2010 Census, Andrey Singer highlights the largest challenges that the Bureau faces: ensuring that everyone is counted regardless of where they live, whom they live with, and—perhaps most controversially—whether or not they are authorized to live in the United States. Read More

U.S. Census, Demographics, Congressional Redistricting, Immigration

Legal Architecture For The War On Terror


Reuters/Kevin Lamarque - U.S. Attorney General Holder testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Save to My Portfolio No Place to Write Detention Policy

Benjamin Wittes and Jack Goldsmith, December 22, 2009

In the wake of a foiled Christmas Day attack on a flight to Detroit, the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to Yemen is drawing fresh scrutiny. But as Ben Wittes notes, one underlying problem is that Congress has not passed legislation setting terrorist detention policy. As a result, unelected federal judges are determining who is an enemy and who can be detained. Read More

Legal Architecture for the War on Terror, Justice and Law, Judges, U.S. Judiciary, U.S. Congress

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Assessing the Obama Administration’s First Year

During the presidential transition, Brookings scholars wrote a series of policy recommendations in 12 memos to incoming President Barack Obama. One year into the new presidency, our experts rate the progress of the new administration on those same issues in a series of daily commentary and video.

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TopicEducation

The economic and political well-being of any society requires a well-educated citizenry. Brookings’s work extends beyond the K-12 bookends to include pre-school interventions, higher education and the challenges of education in developing countries.

ExpertTed Gayer

Ted Gayer is the co-director of the Economic Studies program and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues, focusing particularly on public finance, environmental and energy economics, housing, and regulatory policy.

TopicHealth Care

Brookings is committed to producing innovative policy solutions to our nation’s most difficult challenges. The country may face no more important domestic policy challenge than the much-needed reform of our health care system. Through an institution-wide effort, Brookings delivers new ideas and offers policy solutions to improve health care both at home and globally.

Policy CenterCenter on Children and Families

The Center on Children and Families studies policies on the well-being of America's children and their parents and seeks a more effective means of addressing poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity in the United States.

ExpertVanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown focuses on the national security implications of illicit economies and strategies for managing them. She is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.

ExpertSuzanne Maloney

Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle East issues.

ProgramGovernance Studies

Governance Studies explores political institutions of the United States and other democracies to assess how they govern, how their practices compare and how citizens and public servants can advance sound governance.

Research ProjectLatin America Initiative

The Latin America Initiative provides high-quality, in-depth, and independent research across a range of economic and political issues, and offers policy recommendations aimed at U.S. and Latin American policymakers.

ExpertIsabel V. Sawhill

A nationally known budget expert, Isabel Sawhill focuses on domestic poverty and federal fiscal policy. She is also co-director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings.

ExpertAmy Liu

Amy Liu is deputy director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Her policy studies include economic competitiveness, metropolitan growth and development, governance reforms, urban reinvestment, and social equity.

Policy CenterEngelberg Center for Health Care Reform

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.

ExpertDomenico Lombardi

As president of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, Domenico Lombardi’s work at Brookings focuses on the international financial crisis and the reform of the IMF and the World Bank. He is an expert on G-20 and G8 Summits.

ExpertMark McClellan

Mark McClellan works on promoting high-quality, innovative and affordable health care. Once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. McClellan now directs the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform.

ExpertMwangi S. Kimenyi

Mwangi S. Kimenyi is a senior fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative. He focuses on Africa's development, including institutions for economic growth, the political economy, and private sector development.

Research ProjectBrookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement

The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement monitors displacement problems worldwide, works with governments, regional bodies, international organizations and civil society to create more effective policies and institutional arrangements for Internally Displaed Persons.