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The State of the Union 2010


Reuters/POOL New - U.S. President Barack Obama makes a point during his first State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Save to My Portfolio President Obama’s State of the Union Address: In Defense of His Administration

William A. Galston, January 27, 2010

During his first State of the Union address, President Obama delivered a confident defense of his administration’s first year, writes William Galston. The president laid out an agenda that he clearly hopes will unify his party and rally public support. While accepting responsibility for not explaining health reform and other parts of his program more clearly, he did not apologize for the ambitious scope of his efforts and instead, justified it as a long overdue response to decades of gridlock and evasion, asserts Galston. Read More

The Presidency, U.S. Politics, Governance

Guantánamo


Reuters/POOL New - Guantanamo guard stands inside a doorway at Camp 6 detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base.

Save to My Portfolio The Emerging Law of Detention: The Guantánamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking

Benjamin Wittes, Robert M. Chesney and Rabea Benhalim, January 22, 2010

On January 22, 2009, President Obama set a one-year deadline for closing the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. With the facility still open and the president’s decision not to seek additional legislative authority for detentions there—combined with Congress’s lack of interest in the task—judges must write the rules governing military detention of terrorist suspects, write Benjamin Wittes, Robert Chesney and Rabea Benhalim. Read More

Legal Architecture for the War on Terror, Guantánamo, Terrorism, Courts, Judges

Innovation


Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch - Visitors watch a presentation about cloud computing at the IBM booth at the CeBIT computer fair in Hanover.

Save to My Portfolio Cloud Computing for Business and Society

Wednesday, January 20, 2010
9:00 AM to 11:00 AM
Washington, DC

Cloud computing – defined as computing delivered as a service over the Internet – has the potential to offer governments, enterprises and individuals greater choice and flexibility while spurring significant efficiency gains and lower IT costs, and creating incentives and online platforms for innovation. On January 20, Brookings hosted a policy forum on this exciting new technology trend. Read More

Information Technology, Innovation, Business, Technology

SPOTLIGHT: Campaign Finance

Save to My Portfolio Reform in an Age of Networked Campaigns

Anthony Corrado, Thomas E. Mann, Norman J. Ornstein and Michael J. Malbin, January 14, 2010

A result of a joint project of the Campaign Finance Institute, American Enterprise Institute and the Brookings Institution, “Reform in an Age of Networked Campaigns” is a thoughtful and thoroughly researched report on how we can effectively reform campaign finance policies. Relying on lessons from the record-shattering 2008 elections and the rise of Internet campaigning, this report offers a new vision of how campaign finance and communications policy can help further democracy through broader participation. Read More

Campaign Finance, Elections, U.S. Congress, Federal Election Commission

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Legal Architecture for the War on Terror The Courts' Shifting Rules on Guantánamo Detainees

Robert M. Chesney, Benjamin Wittes, February 05, 2010

Politics Congress, Partisanship and Paralysis

Thomas E. Mann, February 03, 2010

Education Expanding Choice in Elementary and Secondary Education

Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst, Tom Loveless, Jay Greene, W. Bentley MacLeod , Thomas Nechyba , Paul Peterson, Meredith Rosenthal , Michelle Croft, February 02, 2010

Education Community Colleges: America's Forgotten Institutions of Higher Education

Darrell M. West, February 01, 2010

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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.

ExpertRichard C. Bush III

Richard Bush is the director of the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies. His public service career spans Congress, the intelligence community and the U.S. State Department. He currently focuses on China-Taiwan and U.S.-China relations, the Korean peninsula and Japan’s security.

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.

Policy CenterUrban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

The Tax Policy Center, a joint venture of the Urban Institute and Brookings Institution, is comprised of nationally recognized experts in tax, budget and social policy who have served at the highest levels of government.

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.

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.

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 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.

Policy CenterCenter for Northeast Asian Policy Studies

CNAPS conducts research, analysis, and outreach designed to enhance policy development and understanding on the pressing political, economic, and security issues facing Northeast Asia.

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.

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.

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.

Research ProjectArms Control Initiative

Few problems pose greater challenges to U.S. national security than controlling, reducing and countering the proliferation of nuclear arms. The Brookings Arms Control Initiative brings the Institution’s multidisciplinary strengths to bear on the critical challenges of arms control and non-proliferation.

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.

Research ProjectAfrica Growth Initiative

The Africa Growth Initiative conducts high-quality policy research and analysis focused on attaining sustainable economic development and prosperity in Africa, while amplifying the voice of African researchers in policy-making and planning.

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.