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Brookings Today, 4/2/14

Fred Dews
Fred Dews Managing Editor, New Digital Products - Office of Communications

April 2, 2014

A roundup of some of the content published today by Brookings.

  • Russia, arms control, and Obama. Steven Pifer looks at how U.S.-Russia relations complicate President Obama’s nuclear arms legacy.
  • The Supreme Court’s McCutcheon decision. Thomas Mann says that today’s decision by the Supreme Court in McCutcheon v. FEC is “worse than it looks.”
  • Decide on liquefied natural gas exports. Charles Ebinger and Tim Boersma argue that it is time for a decision on unrestricted LNG exports.
  • Dubious pre-K science. Russ Whitehurst examines the data on Georgia’s universal pre-K programs on child outcomes, which President Obama has praised. 
  • Is an innovative bureaucracy possible? John Hudak reviews a Partnership for Public Service study that says an “innovative, streamlined, modern competitive, and efficient” bureaucracy “is well within reach.”
  • Metro Monitor. Alec Friedhoff and Siddharth Kulkarni present updated economic performance rankings of the 100 largest U.S. metro areas.

Mingwei Ma contributed to this post.