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Brookings Today, 5/1/14

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

May 1, 2014

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

  • Crime and incarceration. Melissa Kearney and Ben Harris share insights of recent trends on crime and incarceration in the United States.
  • Supreme Court and air pollution. Philip Wallach discusses the Supreme Court ruling on the EPA’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule.
  • Human rights in Iran. Suzanne Maloney examines President Rouhani’s hedge on domestic human rights.
  • Medical devices and patient safety. Gregory Daniel, Siromi Gardina and Craig Streit emphasize the importance of building a national surveillance system for implantable medical devices.
  • Bernanke reflects on the financial crisis. Parinitha Sastry and David Wessel highlight some of former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s reflections on the financial crisis.

Mingwei Ma contributed to this post.

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