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12 Jan 2021, 11:53 am
These are understood as the expression of compulsory objectives embedded within compliance, surveillance and evaluation protocols (implemented through quantifiable, that is measurable, actions against the ideal expressed in the objective). [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 11:20 am by Tia Sewell
The action reverses a step taken during the Obama administration in 2015, when the U.S. restored diplomatic relations with Cuba after decades of politically and economically isolating the country because of C0ld War tensions. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 10:48 am by kblocher@hslf.org
The actions we take in relation to public policy for animals contribute to the vitality and health of American politics, providing, among other things, an area of concern—animal welfare—that attracts people of all political persuasions. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 10:36 am by Russell Spivak, Benjamin Wittes
Nonetheless, on the biggest question—whether the warrants were, in fact, politically motivated by an inappropriate ambition to get the president—Schiff is arguing (using a lot of bad facts) for what still turns out to be the truth. [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 5:01 am by Tia Sewell
” The move attracted serious backlash from both sides of the political aisle. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 2:29 pm by Tia Sewell
O’Hanlon, director of research in the Brookings Foreign Policy program, will moderate a discussion with Omar Sharifi, senior research fellow and Kabul director at the American Institute of Afghanistan Studies; Omar Sadr, assistant professor of political science at the American University of Afghanistan and Muska Dastageer, lecturer of gender, peace and security at the American University of Afghanistan. [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 1:31 pm
  The principal positive responsibility of organs of power is to preserve to the individual effective spaces for the exercise of civil and political action, including the right to agitate for the transformation or abandonment of specific systems of governance or the authority of people to exercise authority (though even here political systems sometimes reach their limits as the tragic agitation of 6 January 2021 in the United States is now suggesting). [read post]
11 Jan 2021, 8:19 am by Kevin Kaufman
Key Findings Introduction Tax Elements General Design Considerations — Taxing Data Processing — Taxing Financial Transactions — Taxing Traders Conclusion Key Findings: A financial transaction tax (FTT) would raise transaction costs, which would result in a lower trading volume, lower liquidity, potentially increased volatility, and lower price of assets. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 9:03 pm by Ariel Jurow Kleiman
It extended the national eviction moratorium through January 2021 and included a $25 billion assistance fund. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 9:01 pm by Marci A. Hamilton
In fact, religious liberty is often a zero-sum game, with political winners sacrificing others to their faith.The Trump administration has modeled its “civil rights” agenda on politically conservative religious viewpoints while other civil rights have been pushed to the sidelines. [read post]
10 Jan 2021, 2:48 pm by Frank Pasquale
They are the actions a self-protective state would take in the face of dangerous misinformation if it were not bound by unreasonably expansive interpretations of free expression law. [read post]
8 Jan 2021, 5:52 am by Antti Ruokonen
Since the 2011 discovery, a group within the EPA has been trying to update the outdated Lead and Copper Rule of 1991 under intense political pressure. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 8:30 pm by Jim Sedor
Although the companies took their strongest enforcement actions ever, including temporary locks on Trump’s Twitter and Facebook accounts, critics say the companies’ pattern of tentative half-measures helped precipitate a crisis. [read post]
7 Jan 2021, 2:47 pm by Kevin LaCroix
” The divided vote, which was along political party affiliation, revealed a philosophical division in thinking about access to private markets. [read post]
6 Jan 2021, 8:00 pm
”When will our political leaders finally tire of kicking the can down the road, and are ready to take action, maybe, just maybe, they’ll get to implementing longer-term, and larger-scale corrective measures. [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 1:29 pm by Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
Andrea Bartoletti, who holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, will discuss how encirclement—a geographic variable that occurs when one country faces the threat of one or two great powers on two different borders—triggers a double security dilemma and ultimately resulted in the initiation of World War I. [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 1:26 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  There were 324 federal court securities class action lawsuits filed in 2020, representing just under a 20% decline from the 402 federal securities class action lawsuits in 2019. [read post]
4 Jan 2021, 12:25 pm by Matt Gluck, Tia Sewell
This seizure comes as Iran demands that South Korea release $7 billion in Iranian funds frozen in South Korean banks due to U.S. sanctions. [read post]