Noteworthy new publications from the Congressional Research Service include the following.
Kashmir: Background, Recent Developments, and U.S. Policy, August 16, 2019
Global Trends in HIV/AIDS, CRS In Focus, updated August 15, 2019
Retroactive Legislation: A Primer for Congress, CRS In Focus, August 15, 2019
Words Taken Down: Calling Members to Order for Disorderly Language in the House, August 13, 2019
International Discussions Concerning Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems, CRS In Focus, August 16, 2019
This rule gives agencies significantly more authority over certain career policy roles. Whether that authority improves accountability or creates new risks depends almost entirely on how agencies interrupt and apply it.
Our environmental system was built for 1970s-era pollution control, but today it needs stable, integrated, multi-level governance that can make tradeoffs, share and use evidence, and deliver infrastructure while demonstrating that improved trust and participation are essential to future progress.
Durable and legitimate climate action requires a government capable of clearly weighting, explaining, and managing cost tradeoffs to the widest away of audiences, which in turn requires strong technocratic competency.
FAS is launching the Center for Regulatory Ingenuity (CRI) to build a new, transpartisan vision of government that works – that has the capacity to achieve ambitious goals while adeptly responding to people’s basic needs.