Some notable recent reports of the Congressional Research Service include the following (all pdf).
“Extraterritorial Application of American Criminal Law,” updated August 11, 2006.
“U.S. Nuclear Weapons: Changes in Policy and Force Structure,” updated August 10, 2006.
“NATO in Afghanistan: A Test of the Transatlantic Alliance,” August 22, 2006.
“Radioactive Tank Waste from the Past Production of Nuclear Weapons: Background and Issues for Congress,” updated June 13, 2006.
“Given the number of existential crises we must collectively confront, I have found policy entrepreneurship to be a fruitful avenue towards doing some of that work.”
We sit on the verge of another Presidential election – an opportunity for meaningful, science-based policy innovations that can appeal to lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.
Outdated Bureau of Labor Statistics classifications hampers the federal government’s ability to design and implement effective policies for emerging technologies sectors.
Science funding agencies are biased against risk, making transformative research difficult to fund. Forecast-based approaches to grantmaking could improve funding outcomes for high-risk, high-reward research.