Noteworthy new reports from the Congressional Research Service obtained by Secrecy News include the following (all pdf).
“Terrorism, Miranda, and Related Matters,” May 24, 2010.
“Defense: FY2011 Authorization and Appropriations,” May 25, 2010.
“Quadrennial Defense Review 2010: Overview and Implications for National Security Planning,” May 17, 2010.
“North Korea: U.S. Relations, Nuclear Diplomacy, and Internal Situation,” May 26, 2010.
“Ballistic Missile Defense and Offensive Arms Reductions: A Review of the Historical Record,” May 25, 2010.
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.
This runs counter to public opinion: 4 in 5 of all Americans, across party lines, want to see the government take stronger climate action.