Transportation and the Economy
Transportation Secretary Peters spoke about the nation’s infrastructure and challenges faced by national, state and local authorities. She also outlined some solutions involving new technolo…
133 viewsTransportation Secretary Peters spoke about the nation’s infrastructure and challenges faced by national, state and local authorities. She also outlined some solutions involving new technolo…
133 viewsParticipants talked about the impact of public discourse on politics, the lack of civil dialogue in various forums, and leadership challenges of bringing civil problem solving to tackle the …
413 viewsRepresentative Emanuel spoke about current issues in politics and government. He was very critical of the Bush administration for the dismissals of several U.S. attorneys and political decis…
45 viewsMr. Taylor moderated a panel on the use of the death penalty. Among the issues addressed were its ability to deter crime, questions of fair administration, the potential impact of several de…
265 viewsStuart Taylor moderated a panel discussion on ways in which the 2006 election results will be affected by congressional redistricting. Panel members explained that the ‘gerrymandering’ of so…
231 viewsModerated by Mr. Taylor, the panelists talked about the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings on the nomination of John Roberts to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Other topics incl…
49 viewsA panel from The Judicial Issues Forum of the Brookings Governance Studies Program talked about the situation in Sudan, international calls for Sudanese accountability in cases of genocide, …
172 viewsFred Siegel talked about his book, The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America’s Big Cities, in which he examined the implications of misguided local and fed…
170 viewsA panel of political scientists and scholars talked about the foreign policy of the Clinton administration in a roundtable discussion during the Convention of American Political Scientists. …
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