Opinion

How Congress fills in the blanks of new federal spending could have a profound effect on state and local capital spending for years to come. 

The key is to deploy, deploy, deploy existing clean, renewable, safe technologies as fast as possible.

This focus on tools to consolidate, use and analyze all the department’s information will support responses to future crises.

Historically, on important matters of safety and national security, our tradition has been to set aside partisan fighting and meet at the water’s edge.

Today, our nation’s greatest resource is the American people. But they are struggling to keep pace in a rapidly changing world. We can fix that. 

It is important to continue our efforts to increase mental health services and access for all Americans, but it is especially important to ensure our nation’s children are among the first in line.

To be fully successful, the administration’s community college agenda must include automobile access and affordability.

The Work+ model not only makes “free college” for the student a reality – it launches graduates into the dynamic workforce with a four-year résumé, sought-after real-world experience and leadership acumen.

It is past time to redefine the FDA’s mission, shorten the duration of pharmaceutical patents, reduce the burdens of patent thickets and patent trolls, allow international reciprocity in new drug approvals and offer more prizes in place of patents.

With a small tweak, “use it or lose it” can work in favor of more disadvantaged communities, rather than against them.

Progressives within the Democratic party have not shied away from expressing their disagreement over America’s quiescent policy on the Israel-Palestine conflict.

As the U.S. electorate ages, the sociopolitical mood of the country is expected to become more risk-averse, have shorter time horizons and less willing to make long-term investments.

Biden’s plan may be a first step towards getting the American business community used to the federal government providing other long-term benefits.

The experience of the past year shows that unemployment claims drop drastically when the unemployed believe compensation is ending.

As Americans get set to pull all troops from Afghanistan by early September, preserving the gains made in women’s rights over the past two decades must be a key focus of the international community and civil society.

His predecessor’s strategic incoherence has made it difficult for Biden to restore America’s influence on both sides.

Gas lines. Dry tanks. This is something that hasn’t happened since the Carter administration.

Should Trump decide to run again, Republican voters have to decide whether the good things the former president accomplished outweigh the big mistakes that he made during his tenure.

The Senate should refuse to confirm Chris Magnus, Ed Gonzalez and Ur Jaddou, whose track records make them unacceptable.

For Venezuelan TPS recipients as well as the more than 400,000 other TPS recipients — from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nepal, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Syria and Yemen — Senate Republicans should cosponsor the SECURE Act.

The preservation of popular constitutional government depends not on merely exposing Trump’s “big lie” but on stopping Republican voter suppression across the land.

CRS has played a role in resolving many conflicts, but its staff is down to a historic low of 26.

Red flag laws — like any particular gun regulation — have limitations. We can do better to supplement and improve them.

Maryland lawmakers passed a police reform bill that has gone too far.

We need to equip teachers to support children and teens in applying critical thinking against disinformation online.

The complexity of our energy system should not be oversimplified, and with an eye towards the future, we can’t forget that it needs to be built on the foundation of a functioning and reliable grid today.

We have not devoted enough resources to allow the experts to address what is the most severe problem we face as a country and a world.

U.S. efforts thus far to make nation-states bear responsibility for cyber crime emanating from their borders have failed.

Rhe Justice in Policing Act does not go far enough.

The court just accepted a case that could be lethal to Roe — and Biden has a familiar back-up plan.