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Cities Where Workers Most Use Public Transit

The Huffington Post | Harry Bradford | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Ferry, Jobs Crisis, Bus, Employees, Unemployment, Third Industrial Revolution, Subway, Public Transportation, Slidepollajax, Rail, Ithaca, U.S. Census, Public Transit, Train, Brookings, Business News

In such an urbanized country as the United States, it surprises how few of the nation's workers depend on public transport to make their daily commute...

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Amanda M. Fairbanks

Struggling Grads: Don't Fret, College Ultimately Worth The Cost

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Michael Greenstone, Cost, Expense, Degree, Georgetown, Is College Worth It, Anthony Carnevale, College, Higher Education, Hamilton Project, Stephen Rose, Brookings, College News

NEW YORK -- Creighton Olsen routinely questions the wisdom of his college investment. Specifically, whether his struggle to secure a decent-paying ...

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Lucia Graves

Wide Disparities In Public Transit Access Keep Residents From Jobs, Brookings Study Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Economy, Bruce Katz, Public Transportation, Jobs, Job Growth, Public Transit, Sean Donovan, Ray Lahood, Metro, Brookings, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Seven in 10 working-age metropolitan residents live within three-quarters of a mile of a transit stop. But a new study from the Brooking...

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Lessons Learned From Libya: America Can't Afford Another Autocrat, Neither Can Democracy

Rep. Mike Honda | Posted 06.08.2011

Read More: Rwanda, Yemen, Denis McDonough, President Obama, Vietnam War, Bahrain, Congo, Gadhafi, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Brookings, Darfur, Libya, Peace and Security Taskforce, Qaddafi, Ivory Coast, United Nations, War Powers Act, Gaddafi, World News
Rep. Mike Honda

Consistency provides America with protection by undermining the criticism used to rally recruits in counter-U.S. efforts. An inconsistent track record -- humanitarian intervention in some cases but not others -- gives fodder to our foes.

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Brookings Loses Bid on Orszag but Takes Kagan From Carnegie

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Think Tank All Stars, Council on Foreign Relations, Connie Bruck, Peter Orszag, Robert Kagan, New Yorker, Paul Wolfowitz, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Elliott Abrams, Francis Fukuyama, Haim Saban, Martin Indyk, Brookings, David Frum, Ken Pollack, LeBron James, Politics News
Steve Clemons

Word has just reached us that Robert Kagan -- one of the top tier serious intellectuals among neoconservatives, and currently Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace -- is moving his franchise over to Brookings.

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Charlie Rose Meet Dr. Z

Jordan Dey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Rose, Jordan Dey, Jim Lehrer, Diane Rehm, Csis, Brookings, C-Span, The Asia Foundation, Obama, Afghanistan, Karzai, Rahimi, Atmar, Zakhilwal, Politics News
Jordan Dey

With Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit to Washington now officially confirmed for May, the time is ripe for the American public to meet the other ...

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10 Highly Productive Cities Where The Economy Is Beginning To Turn Around (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gross Metropolitan Productivity, Economic Recession, Economy, Output, Gmp, Economic Recovery, Slidepollajax, Brookings Institution, Recession, Productivity, Brookings, Business News

The unemployment rate in America hasn't budged of late, but the flat jobless rate may not tell the whole story. More than a few smaller, dynamic cit...

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In Ending DADT, America Comes Out of the Closet

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Ben Nelson, Joseph Lieberman, Coming Out, Compromise, Mike Mullen, Congress, LGBT MAP, Don't Tell, John Hutson, Barack Obama, Unit Cohesion, Palm Center, Don't Ask, Unfriendly Fire, John Shalikashvili, Gays in the Military, Nancy Pelosi, Brookings, Research Portal, Carl Levin, West Point, Patrick Murphy, Politics News
Nathaniel Frank

If there's one lesson we should have learned in the debate over gay service, it's that "don't ask, don't tell" was never about military effectiveness. It was a moral and political abuse of power, propped up by a ban on speaking truth to that power.

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Brookings Institution Fellow Responds To Rahm Emanuel Shot

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brookings Institution, Rahm Emanuel Brookings Institution, Rahm Emanuel, Brookings, Politics News

White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel recently took a shot at The Brookings Institution, suggesting it didn't live in the political real world. He p...

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Vested Interests in Afghanistan

Derrick Crowe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: El Salvador, Eric Martin, Brookings, Afghanistan, Rethink Afghanistan, Counterinsurgency, Andrew Exum, Bruce Riedel, World News
Derrick Crowe

Bruce Riedel at Brookings says we have a vested interest in shoring up Karzai's legitimacy. That's not surprising, given that Riedel certainly has such a vested interest.

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Failing the Stimulus

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The New Republic, Brookings, Stimulus, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Politics, Politics News
Harry Moroz

The stimulus package worked to make life better for "victims of the recession." What is disappointing is that the programs politicians had the most say in are the most flawed.

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Not Your Mother's Federalism

Harry Moroz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy, Brookings, Decentralization, Cities, Bruce Katz, Matt Yglesias, Think Progress, Urban Policy Metropolitan Areas, Metropolitan Policy Program, Centralization, Politics News
Harry Moroz

Matt Yglesias at Think Progress has a good synopsis of a new Democracy article that both points out the importance of metropolitan regions to the nati...

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My Conversation with Ken Pollack

Charlie Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brookings, Iran, Iraq, Middle East, Ken Pollack, Exit Strategy, Foreign Policy, Politics News
Charlie Rose

2008-07-24-charliepull.jpgHere is part of my conversation with Ken Pollack, author of A Path Out of the Desert: A Grand Strategy for America in the Middle East.

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