DREAM Deferred
Failure to pass the DREAM Act highlights partisan gridlock
The intellectual underpinnings of President Obama’s financial regulation reform. With audacity and flourish, Time magazine on February 15th, 1999 dubbed the trio of Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, and Lawrence Summers, “The Committee to Save the World.” Today, that cover reads like a joke – instead of saving the world, this trio, more than any other, helped to create the conditions [...]
States gaining voice on drug laws When Richard Nixon declared a “War on Drugs” in June 1971, he had little idea that he was also engaging Washington in a war with the states. In the decades since, the federal government has frequently asserted its primacy over the states on drug laws, despite the opposition of states-rights proponents. California began [...]