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U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress
U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress Ronald O'Rourke Specialist in Naval Affairs Michael Moodie Assistant Director and Senior Specialist in Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Updated February 24, 2020 Congressional Research Service 7-.... www.crs.gov R44891 U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress Summary The U.S. role in the world refers to the overall character, purpose, or direction of U.S. participation in international affairs and the country’s overall relationship to the rest of the world. The U.S. role in the world can be viewed as establishing the overall context or framework for U.S. policymakers for developing, implementing, and measuring the success of U.S. policies and actions on specific international issues, and for foreign countries or other observers for interpreting and understanding U.S. actions on the world stage. While descriptions of the U.S. role in the world since the end of World War II vary in their specifics, it can be described in general terms as consisting of four key elements: global leadership; defense and promotion of the liberal international order; defense and promotion of freedom, democracy, and human rights; and prevention of the emergence of regional hegemons in Eurasia. The issue for Congress is whether the U.S. role in the world is changing, and if so, what implications this might have for the United States and the world. A change in the U.S. role could have significant and even profound effects on U.S. security, freedom, and prosperity. It could significantly affect U.S. -
U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress
U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress Ronald O'Rourke Specialist in Naval Affairs Michael Moodie Assistant Director and Senior Specialist in Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Updated November 18, 2019 Congressional Research Service 7-.... www.crs.gov R44891 U.S. Role in the World: Background and Issues for Congress Summary The U.S. role in the world refers to the overall character, purpose, or direction of U.S. participation in international affairs and the country’s overall relationship to the rest of the world. The U.S. role in the world can be viewed as establishing the overall context or framework for U.S. policymakers for developing, implementing, and measuring the success of U.S. policies and actions on specific international issues, and for foreign countries or other observers for interpreting and understanding U.S. actions on the world stage. While descriptions of the U.S. role in the world since the end of World War II vary in their specifics, it can be described in general terms as consisting of four key elements: global leadership; defense and promotion of the liberal international order; defense and promotion of freedom, democracy, and human rights; and prevention of the emergence of regional hegemons in Eurasia. The issue for Congress is whether the U.S. role in the world is changing, and if so, what implications this might have for the United States and the world. A change in the U.S. role could have significant and even profound effects on U.S. security, freedom, and prosperity. It could significantly affect U.S. -
A Bipartisan Blueprint
COMMISSION ON POLITICAL REFORM Governing in a Polarized America: A Bipartisan Blueprint to Strengthen our Democracy This report is the product of the BPC Commission on Political Reform with participants of diverse expertise and affiliations, addressing many complex and contentious topics. It is inevitable that arriving at a consensus document in these circumstances entailed compromises. Accordingly, it should not be assumed that every member is entirely satisfied with every formulation in this document, or even that all participants would agree with any given recommendation if it were taken in isolation. Rather, this group reached consensus on these recommendations as a package. The findings and recommendations expressed herein are solely those of the commission and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of the Bipartisan Policy Center, its founders, or its Board of Directors. Governing in a Polarized America: A Bipartisan Blueprint to Strengthen our Democracy 1 BPC Commission on Political Reform CO-CHAIRS Tom Daschle Dirk Kempthorne Olympia Snowe Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Former Governor of Idaho, U.S. Former U.S. Senator (D-SD); Co-founder, BPC Secretary of the Interior, and U.S. (R-ME); Senior Fellow, BPC Senator (R-ID); President and CEO, Dan Glickman American Council of Life Insurers Former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and U.S. Representative (D-KS); Trent Lott Senior Fellow, BPC Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader (R-MS); Senior Fellow, BPC COMMISSIONERS Hope Andrade Heather Gerken David McIntosh Former Texas Secretary of State (R) J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law, Yale Former U.S. Representative (R-IN); Law School Partner, Mayer Brown LLP Molly Barker Founder, Girls on the Run Michael Gerson Eric L. -
Global Events
GLOBAL EVENTS Education • Professional Leverage • Networking • Philanthropy Industry Icons Sep 18, 2013 New York: A Conversation With Adena T. Friedman, Chief Financial Officer, The Carlyle Group Adena Friedman, Chief Financial Officer, The Carlyle Group Bill Stone, Founder and CEO, Moderator, SS&C Technologies Jun 3, 2013 Washington: Conversation with David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder, The Carlyle Group David M. Rubenstein, Co-Founder, The Carlyle Group Jeffrey R. Houle, Moderator, Partner, DLA Piper Apr 3, 2013 New York: Fireside Chat with Saba Capital's Boaz Weinstein Boaz Weinstein, Founder & CIO, Saba Capital Stephanie Ruhle, Moderator, Anchor, Bloomberg Oct 30, 2012 Newport Beach: A Conversation with Dr. Mohamed El-Erian of PIMCO: Investing in a Zero-Interest Rate Environment Dr. Mohamed El-Erian, Chief Executive Officer and Co-CIO, PIMCO Lupin Rahman, Moderator, Executive Vice President, PIMCO Marc Seidner, Managing Director and Generalist Portfolio Manager, PIMCO Qi Wang, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, PIMCO Oct 16, 2012 New York: Know Yourself and Your Decision-Making Process: A Conversation with Nobel Laureate Dr. Daniel Kahneman Dr. Daniel Kahneman, Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and Professor of Public Affairs Emeritus, Princeton University Jason Zweig, Moderator, Columnist, Wall Street Journal Sep 19, 2012 New York: Conversation with Eric E. Schmidt, Executive Chairman of Google Eric E. Schmidt, Executive Chairman, Google Apr 30, 2012 New York: An Armchair Discussion with John J. Mack on Leadership John J. Mack, former Chairman and CEO, Morgan Stanley Joanne Pace, Moderator, former Chief Operating Officer, Morgan Stanley Investment Management Jan 25, 2012 Geneva: Philippe Jabre Talks Markets Philippe Jabre, Chief Investment Officer, Jabre Capital Partners Dec 8, 2011 Los Angeles: Dinner Event with Howard Marks, Chairman, Oaktree Capital Oct 26, 2011 Los Angeles: Renee Haugerud, Founder, CIO & Managing Principal, Galtere, Ltd. -
WHY COMPETITION in the POLITICS INDUSTRY IS FAILING AMERICA a Strategy for Reinvigorating Our Democracy
SEPTEMBER 2017 WHY COMPETITION IN THE POLITICS INDUSTRY IS FAILING AMERICA A strategy for reinvigorating our democracy Katherine M. Gehl and Michael E. Porter ABOUT THE AUTHORS Katherine M. Gehl, a business leader and former CEO with experience in government, began, in the last decade, to participate actively in politics—first in traditional partisan politics. As she deepened her understanding of how politics actually worked—and didn’t work—for the public interest, she realized that even the best candidates and elected officials were severely limited by a dysfunctional system, and that the political system was the single greatest challenge facing our country. She turned her focus to political system reform and innovation and has made this her mission. Michael E. Porter, an expert on competition and strategy in industries and nations, encountered politics in trying to advise governments and advocate sensible and proven reforms. As co-chair of the multiyear, non-partisan U.S. Competitiveness Project at Harvard Business School over the past five years, it became clear to him that the political system was actually the major constraint in America’s inability to restore economic prosperity and address many of the other problems our nation faces. Working with Katherine to understand the root causes of the failure of political competition, and what to do about it, has become an obsession. DISCLOSURE This work was funded by Harvard Business School, including the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness and the Division of Research and Faculty Development. No external funding was received. Katherine and Michael are both involved in supporting the work they advocate in this report. -
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0111001001101011 01THE00101010100 0111001001101001 010PSYHOLOGY0111 011100OF01011100 010010010011010 0110011SILION011 01VALLEY01101001 ETHICAL THREATS AND EMOTIONAL UNINTELLIGENCE 01001001001110IN THE TECH INDUSTRY 10 0100100100KATY COOK 110110 0110011011100011 The Psychology of Silicon Valley “As someone who has studied the impact of technology since the early 1980s I am appalled at how psychological principles are being used as part of the busi- ness model of many tech companies. More and more often I see behaviorism at work in attempting to lure brains to a site or app and to keep them coming back day after day. This book exposes these practices and offers readers a glimpse behind the “emotional scenes” as tech companies come out psychologically fir- ing at their consumers. Unless these practices are exposed and made public, tech companies will continue to shape our brains and not in a good way.” —Larry D. Rosen, Professor Emeritus of Psychology, author of 7 books including The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High Tech World “The Psychology of Silicon Valley is a remarkable story of an industry’s shift from idealism to narcissism and even sociopathy. But deep cracks are showing in the Valley’s mantra of ‘we know better than you.’ Katy Cook’s engaging read has a message that needs to be heard now.” —Richard Freed, author of Wired Child “A welcome journey through the mind of the world’s most influential industry at a time when understanding Silicon Valley’s motivations, myths, and ethics are vitally important.” —Scott Galloway, Professor of Marketing, NYU and author of The Algebra of Happiness and The Four Katy Cook The Psychology of Silicon Valley Ethical Threats and Emotional Unintelligence in the Tech Industry Katy Cook Centre for Technology Awareness London, UK ISBN 978-3-030-27363-7 ISBN 978-3-030-27364-4 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27364-4 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020 This book is an open access publication. -
Bipartisan Rx for America's Health Care
IDEAS ACTION RESULTS Bipartisan Rx for America’s Health Care A PRACTICAL PATH TO REFORM February 2020 FUTURE Tom Daschle Bill Frist, M.D. O F H E A LT H CO-CHAIR CO-CHAIR Former Senate Majority Leader Former Senate Majority Leader CA R E Co-Founder, BPC Senior Fellow, BPC LEADERS Andy Slavitt Gail Wilensky, Ph.D. CO-CHAIR CO-CHAIR Senior Advisor, BPC Senior Fellow, Project Hope Former Acting Administrator, Former Administrator, Health Care Centers for Medicare and Financing Administration (Now CMS) Medicaid Services (CMS) Chris Jennings Sheila Burke Fellow, BPC Fellow, BPC Founder and President, Strategic Advisor, Baker Donelson Jennings Policy Strategies James Capretta Cindy Mann Resident Fellow, Milton Partner, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP Friedman Chair, Former Director, Center for American Enterprise Institute Medicaid and CHIP Services Avik Roy Senior Advisor, BPC Co-Founder and President, The Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity I N Alice M. Rivlin As a member of the Future of Health Former Senior Fellow, Center for Health Care initiative, Alice was a passionate M E M O R I A M Policy, The Brookings Institution health care policy leader who advocated Former Director, Congressional for moving America’s health care Budget Office delivery system toward high-quality, Former Director, White House Office more cost-effective delivery of care. She of Management and Budget strongly supported BPC’s belief that Former Vice-Chair, Federal Reserve nothing can be accomplished without negotiation and compromise—between both houses of Congress, across party lines, and with the president. BPC is very grateful for her contributions to this report before her death. -
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Paulson Said to Explore Puerto Rico as Home With Low Tax - Bloomberg Page 1 of 4 Paulson Said to Explore Puerto Rico as Home With Low Tax By Katherine Burton, Stephanie Ruhle and Zachary R. Mider - Mar 11, 2013 John Paulson, a lifelong New Yorker, is exploring a move to Puerto Rico, where a new law would eliminate taxes on gains from the $9.5 billion he has invested in his own hedge funds, according to four people who have spoken to him about a possible relocation. Ten wealthy Americans have already taken advantage of the year-old Puerto Rican law that lets new residents pay no local or U.S. federal taxes on capital gains, according to Alberto Baco Bague, Secretary of Economic Development and Commerce of Puerto Rico. The marginal tax rate for affluent New Yorkers can exceed 50 percent on ordinary income. Paulson, 57, recently looked at real estate in the exclusive Condado neighborhood of San Juan, where an 8,379- square-foot penthouse , complete with six underground parking spaces, lists for $5 million. The area is home to St. John’s School, a private English-language academy where he and his wife could send their two children, said the people, who asked not to be named because the discussions were private. Paulson’s firm declined to comment on his personal plans. “While we have looked at real estate investments in Puerto Rico, we have not made any investments, ” Paulson & Co. said in a statement. The firm is one of the largest holders of Popular Inc., which owns the biggest lender in Puerto Rico, and it runs a $300 million real estate fund that has properties in Florida , Nevada , Arizona , California , Colorado and Hawaii . -
Targeted Sampling from Massive Block Model Graphs with Personalized Pagerank∗
Targeted sampling from massive block model graphs with personalized PageRank∗ Fan Chen1, Yini Zhang2, and Karl Rohe1 1Department of Statistics 2School of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA Abstract This paper provides statistical theory and intuition for Personalized PageRank (PPR), a popular technique that samples a small community from a massive network. We study a setting where the entire network is expensive to thoroughly obtain or maintain, but we can start from a seed node of interest and \crawl" the network to find other nodes through their connections. By crawling the graph in a designed way, the PPR vector can be approximated without querying the entire massive graph, making it an alternative to snowball sampling. Using the degree-corrected stochastic block model, we study whether the PPR vector can select nodes that belong to the same block as the seed node. We provide a simple and interpretable form for the PPR vector, highlighting its biases towards high degree nodes outside of the target block. We examine a simple adjustment based on node degrees and establish consistency results for PPR clustering that allows for directed graphs. These results are enabled by recent technical advances showing the element-wise convergence of eigenvectors. We illustrate the method with the massive Twitter friendship graph, which we crawl using the Twitter API. We find that (i) the adjusted and unadjusted PPR techniques are complementary approaches, where the adjustment makes the results particularly localized around the seed node and (ii) the bias adjustment greatly benefits from degree regularization. Keywords Community detection; Degree-corrected stochastic block model; Local clustering; Network sampling; Personalized PageRank arXiv:1910.12937v2 [cs.SI] 1 Jul 2020 1 Introduction Much of the literature on graph sampling has treated the entire graph, or all of the people in it, as the target population. -
This Transcript Was Exported on Mar 05, 2020 - View Latest Version Here
This transcript was exported on Mar 05, 2020 - view latest version here. Paul: Ladies and gentlemen, angry Americans around the country, around the world, welcome to a very special episode. We pulled this out of the hat. We're moving and shaking and we are inside the powerful machine that is NBC News. Stephanie Ruhle: 30 Rock. Paul: 30 Rock. We are not in the car club. We are no longer in Hollywood and with us, I am very, very happy to say, the great and powerful Stephanie Ruhle. Stephanie Ruhle: Great to be here. I appreciate this opportunity. Paul: I appreciate you coming on, especially right now. Can we talk about before we got here, we just did a count down. Stephanie Ruhle: So we did. I've only been in TV the last few years. I was in investment banking for 14 years and then I moved in to television about eight years ago. And the first shoot I ever went on, the first field shoot, the camera guy, just as we started it, clapped his hands and said, "Enjoy the ride." Right when you do shoot, they clap for sound. Clap, enjoy the ride. So I had no experience in television and I thought that was the news equivalent of action. So everywhere I went, I would, every time I went anywhere, they'd be like, "You're ready?" And would be like, they'd be, "Give us a clap," and every time I clap, enjoy the ride. Stephanie Ruhle: And finally, two years later, someone's like, "Is that your signature?" And I'm like, "I don't know what you mean." And they're like, "What's this enjoy the ride?" I'm like, "Well, it's like action. -
Nbc News to Offer Signature Slate of Premiere Programming for 2019 Texas Tribune Festival in Austin's Historic Paramount Theatre
CONTACT: Natalie Choate The Texas Tribune [email protected] 512-716-8640 NBC NEWS TO OFFER SIGNATURE SLATE OF PREMIERE PROGRAMMING FOR 2019 TEXAS TRIBUNE FESTIVAL IN AUSTIN'S HISTORIC PARAMOUNT THEATRE NBC NEWS TO MODERATE LIVE CONVERSATIONS, SEPT. 26 - 28 WITH SEN. MICHAEL BENNET, FORMER SEC. JULIÁN CASTRO, SEN. TED CRUZ, SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR, FORMER REP. BETO O’ROURKE, MAYOR PETE BUTTIGIEG AND MORE AT TRIBFEST NBC NEWS AND TEXAS TRIBUNE RENEW PARTNERSHIP FOR 2019 TEXAS TRIBUNE FESTIVAL AUSTIN, TEXAS (EMBARGOED UNTIL 6 A.M. ON AUG. 30, 2019) – NBC News, together with The Texas Tribune, will bring national political correspondents and analysts from NBC News and MSNBC along with leading presidential candidates and political figures to the 2019 Texas Tribune Festival for a full day of political conversation on Saturday, Sept. 28, at the Paramount Theatre and throughout the three-day festival. For the second year in a row, NBC News and MSNBC will return to the festival as media partners and will bring the network’s roster of national political anchors, correspondents and analysts to its signature stages, including Geoff Bennett, Garrett Haake, Chris Hayes, Steve Kornacki, Lawrence O’Donnell, Stephanie Ruhle, Katy Tur and more. Discussions from inside the Paramount Theatre and other select Texas Tribune Festival programming will be streamed live exclusively at NBCNews.com and NBC News NOW. On Saturday, Sept. 28, badgeholders can look forward to a suite of conversations on the NBC News stage: ● 8:30 a.m. CST – Democratic presidential candidate former Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-Texas) in conversation with NBC News Correspondent Garrett Haake ● 10:15 a.m. -
Housing America's Future: New Directions for National Policy
Housing America’s Future: New Directions for National Policy Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center Housing Commission About the Housing Commission • Created by the Bipartisan Policy Center, a non-profit organization founded in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole and George Mitchell • Launched in October 2011 with four co-chairs: - Christopher S. “Kit Bond – Former U.S. Senator; Former Governor of Missouri - Henry Cisneros – Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development - Mel Martinez – Former U.S. Senator; Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development - George J. Mitchell – Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader • Composed of 21 members drawn from diverse political and professional backgrounds • Report, Housing America’s Future: New Directions for National Policy, issued February 25, 2013 - 2 - Housing Commission Principles • A healthy, stable housing market is essential for a strong economy and a competitive America. • The nation’s housing finance system should promote the uninterrupted availability of affordable housing credit and investment capital while protecting American taxpayers. • The United States should reaffirm a commitment to providing a decent home and a suitable living environment for every American family. • The primary focus of federal housing policy should be to help those most in need. • Federal policy should strike an appropriate balance between homeownership and rental subsidies. - 3 - Principal Areas of Recommendations • The Continuing Value