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Op-eds and Articles
Making Airport Screening Smarter
02.08.2010
The following op-ed ran in today’s Cleveland Plain Dealer: One homeland security item that jumps out in the president’s 2011 budget is $700 million to buy an additional 1,000 full-body scanners for airports. The decision underscores the new politics of security in the wake of the attempted Christmas Day bombing of a U.S.-bound Northwest Airlines…
Time: Can High-Speed Rail Succeed in America?
01.29.2010
Mark Reutter in Time: Still, the initial round of $8 billion — which Biden referred to as “seed money” during his remarks in Tampa — is just a tiny percentage of what it would cost to significantly overhaul the country’s rail system. And there are concerns that by spreading the funds to so many different…
Putting High-speed Rail on the Right Track
01.27.2010
The following is an excerpt from Mark Reutter’s op-ed in today’s Tampa Tribune: The Obama administration will soon be announcing which states will be awarded funds from the $8 billion stimulus pot dedicated for high-speed rail (HSR) development. Right now, 259 applications valued at $57 billion are chasing the recovery plan money. The administration’s decision…
Restructuring the State Department From Within
01.24.2010
Matt Armstrong discusses some of the challenges facing the U.S. Department of State in the globalized world and his recent PPI memo, State of State: A Proposal for Reorganization at Foggy Bottom, with Pete Dominick at StandUp! at XM/Sirius radio. [audio: https://www.progressivefix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/armstrong_2010_1_21.mp3]
Memo to Obama — Be the Change
01.21.2010
Mute all those cable TV pundits. The commentator who has the best grasp on what happened in Massachusetts this week is none other than President Barack Obama. It was a change election, he said Wednesday, just like his own. In 2008, Obama won a solid majority by rolling up an eight-point margin with independents. His…
What worries the Pentagon?
01.11.2010
Danger Room Editor and PPI Contributor Noah Shachtman discusses what the Pentagon fears when it comes to cybersecurity and his new report, Spooks in the Machine: How the Pentagon Should Fight Cyber Spies, with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris of The Daily Debrief on Federal News Radio. [audio: https://www.progressivefix.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Spooks in the Machine.mp3]
Jim Arkedis discusses al-Qaeda on Fox News
01.06.2010
PPI National Security Project Director Jim Arkedis discusses al-Qaeda and the threat they pose to the United States on Fox News with Martha MacCallum. Watch the latest news video at <a href=”https://video.foxnews.com/” mce_href=”https://video.foxnews.com/”>video.foxnews.com</a>
Big Bite, Tough Chew
12.21.2009
The following is an excerpt from Will Marshall’s piece in the latest issue of American Interest magazine: How to grade President Obama’s first year in office? As Zhou Enlai replied when asked his opinion of the French Revolution, “It’s too soon to say.” Obama has set in motion a host of bold reforms that could…
Making Our Tax System More Fair
11.09.2009
PPI’s Will Marshall and Mike Derham have a new column on reforming the U.S. tax system in the Washington Times : Americans want a tax system that is fair, simple and capable of raising the revenue we need to pay the nation’s bills. The one we have fails on all three counts. That’s why President Obama…