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The parallel with 1921 to get America

  The parallel with 1921 to get America  headed in the right direction rests in renovating and modernizing infrastructure for the 21st century, creating a new boom and new economic opportunities to neutralize this dissatisfaction. Infrastructure is broadly defined and not limited to highways, bridges, airports, water, fuel and electrical grids to broadband, education, supply chain reliability, quantum computing, biogenetics, health care and fusion. Infrastructure, writ large, offers the same potential for explosive growth as automobiles did a century ago.   If wisely mobilized, literally tons of money is available to propel this growth — nearly $7 trillion  from the American Rescue Plan; the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act; the Chips and Science Act; the Inflation Reduction Act and the omnibus laws. Not all will go to infrastructure. But a significant amount will. Yet, how oversight, management and coordin...
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Appeals Court Ruling On Domestic Violence Gun Law Draws Concerns

  Many of the examples of policy drift Basrur cites stem from the demands faced by messy coalition governments dealing with fractious allies. By contrast, Modi and the BJP now enjoy a comfortable majority in India’s Parliament. But the current government’s foreign-policy decision-making has demonstrated similar policy drift, from its lackadaisical response to the compelling security threat from China on the border to its inability to formulate a clear-cut role for itself within the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue alongside Australia, Japan, and the United States. Unless India’s policymakers forthrightly tackle long-standing structural bottlenecks through bureaucratic reforms, improve policy coordination on national issues across state and central governments, and tackle the question of overlapping organizational jurisdictions, policy drift will continue to thwart India’s aspirations as a global leader. SACRAMENTO — There's been a fundamental shift in the approach to domestic violen...
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