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Recycling wastewater at the Savannah River Site

Never Underestimate the Power of a Small Group of Committed People

by Robert Alvarez | Dec 18, 2023 | Environment

As a citizen activist in the late 1970s and 1980s working at the Environmental Policy Institute, Robert Alvarez was among the first to document the extreme hazards of managing high concentrations of nuclear waste derived from nuclear weapons production, and as a senior appointee at the Department of Energy, he worked to prevent the department’s […]

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Clean up at the Savannah River Site

Shuttering the Nuclear Weapons Sites: There’s Gold in Those Warheads but the Scrap Metal is Radioactive

by Robert Alvarez | Dec 18, 2023 | Environment

As one of my first tasks early in the first Clinton Administration as the newly appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, I conducted the first (and only) asset inventory of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In carrying it out, we departed from the usual reliance on DOE contractors, and established a team of federal […]

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The National Congress, Brasilia, Brazil

Canberra, Brasilia, and Abuja Have Taxation and Representation

by Robert Rudney | Dec 18, 2023 | Politics

What do Canberra (Australia), Brasilia (Brazil), and Abuja (Nigeria) have in common with Washington, DC?  Like Washington, they are all planned capital cities.  Like Washington, all three cities were results of political compromises. Unlike Washington, their residents have the right to elect voting representatives in their national congresses. The product of a North-South bargain, Washington, […]

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Street signs on a pole stating Church and State.

Dark Money Vouchers Are Having a Moment

by Josh Cowen | Dec 8, 2023 | Education

Over the past 12 months, the decades-long push to divert tax dollars toward religious education has reached new heights. As proclaimed by EdChoice—the advocacy group devoted to school vouchers—2023 has been the year these schemes reached “escape velocity.” In strictly legislative terms, seven states passed new voucher systems, and ten more expanded existing versions. Ten […]

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Flag of the Republic of China or Taiwan on a processor, CPU Central processing Unit or GPU microchip on a motherboard.

The Wide Angle: Reality in Taiwan Differs from Perception in DC

by Dave Troy | Nov 9, 2023 | Foreign Policy, The Wide Angle

It has become an article of faith in Washington circles that conflict between China and Taiwan is a palpably real near-term concern. Most recently this idea has been given new life because funding for Taiwan is baked into the Biden administration’s massive $105 billion aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan — even though the […]

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