Intercontinental ballistic missiles are massively expensive, environmentally hazardous, and dubiously successful as a deterrent—even Donald Trump recognizes the madness of modernizing strategic nuclear weapons.
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The Playbook for Improving the Secret Service Has Been Around Since 2015
That’s when a congressional committee issued a 435-page analysis of its failings, whose key recommendations have yet to be implemented.
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The Trump Administration’s Plan to Seize Control of Spending
Trump and his advisers want to bring back impoundment, enabling them to cancel spending appropriated by Congress.
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Nine Solitary Studies
Over 11,000 people incarcerated at the Federal Bureau of Prisons spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement. The BOP wants to keep examining the issue.
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Big Tech Has Penetrated the GAO
How the industry is positioned to shape the debate over U.S. industrial policy, and generally lobby for its interests, from within the ‘congressional watchdog’ agency