The Biden administration has a unique opportunity to champion liberal democracy, but there are several pressing obstacles that it must overcome, @Kemal_Dervis says. https://t.co/VFAI33VpCc
— Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) January 22, 2021
As Biden administration officials step into their new roles, @tcwittes offers some useful advice from her time in public service. https://t.co/V3Vj6EEk0a
— Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) January 21, 2021
“A new beginning takes more than rhetoric and promises, of course. It will require governing with full awareness of our differences—and with the fact that we are closely as well as deeply divided,” writes @BillGalston. https://t.co/bfryHNQYCJ
— Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) January 21, 2021
The most important parts of Biden’s inauguration speech will likely be his pledges to help Americans traumatized by disease, economic despair, and insurrection. https://t.co/Ql3F0qT0bb
— Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) January 20, 2021
Presidential historian @ekamarck is the author of “Why Presidents Fail” — and she has a lot to say about Donald Trump.
She talks to @joegarofoli about what she expects from President Joe Biden.
Listen 🎧:https://t.co/dQbRW7N2rc
— San Francisco Chronicle (@sfchronicle) January 20, 2021
What will the @JoeBiden presidency focus on at home and abroad? We got the view of @thomaswright08 of the @BrookingsInst https://t.co/E8b0DQQGAl
— Morning Ireland (@morningireland) January 21, 2021
As Joe Biden takes charge as president, @tanvi_madan explores the likely future direction of U.S.-India relations in a @business podcast. Listen: https://t.co/nSKGM8YQCa
— Brookings FP (@BrookingsFP) January 19, 2021
New episode of Dollar & Sense podcast: @davidrdollar interviews @ConStelz on how the U.S. can improve relations with its European allies and develop a coordinated U.S.-EU approach to China https://t.co/mMO27xnr8L
— Brookings Podcasts (@policypodcasts) January 19, 2021
Integrating an aggressive tech agenda into the suite of other priorities for the Biden administration can be transformative for the country. https://t.co/EVYhiHUSrR
— Brookings Institution (@BrookingsInst) January 19, 2021
An Afghan political settlement by May is virtually impossible, writes @LaurelMillerICG.
An increase in violence in Afghanistan and the collapse of the peace process was identified as a top concern for U.S. policymakers. https://t.co/TYGnyGOxOz
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 22, 2021
🎧 What challenges will the Biden administration face in Congress?
Hear from @AlgeneSajery and Christopher Tuttle on The President's Inbox. https://t.co/Z7kQKek8vN
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 21, 2021
Every year, we ask experts which conflicts could arise or worsen in the coming year. A North Korean crisis, a collapsed Afghan peace deal, and a crisis between China and the United States over Taiwan ranked as some of the top concerns. https://t.co/6Aw2E9vFiW
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 21, 2021
During the U.S. Capitol assault, insurrectionists in the U.S. learned what their counterparts in the Middle East already knew: If you want to overthrow a government, infiltrate the security services and the military, writes @stevenacook in @ForeignPolicy. https://t.co/bxPHZePwO8
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 21, 2021
President Biden has recommitted the United States to the World Health Organization, following Trump's withdrawal from the agency last year.
Here's how WHO has responded to the pandemic: https://t.co/yJS3567SGV
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 21, 2021
Biden's vaccine plan is the most ambitious vaccination campaign in U.S. history. @TomBollyky, @JenniferNuzzo, and Prasith Baccam say it needs support that will be equal to the task. https://t.co/iV1aAGXM7h via @NYTopinion
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 21, 2021
The Paris Agreement and World Health Organization won’t be the last international agreements and institutions that the United States reenters.
Here's what else is on Biden's docket: https://t.co/iNzwC7pTbv
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 21, 2021
Biden's message was impossible to miss, says @JamesMLindsay. https://t.co/poqI4KZU1s
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 21, 2021
The United States has rejoined the Paris Agreement.
Here's what to know about the climate pact: https://t.co/AQ0I0cWRYk
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 20, 2021
To combat populism, Biden should enact policies that stimulate wage growth for working- and middle-class Americans and demonstrate his commitment to be the president of all Americans, writes @Yascha_Mounk. https://t.co/6Btgqe4lGP
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 20, 2021
Here are seven inaugural addresses worth looking back on: https://t.co/S2BsvxiM89
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 20, 2021
Did you know JFK was the last president to wear the traditional top hat to his inauguration? https://t.co/hiEJEHY1DK
— Council on Foreign Relations (@CFR_org) January 20, 2021
Even before Trump became president, the United States earned a reputation as an unreliable partner in the global fight against climate change. Read Steven Herz, @brendanguy, and @jschmidtnrdc on what the Biden administration will need to do to change that:https://t.co/3geRSUFa3S
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 22, 2021
Read @cmyeaton and @dylanbgeorge on why the United States needs a centralized system for disease forecasting, to both succeed in the fight against COVID-19 and to better prepare for future outbreaks:https://t.co/J1YdTYuOzH
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
“As a nation, we have to prove to the world that the United States is prepared to lead again—not just with the example of our power but also with the power of our example.” President @JoeBiden outlines his foreign policy vision:https://t.co/50vySCFLyv
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
President Biden has made clear that he sees trade as a “critical pillar” of his administration’s foreign policy. His first order of business must be to address the trade mess left by his predecessor, @ChadBown writes.https://t.co/poRdlXMjsd
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
Throughout the pandemic, the vaunted technocratic expertise of the French government has repeatedly fallen short, Robert Zaretsky writes.https://t.co/2ioSlaVl5o
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
The underlying conditions that brought on the United States’ political crisis remain unchanged, @FukuyamaFrancis writes. Meanwhile, online information and deepening tribalism have worsened the situation enormously.https://t.co/5YfubxKJC9
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
For decades before 2016, the United States pursued a strategy of hardheaded internationalism. @HalBrands considers whether the Biden administration can restore that tradition after four years of Trump:https://t.co/UbaeVqME09
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
Some of the Biden administration’s changes to U.S. Russia policy will be easy and expected. The harder task will be to develop a new strategy that balances containing Moscow and engaging it in narrow areas of shared interest, @McFaul writes.https://t.co/Fy3Moo8DbY
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
“The problem is not, as many might suspect, that officers are too political; it is that they think they can ignore politics altogether.”https://t.co/D91FUWcN1E
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
“The arrival of an external competitor has often pushed the United States to become its best self; handled judiciously, it can once again.” Read Kurt M. Campbell and @RushDoshi on how a constructive China policy could support domestic renewal:https://t.co/AI2wJEYkg2
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
The U.S. is different from other nations and its nationalism is different, too. Jill Lepore surveys the attempts to craft a common history over the past two centuries and argues for a renewed effort to define what it means to be American.https://t.co/URmqYcEoni
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
“Activists—especially in the large Muslim-majority countries that permit the most space for media and civil society—are pressing their governments to make the Uighurs a priority.”https://t.co/ehSQkXRWCG
— Foreign Affairs (@ForeignAffairs) January 21, 2021
No better way to understand what Biden's foreign policy will look than to read some of these *80* @ForeignAffairs articles by top Biden nominees. https://t.co/BOUytCOaPk
— Justin Vogt (@Justin_Vogt) January 21, 2021
This by @jleibenluft, on why our weak labor protections and weaker labor strength made the United States much more vulnerable to covid compared to peer countries, was one of the best pandemic-economy pieces of last year. https://t.co/QsCA6ZzBtk
— Mike Konczal (@rortybomb) January 21, 2021
Yesterday, President Biden's team began to #BuildBackBetter, including on democracy at home & abroad. In @ForeignAffairs, ideas from Tom Carothers, Alex Pascal & me on POTUS's Democracy Summit. @CarnegieDCG @CarnegieEndow @DouglasLFarrar @RachelKleinfeldhttps://t.co/v5FuOK8q36
— Frances Z. Brown (@franceszbrown) January 21, 2021
Must read essay! Excellent ideas and realistic assessment of current and future challenges for US diplomacy if we do not act now.
How To Save @StateDept by William J. Burns and @LindaT_G in @ForeignAffairs
https://t.co/AONZmONPlO— Farah Pandith (@Farah_Pandith) January 21, 2021
"Even as they rebrand the vaccine-distribution effort and insist that they are inheriting a terrible mess, they are hinting that they basically expect things to continue on their current path." https://t.co/6FHoWQsPII
— AEI (@AEI) January 21, 2021
There are better ways to help low-wage workers than raising the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour. @MichaelRStrain @bopinion https://t.co/gQBXeBTRps
— AEI (@AEI) January 22, 2021
China is bent on circumventing the global position of the dollar with a digital yuan. Washington needs to get in the digital currency game. https://t.co/45zwcoLvX3
— AEI (@AEI) January 21, 2021
Joe Biden's belief that Washington should directly help domestic manufacturing — through targeted spending plans, special tax subsidies, and trade policy — is popular among lawmakers. But the history of such efforts gives ample reason for skepticism. https://t.co/N82z8aechD
— AEI (@AEI) January 21, 2021
At this fraught juncture in our national existence, the incoming president must convince a mistrustful public that he recognizes the new threats to freedom loose in our country. https://t.co/HADTlX7mHT
— AEI (@AEI) January 21, 2021
We asked 9 scholars to offer guidance in their areas of expertise that the president might find useful in 2021 and beyond. Here are a few of those ideas. https://t.co/MqbFnV2MGB pic.twitter.com/0cjyO9wHN4
— AEI (@AEI) January 20, 2021
Once enough conservatives recover this way of thinking and acting, the culture of victimization that has overtaken so much territory in conservatism will begin to recede. @streeterryan https://t.co/KFo9G9foMo
— AEI (@AEI) January 20, 2021
Aid to states and localities is badly needed to support the economy. But not $2,000 checks for people who never lost income or jobs. https://t.co/osphnCvHWQ
— AEI (@AEI) January 19, 2021
BREAKING: The US will rejoin the WHO. Revisit @dpletka's report where she argues that the WHO’s failures cannot be allowed to recur. Without change, it will fail again. It must implement reforms if it wants to restore confidence and earn US support. https://t.co/UpUcXqLNb7
— AEI Foreign Policy (@AEIfdp) January 21, 2021
The emerging economic opportunity in the Arctic raises the potential for collaboration between Russia and China—while posing new national security concerns for the United States.
Learn more from @csisponi's latest Deep Dive Debrief. https://t.co/IqxMAlpTN1 pic.twitter.com/hsKGhbRMK6
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 21, 2021
The Biden administration’s approach to addressing climate change must reflect a new geopolitical environment based on productive competition, writes @CSISEnergy director @sladislaw. https://t.co/ff79aHlkLN
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 21, 2021
In a new Global Forecast 2021 piece, @MPGoodman88 outlines three aspects of international economic policy in which President Biden's impulses appear to pull in conflicting directions. https://t.co/XSi11r3lqU
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 21, 2021
The transition to a Biden administration should not simply add up to more or less decoupling with China but an entirely new conception of the relationship, writes @CSISCBE's @KennedyCSIS. https://t.co/c2aNMHD7fa pic.twitter.com/QSmJneSoTT
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 21, 2021
The United States must advance a conditions-based approach to both the Afghan government and the Taliban's failures if it is to ensure a lasting peace, writes CSIS's Burke Chair in Strategy Anthony Cordesman. https://t.co/Fk6pbsv1r7
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 21, 2021
How might the divided nature of U.S. politics affect the Biden administration’s energy and climate agenda?
Tune in for analysis from @CSISEnergy's @sladislaw and @ClearviewEnergy's @kevinbookdc. https://t.co/ChPVi1RDTn
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 21, 2021
.@CSIS_Trade's Bill Reinsch posits how the Biden administration might approach international trade. https://t.co/80sv1hM6i7
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 21, 2021
The United States once led the world in educational exchanges; today, our strategic competitors have filled the gap. https://t.co/5a1K496628 pic.twitter.com/CBtX3Jb55z
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 21, 2021
The United States might feel it is done with the Middle East, but the reverse isn’t true.
Learn more from @CSISMidEast Director Jon Alterman https://t.co/TdbpZLepam. pic.twitter.com/efKADT5Ykm
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 21, 2021
This Thursday at 1:00 p.m. EST, join @CSISCBE experts @KennedyCSIS, @RhodiumDan, Claire Reade, and John Holden to discuss Biden's new policy on U.S.-China economic relations. https://t.co/VNSWWXibcb
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 19, 2021
The future of the transatlantic relationship will be defined by issues such as the Boeing-Airbus subsidy case, digital services regulation, TTP, and climate change.
Learn more by subscribing to Bill Reinsch's weekly column. https://t.co/zWYpC2e3X9
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 19, 2021
The CCP’s increased presence within Chinese companies challenges traditional understandings of corporate autonomy, and by extension, how Chinese companies should be treated under existing international trade agreements. https://t.co/fNlWjnliUf
— CSIS (@CSIS) January 19, 2021
In the growing great-power competition with China and Russia, the U.S. must fully commit to a robust shipbuilding plan and funding of the budgets to make it reality. https://t.co/U5RK4jNTem
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 21, 2021
How does the left plan on unravelling the economic gains that all Americans saw under President Trump?
Eliminating the legislative filibuster.@joelgriffith tells @mcollinsNEWS why it is “the last line of defense against the far-left policy agenda…” https://t.co/8pAh7OzABt
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 21, 2021
Conservatives have a special role and responsibility—to oppose a progressive agenda that promises more government programs and regulations, more taxes and spending, that would take us down the road to socialism
A must-read from @LeeWEdwards: https://t.co/aoboWNLyk0
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 21, 2021
We Can Preserve Jobs, Affordable Energy, AND a Clean Environment with the #KeystoneXL Pipeline https://t.co/wt26vdWDd2
— Heritage Foundation (@Heritage) January 21, 2021
With the nomination for the next secretary of Homeland Security on the horizon, senators will make clear whether they consent to amnesty and open borders. https://t.co/xMApikTRna
— Mike Howell (@MHowellTweets) January 21, 2021
"Through litigation and legislation, we need to make it clear that it’s lawful to act on the convictions that we are created male and female, and that male and female are created for each other.” – @RyanTAnd https://t.co/8lB3Yu1bgY
— Josh Hammer (@josh_hammer) January 21, 2021
This is a good example of the absurdity of pan-ethnic labels. Cesar Chavez isn't a symbol to "Latinos." He's important to Mexican Americans—and that's cool.
The leftwing activists quoted in these articles don't speak for all of us, so don't purport that they do. Be precise. https://t.co/HgQlUvMwWU
— Giancarlo Sopo (@GiancarloSopo) January 21, 2021
Appreciate @newsy having me on to discuss the implications of the #Xinjiang genocide determination. This is a call to action for the @joebiden admin to defend the #humanrights of #Uighurs. Time to extend P-2 refugee status, combat #forcedlabor, & sanction more Chinese officials. pic.twitter.com/oz1WiQ7H3v
— Olivia Enos (@OliviaEnos) January 21, 2021
The @WHO shielded China from accountability for lying to the world about COVID-19.
@RepJamesComer and @SteveScalise blasted @POTUS decision to rejoin the World Health Organization without it undergoing serious reforms first.👇https://t.co/dmD97UTmyO— Oversight Committee Republicans (@GOPoversight) January 20, 2021