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Black voter turnout passes whites in 2012

...long-term challenges for Republicans, given that 80 percent of nonwhites voted for Obama in November.Analyses by Brookings Institution demographer William H. Frey show that Republican Mitt Romney would have barely won the presidency if whites and...

http://juneauempire.com/hope-yen/2013-05-09/black-voter-turnout-passes-whites-20
Number of US drone strikes in Afghanistan rose sharply

...have given Washington at least tacit agreement to carry out the attacks.Peter Singer of the Washington-based Brookings Institution noted that the drone program in Afghanistan is run by the Pentagon, and therefore is more transparent than the...

http://juneauempire.com/kim-gamel/2013-02-20/number-us-drone-strikes-afghanistan
Senate education panel takes up voucher issue

...Public School) kids here."Dr. Diane Ravitch, a professor at New York University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said vouchers divide schools based on race, religion and class while drawing away tax dollars from the public...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-03-03/senate-education-panel-takes-voucher-is
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Older voters look beyond Medicare, Social Security

...fondly recall FDR's New Deal and may be more likely to vote Democratic, said William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. But as time marches on, they'll be replaced by their younger counterparts."The...

http://juneauempire.com/not-web/2012-09-28/older-voters-look-beyond-medicare-soc
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Our democracy is in need of little love

...Ornstein, the U.S. government is more dysfunctional than it was post Civil War. Mann, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Ornstein, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, recently released their nonpartisan...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-07-01/our-democracy-need-little-love
Opinion
The nuclear countdown in Iran

...to continued progress toward a nuclear Iran.In a recent article, Michael O'Hanlon and Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution proposed relying on sabotage as part of a strategy they dub "constriction.""Essentially, we would continue...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-04-03/nuclear-countdown-iran
Opinion
The US still has a promising future

...America's problems, but in the meantime let's not lose sight of what's right. ? O'Hanlon is a senior fellow and director of research for foreign policy at the Brookings Institution. He wrote this for the Los Angeles Times.

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-08-14/us-still-has-promising-future
Opinion
College: Expensive, but a smart choice

...Greenstone directs the Hamilton Project at the Brookings Institution and is a professor of environmental economics...the Hamilton Project and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. More on their research can be found at brookings...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-08-22/college-expensive-smart-choice
Opinion
Dems: Get real about U.S. energy policy

...gives us the wherewithal to make this transition.To paraphrase Winston Churchill: Give the American people the tools and they will finish the job.? Ebinger is director of the Brookings Institution's Energy Security Initiative.

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-11-30/dems-get-real-about-us-energy-policy
Opinion
A troubling U.S.-Israeli divide

...journalists and intellectuals, Israelis don't believe Obama. At the eighth Saban Forum, sponsored by the Brookings Institution, I heard Israelis say repeatedly that Obama and his team were not credible when they said Iran wouldn't be permitted...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2011-12-14/troubling-us-israeli-divide
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