In 1994, the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act was passed to help law enforcement adapt to the rise of digital networks. Decades later, it is becoming clearer that this legislation may have opened the United States up to vulnerabilities that are being exploited by foreign entities.
Former Federal Communications Commission Chair Tom Wheeler discusses how we got here and argues that cybersecurity needs to be a forethought—rather than an afterthought—in the design of digital networks.
The working class needs quality jobs. In many ways, America’s economic and workforce development systems are not designed or incentivized to focus on quality jobs. To reorient these systems, regional leaders need a firm, shared, quantitative definition of a quality job, Ryan Donahue, Mayu Takeuchi, and Glencora Haskins emphasize.
The future of the dollar and global markets. The U.S. dollar has risen moderately in the weeks since Donald Trump won the presidential election—an almost exact repeat of the dollar’s rise after the 2016 election. Robin Brooks explains what is driving this and what it means for the rest of the world.
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