“Vladimir Putin has said that, if the West imposes new sanctions on Russia over a crisis in Ukraine, it will lead to a rupture in relations. We need to call his bluff—and up the ante.” Michael O’Hanlon and David Victor discuss why an effective sanctions policy must address Russian energy—the sector that allows the country to finance mischief abroad.
The Biden administration’s nomination effort and unified Senate Democrats achieved more first-year judicial confirmations than any president since John F. Kennedy in 1961. In the first of a three-part series, Russell Wheeler reviews Biden’s first-year process for judicial appointments.
Though the omicron wave has the year off to a bad start, there is a sign of hope: the potential development of a “universal” coronavirus vaccine that could eventually inoculate those who take it against most conceivable COVID-19 variants. Robert Litan explains one way that the federal government can encourage as many people as possible to take this blockbuster vaccine.
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