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Why Millennials Drive Less — And What it Means for Transportation’s Future

September 24, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

It might not feel like it while  trapped in rush hour traffic, but Americans are driving less. Much less. After a nearly 60-year driving boom

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Retro Report’s Josh Fisher: “Freeing Willy”

September 18, 2013 admin All Conversations, Science, Uncategorized

Some 20 years ago, the surprise hit film “Free Willy” followed a boy’s fictional quest to free a dancing, swimming, performing whale named Willy. While

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Rana Mitter, University of Oxford: “Forgotten Ally: China’s WWII 1937-45”

September 12, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Uncategorized

When we talk today of the WWII Allies, many of us immediately think US, Britain and Russia. We forget, some of us at least, the

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Retro Report’s B. Drummond Ayres, Jr.: “The Battle for Busing”

September 10, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

The topic is as contentious as it is enduring: Desegregation in America’s Schools. What began with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 advanced with busing and other maneuvers

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Greg Lindsay, World Policy Institute; co-author, “Aerotropolis”

August 12, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

It’s no secret that our cities are growing – fast. The World Health Organization reports that today more than 50 percent of the world’s population

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Bruce Katz, Brookings Institution: “The Metropolitan Revolution”

August 9, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Much of the innovation in America today comes not from federal or state governments, but from our metropolitan areas. With Washington stuck in budget standoffs,

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Michael O’Hanlon, Brookings Institution

August 1, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

With another round of sequester cuts pending, tensions over military budget cuts continue to grow. US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel outlined a stark choice: Maintain a

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Robert Kaiser, Washington Post Associate Editor

July 31, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

What is truly going wrong in Congress – literally, what isn’t working – that blocks the whole system and generates such frustration? Robert Kaiser, Washington

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Elizabeth Economy, Council on Foreign Relations

July 30, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

Of all the destabilizing threats coming from China today – a slowing economy; military growth; computer hacking; relations with Japan – none may be a

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Joe Nye, former US Asst. Secretary of Defense

July 2, 2013 admin All Conversations, International Affairs, Public Policy, Uncategorized

As we consider our incredible range of urgent international and defense affairs – challenges with our deepest Intelligence Gathering secrets revealed, China, Russia, North Korea,

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Retro Report’s Harry Hanbury — “Walter Reed: The Battle for Recovery”

July 1, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

In 2007, the Washington Post reported on horrible aftercare at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Active duty Army soldiers living and rehabilitating in decrepit conditions: Moldy

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Retro Report’s Drew Magratten: “In the Shadow of Katrina”

July 1, 2013 admin All Conversations, Public Policy, Uncategorized

For a while, it was the storm of the century. Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, with a bulls eye on New Orleans.

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