CRS – Reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Courts: A Brief Overview. Jared P. Cole, Legislative Attorney; Andrew Nolan, Legislative Attorney. March 31, 2014. “Recent disclosures of various National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance and data collection programs have prompted increased attention on the government’s collection of foreign intelligence. Pursuant to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) of 1978 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC)… Continue Reading
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Monthly Archives: April 2014
Overview of Constitutional Challenges to NSA Collection Activities and Recent Developments
CRS – Overview of Constitutional Challenges to NSA Collection Activities and Recent Developments. Edward C. Liu , Legislative Attorney; Andrew Nolan, Legislative Attorney; Richard M. Thompson II; Legislative Attorney, April 1, 2014 “Beginning in the summer of 2013, media reports of foreign intelligence activities conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA) have been published and are apparently based on unauthorized disclosures of… Continue Reading
Boston Review – Inequality Kills
“For nearly two hundred years America was one of the healthiest and longest-lived countries, but today, over thirty countries have better health by many measures. What happened? In answering this question, the distinction between health and health care is a critical one, but something that seems not to be well understood by the lay public, health… Continue Reading
Google posts 360-degree “temple view” from atop Cambodia’s Angkor Wat
Wander through Angkor’s thousand-year-old temples on Street View: “The sunrise at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia, is one of Southeast Asia’s most iconic and breathtaking vistas. Dawn brings to light the many temples that are thousands of years old, nestled in a web of ancient roads and jungles. Today you’ll be one step closer… Continue Reading
Report – The Case for Investing in Women
High-performing companies have women in senior management: “Cristian Dezsö at the University of Maryland, and David Ross at Columbia University Business School applied Standard & Poor’s ExecuComp data to the top 1,500 US firms from 1992 to 2006. They examined the relationship between firm quality as measured by Tobin’s Q (the market value of a… Continue Reading
MENA Women: Opportunities and Obstacles in 2014
“On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2014, the Middle East Program at the Wilson Center invited a cross-section of women activists, politicians, academics, and entrepreneurs to give us their views on the situation for women in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This publication, MENA Women: Opportunities and Obstacles in 2014 includes pieces from… Continue Reading
BLS Occupational Employment Statistics
“The Occupational Employment Statistics (OES) program produces employment and wage estimates annually for over 800 occupations. These estimates are available for the nation as a whole, for individual States, and for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas; national occupational estimates for specific industries are also available. The May 2013 Occupational Employment Statistics data were released on April 1, 2014 and… Continue Reading
Status Update: Encryption at Yahoo
By Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer: “When I joined Yahoo four weeks ago, we were in the middle of a massive project to protect our users and their data through the deployment of encryption technologies as we discussed in our November 2013 Tumblr. So today, we’re updating you on our progress: Traffic moving between Yahoo data… Continue Reading
Why Fostering a Culture of Compassion in the Workplace Matters
Knowledge@Wharton – April 2, 2014: “For some employees, a typical day at the office might begin with a barrage of work-related questions from impatient colleagues who have been awaiting their arrival. For others, it might start off with a series of cheerful greetings from co-workers, questions about how their family members are doing or perhaps an… Continue Reading
Democracy and the Policy Preferences of Wealthy Americans
Benjamin I. Page, Larry M. Bartels, and Jason Seawright: “It is important to know what wealthy Americans seek from politics and how (if at all) their policy preferences differ from those of other citizens. There can be little doubt that the wealthy exert more political influence than the less affluent do. If they tend to… Continue Reading
Financial Stability Policies for Shadow Banking
Tobias Adrian, Staff Report No. 664, February 2014: “This paper explores financial stability policies for the shadow banking system. I tie policy options to economic mechanisms for shadow banking that have been documented in the literature. I then illustrate the role of shadow bank policies using three examples: agency mortgage real estate investment trusts, leveraged lending, and captive… Continue Reading
New GAO Reports – Information Security, Information Technology, Missile Defense, VA Health Care
INFORMATION SECURITY: Federal Agencies Need to Enhance Responses to Data Breaches, GAO-14-487T: Published: Apr 2, 2014. Publicly Released: Apr 2, 2014. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY: IRS Needs to Improve the Reliability and Transparency of Reported Investment Information, GAO-14-298: Published: Apr 2, 2014. Publicly Released: Apr 2, 2014. MISSILE DEFENSE: Mixed Progress in Achieving Acquisition Goals and Improving Accountability, GAO-14-481T: Published: Apr 2, 2014. Publicly Released:… Continue Reading
