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- 1From:AEI Paper & StudiesConservatives often say that Big Tech companies, especially Facebook and Twitter, discriminate against conservative viewpoints. However, conservatives make two assumptions that, on closer inspection, are faulty: (1) that...
- 2From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJune 29, 2020 The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) of 1977 generally prohibits corrupt payments to foreign officials in exchange for obtaining or retaining business. Congress enacted the FCPA in response to an...
- 3From:AEI Paper & StudiesThrough years of neglect, the challenge of corruption in Mexico has grown to unsustainable levels, with significant repercussions domestically and abroad. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's campaign to confront...
- 4From:AEI Paper & StudiesKey Points * As discussed in Part I of this series, the First Bank of the United States was both a huge financial success and a political liability. * The same was true for the Second Bank of the United States....
- 5From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsTo help curb corruption in the political process and safeguard First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and association, Congress has enacted laws that regulate political campaign contributions. These laws include...
- 6From:AEI Paper & StudiesWednesday, June 19, 2019 Chairman Graham, Ranking Member Feinstein, and distinguished Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify on what I believe to be one of the most important economic and...
- 7From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsApril 15, 2011 Summary Kenya, a nation of about 36.9 million people, has been an important ally of the United States for decades. Kenya moved from a one-party state to a multi-party democracy in 1992. Kenyans...
- 8From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsNovember 27, 2012 Summary With five successive elected civilian governments, the Central American nation of Panama has made notable political and economic progress since the 1989 U.S. military intervention that...
- 9From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsWith Afghanistan devastated after more than 20 years of warfare, the 2001 fall of the Taliban regime raised questions about the extent of a U.S. and international commitment to Afghanistan. Taking the view that leaving...
- 10From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsAugust 14, 2009 Summary Upon taking office, the Obama Administration faced a deteriorating security environment in Afghanistan, despite a build-up of U.S. forces there in preceding years, including an expanding...
- 11From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsMarch 30, 2011 Summary Central America faces significant security challenges. Criminal threats, fragile political and judicial systems, and social hardships such as poverty and unemployment contribute to...
- 12From:Encyclopedia of World BiographyBIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY Joseph Raymond McCarthy (1908-1957), U.S. senator, in a highly publicized pursuit of a Communist "conspiracy" became a national figure. The term "McCarthyism" became a synonym for reckless smear...
- 13From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsAugust 30, 2011 Summary Central America faces significant security challenges. Criminal threats, fragile political and judicial systems, and social hardships such as poverty and unemployment contribute to...
- 14From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsJune 15, 2010 Summary Kyrgyzstan is a small and poor country in Central Asia that gained independence in 1991 with the breakup of the Soviet Union (see Figure A-1). It has developed a notable but fragile civil...
- 15From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsMay 27, 2009 Summary Drug-related violence in Mexico has spiked in recent years as drug trafficking organizations (DTOs) have competed for control of smuggling routes into the United States. Drug trafficking...
- 16From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsNovember 12, 2010 Summary The limited capacity and widespread corruption of all levels of Afghan governance are growing factors in debate over the effectiveness of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, although Afghan...
- 17From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsOctober 13, 2010 Summary The weak performance and lack of transparency within the Afghan government are a growing factor in debate over the effectiveness of U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, although government...
- 18From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsMay 12, 2009 Summary The central government's limited writ and widespread official corruption are helping sustain a Taliban insurgency, and have fed pessimism about the Afghanistan stabilization effort. However,...
- 19From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsThe limited capacity and widespread corruption of all levels of Afghan governance are factors in debate over the effectiveness of U.S. policy in Afghanistan and in implementing a transition to Afghan security leadership...
- 20From:Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Issue BriefsSince 2001, U.S. policy has been to help expand the capacity of Afghan institutions, most of which were nearly non-existent during Taliban rule. No parliament was functioning during that time, and Afghanistan was run by...