In this Book
- Brookings Big Ideas for America
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: Brookings Institution Press
An Agenda for the Nation
What are the biggest issues facing the country as Donald Trump and the GOP-led 115th Congress take office?
Any new administration faces a myriad of issues and problems it must take on as it ascends to power. In this volume, Brookings scholars and others offer their solutions, from Ben Bernanke and Richard Bush to Richard Reeves and Dayna Matthew, from Bob Reischauer and Alice Rivlin to Robert Kagan and Elaine Kamarck, to Belle Sawhill, Doug Elmendorf, David Wessel, Bill Galston, and Carol Graham, as well as many others.
These powerful essays engage and inform readers on a variety of timely, crucial issues that affect the present and the future of the United States. Much of the focus is on the threatened middle-class dream in America. On the domestic front, Brookings scholars tackle topics ranging from health care and jobs to economic opportunity and trade policy, to criminal justice and infrastructure. The alliance system, relationships with China and Mexico, nuclear weapons, terrorism, and the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, Syria, and Iraq are among the foreign policies issues addressed.
Table of Contents
- Table Contents
- pp. v-x
- An Agenda for America
- pp. 1-6
- Part I: The Pulse of America
- Part II: Growing the Economy
- 11. Major Tax Issues in 2017
- pp. 120-128
- 20. Securing the Future of Driverless Cars
- pp. 201-208
- Part III: Security at Home and Abroad
- 21. America's Awesome Military
- pp. 211-220
- 22. Countering Violent Extremism in America
- pp. 221-231
- 23. Criminal Justice Reform
- pp. 232-240
- Part IV: Foreign Challenges and Opportunities
- 26. America's Role in a Turbulent World
- pp. 259-266
- 27. The Twilight of the Liberal World Order
- pp. 267-274
- 35. Addressing the Syria Refugee Crisis
- pp. 340-348
- Contributors
- pp. 373-376