How Can Washington Take On Big Tech? The Digital Commerce Agency

By Olive Morris — February 25, 2021

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Policy Papers

Social Policy

K-12 Education: What Happened to the Bipartisan Consensus on Charter Schools?
National Security

Foreign Policy Challenges Facing The Biden Administration: Middle East
Social Policy

K-12 Education: Can More Funding for Low-Quality Schools Move the Needle?

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Climate and Energy

Lessons from The Texas Storm: They May Not Be What You Think

March 1, 2021

In mid-February 2021, a severe winter storm hit Texas and neighboring U.S. states, bringing record-low freezing temperatures, snow, sleet, and ice. Storm warnings were issued before the weather turned, but no amount of advisories could have prepared Texans for what was to come. At the height of the storm, PowerOutages.US reported that over 4.5 million homes and businesses in Texas had lost power....

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Social Policy

Comparing 2021 COVID-19 Relief Packages

February 17, 2021

President Biden and Senate Republicans have each released a COVID-19 relief bill proposal. How do the two bills compare? Here’s a side-by-side breakdown of what’s included in each: Sources: S.Con.Res.5 and the Republican COVID-19 Relief Proposal. Last updated on February 17,...

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Health Care

One Change Could Prevent a Repeat of New York’s COVID-19 Nursing Home Crisis

February 4, 2021

On January 28, 2021, the New York State Attorney General Letitia James released a report detailing her office’s investigation into how New York State nursing homes responded to COVID-19. The report found that nursing homes failed to comply with infection protocols, lacked the personal protective equipment needed to keep residents and staff safe, and did not conduct enough testing to properly...

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Climate and Energy

Red Ink: The New York Times and the Keystone XL Pipeline

January 28, 2021

The New Center's Red Ink calls out and contextualizes the bias that is increasingly seen in mainstream news stories, as well as outlets that push an explicitly liberal or conservative worldview. “Red Ink” is modeled on the red pen editors traditionally use to mark up a reporter’s story. Unlike many fact-check sites, which police politicians and public figures for getting statistical...

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The Big Issues

Climate and Energy

The fight against climate change is a multi-decade challenge, and must be sustained across many presidencies and sessions of Congress. For any solution to stand a chance, it must be forged in the center.

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