Boeing Crisis Illustrates Regulatory Failures, Tr ump’s Misguided Demands on Asian Allies, and More

December 19, 2019

The Boeing 737 Max airplane crashed twice over the last year, killing 346 people. Connor Raso discusses the FAA’s decision to delegate most of the safety certification work to Boeing and outlines failures in the federal regulatory process that led to the disaster.

“Excessive U.S. monetary demands degrade alliances based on shared principles and goals into mere transactional relationships.” Bruce Klingner, Jung Pak, and Sue Mi Terry write that President Trump’s inaccurate beliefs about “free-riding” allies ignores significant military and diplomatic contributions provided to America by South Korea and Japan over the decades.

The current paradigm around consumer consent over the use of their data is not working. David Medine and Gayatry Murthy argue that it should be the responsibility of companies to protect consumer data and only use it for legitimate purposes.

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