Testing payments for vaccine recipients, Biden’s first-year judicial appointments, and what the West can do if Russia invades Ukraine.
| If Russia invades, sanction its oil and gas “Vladimir Putin has said that, if the West imposes new sanctions on Russia over a crisis in Ukraine, it will lead to a rupture in relations. We need to call his bluff—and up the ante.” Michael O’Hanlon and David Victor discuss why an effective sanctions policy must address Russian energy—the sector that allows the country to finance mischief abroad. Read more |
| President Biden’s aggressive judicial nominations agenda The Biden administration’s nomination effort and unified Senate Democrats achieved more first-year judicial confirmations than any president since John F. Kennedy in 1961. In the first of a three-part series, Russell Wheeler reviews Biden’s first-year process for judicial appointments. Read more |
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