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Why we need to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay and six steps to get there.

Report from Scott Lilly on why a stimulus package must be big and targeted. Scott Lilly

The 2009 Nuclear Posture Review, the third formal review of U.S. nuclear strategy conducted since the end of the Cold War, should be conducted as a strategy-driven exercise guided by a vision for nuclear weapons policy elaborated by the president

A new study puts generation rates for power from nuclear plants at triple current U.S. electricity rates, writes Joseph Romm. Joseph Romm

Women are still earning only 78 cents on a man’s dollar, but two bills before Congress could help narrow the gap.

Matt Miller releases a new book on letting go of the old ways of thinking to unleash a new prosperity. Matt Miller

What is missing so far from today's talk of a progressive-era-in-the-making is a unifying agenda for American foreign policy that will leave the world safer and more prosperous when President-elect Obama leaves office. Nina Hachigian

Standardizing codes and billing across industries would save much time and reduce errors and administrative costs for the government, insurance plans, and health care providers.

The new administration should work with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to develop and launch an initiative to reduce preventable hospital admissions and re-admissions

Andrew Light explains why working to reduce global warming pollution through other bilateral and multilateral channels may ultimately save the moral heart of the U.N. climate change process. Andrew Light

Development finance institutions, or DFIs, such as multilateral development banks and bilateral aid ministries currently pay scant attention and devote few resources to helping countries implement basic safety nets and adequate investor, antibribery, consumer, and environmental protections.

Stay in this New Year’s and entertain your friends with a party that’s fun, healthy, and sustainable.

Kit Batten and Kari Manlove outline obstacles to modernizing the electrical grid for renewable electricity transmission. Kit Batten, Kari Manlove

A reinforced ILO program to follow up on the findings of its supervisory bodies would cover a variety of situations.

These issue briefs from CAP's health experts can help you better understand some of the key concepts factoring into the health reform debate.

Issue brief from Lester Feder and Ellen-Marie Whelan details why the broken individual insurance market, in its current form, is not fit to serve as a model for system-wide reform. Lester Feder, Ellen-Marie Whelan

A CAP timeline highlights Bush's failure on several environmental fronts, beginning with his first day in office in 2001.

New analysis from Dan Weiss, Alexandra Kougentakis, Nick Kong, and Sam Schiller shows that ACCCE talk on clean coal is not backed up by actual investment in the technology. Daniel J. Weiss, Nick Kong, Sam Schiller, Alexandra Kougentakis

Will Straw discusses why we need another stimulus, what should be in it, and how quickly we can start seeing results. Will Straw

A wrap-up from a private roundtable on a new U.S. international economic policy.