In this article, we want to provide a summary of our book’s core argument and draw out its implications for Trump’s second term as well as for the years after Trump leaves center stage.

Added insights from models more precisely illustrate just what kind of balance between minority rights and majority rule the reform would strike, but in others, they show that the reform could backfire on members of the majority or on the reformers who want the Senate to spend less time wrangling with obstruction.

By prioritizing robust reforms to our existing unemployment and workforce systems that benefit all workers — not just those who can prove that their jobs were eliminated due to AI — Congress can help the U.S. workforce retool without repeating the mistakes of TAA.

The period of problem solving in criminal justice appears to be over, driven by increasing public concern about crime and repolarization in response to social movement activism.

The report recommends that agencies continue to publicise research needs, find additional ways to break down barriers between researchers and analysts, and incentivise policy-informative research by highlighting when research is cited in agency analyses.

Racial preferences were found in parts of the admissions process where the use of race is specifically prohibited under Federal law.

Cover bills reduce the punishment associated with compromising even if respondents find out about the cover bill from legislators who opposed the compromise.

The elasticity of substitution between H-2B and U.S. workers is very low (0.8–2.2). Thus the effect on U.S. employment is zero or positive overall, and positive in rural areas. Forensic analysis suggests similarly low substitutability of black-market labor.

Migration is not a substitute for development, but a catalyst and major opportunity. Policy priorities include regional free-movement regimes, new destination-country partnerships, restructured skill-training systems for a mobile world, and integrating migration into aid partnerships.