In particular, the administration should push for an amendment to the law that would require the timely publication of data that would allow the public to assess: • The actual predictiveness of the act’s Risk and Needs Assessment System to determine the risk level of prisoners with respect to recidivism, as well as serious or violent misconduct while incarcerated; and • The effectiveness of prison. [...] The culture wars The Department of Education must not pressure school districts to indoctrinate teachers and students in “critical race theory.” Joe Biden has promised to “put away the harsh rhetoric, to lower the temperature” and has insisted that “we must stop treating our opponents as enemies.”9 If he truly intends his presidency to be a time of “unity and healing,” he should ensure that the De. [...] Allegations of individual discrimination, whether or not they were found to have merit, triggered a broad, system- wide investigation if the ratio of minority students suspended was 2x or more the ratio of white students suspended. (see the final section, “Determining the Scope of OCR’s Investigation,” in “OCR’s Approach to the Evaluation, Investigation, and Resolution of Title VI Discipline Compl. [...] The Department of Justice allocated almost half the “fines” imposed in these mammoth bank settlements to write down the principal owed by consumers on their mortgages and home equity loans; the settlements also pressured the banks to allocate large sums of money to various “community development” and housing-activist groups. [...] In terms of the environment, China is now the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide, accounting for 30% of global emissions—twice the share as from the United States.23 Over the past several years, Beijing has brought online more new coal power plants than the rest of the world combined.
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