Alan Smith

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Program Director of the Roosevelt Institute | Campus Network
Help Shape the Millennial Blueprint for Defense and Diplomacy
By Alan Smith
Written by Leslie Bull, Senior Fellow in Defense and Diplomacy with the Roosevelt Institute Campus Network. Alan Smith is working on the project. With increasingly provocative threats from North Korea, cyber attacks from China, the war in…
Newt Gingrich Co-Opts Millennials' Progressive Ideas on Social Security
By Alan Smith
Last week, speaking in Las Vegas, former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich dropped this gem in his stump speech: “What the poor need is a trampoline so they can spring up, so I am for replacing the safety net with a trampoline.” Newt Gingrich is…
Barack Obama Can Recapture Momentum in 2012 Through His Grassroots Campaigns
By Alan Smith
During his term, President Barack Obama has routinely faced a Congress bent on obstructionist tactics at all costs. This pattern of deadlock has become as frustrating as it is predictable, but Obama has had a unique answer to this sort of…