Georgetown Public Policy Review
Policy Shaping Our Future
Congress has passed several pieces of major legislation to promote research aimed at finding the cause(s) of autism, but little progress has been made. It is time for the government to reassess its approach by refocusing federal funding for autism research towards areas that will yield the greatest benefits.
A moral action is one that upholds and strengthens the ties that bind a community together, so how can a foreign incursion into sovereign territory be regarded as moral? The U.S.-led coalition’s military intervention against the Islamic State raises an interesting question about the place for morality in foreign affairs, and exposes this specific case for closer scrutiny of the presence of a moral argument.