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May 20, 2011

Weekend Reading

Egyptian women walk past a policeman in the newly renovated historical street of Elmoez Lideen Ella in Old Cairo (Asmaa Waguih/Courtesy Reuters) The Maghreb Blog: Morocco’s Shaky Commitment to Re…

Weekend Reading

October 12, 2018

United States
Happy 243rd Birthday to the U.S. Navy!

The U.S. Navy turns 243 years-old tomorrow. On October 13, 1775, the Continental Congress commissioned two ships, each with eighty sailors, “for intercepting such transports as may be laden with warl…

Navy Birthday 2018

May 12, 2014

Development
Financial Inclusion: A New Common Ground for Central Banks

Emerging Voices features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This article is from Alfred Hannig, executive dir…

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September 18, 2016

United States
Happy 69th Birthday to the U.S. Air Force!

The United States Air Force marks sixty-nine years of service.

F-16 U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly in formation during a media day ahead of the Los Angeles County Air Show in Lancaster

June 16, 2016

Fossil Fuels
Why the United States Should Respond to Oil Price Volatility By Reducing Oil Consumption

This post is co-authored by Sagatom Saha, research associate for energy and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. Read the report from a recent CFR workshop on oil price volatility. The…

A service truck drives past an oil well on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota (REUTERS/Andrew Cullen).