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September 8, 2021

United States
Seven Movies Worth Watching About 9/11

With the twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks this Saturday, we recommend sources for better understanding 9/11 and its aftermath. Today: seven movies about 9/11.

Movies
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Anna Shortridge The Water's Edge

August 5, 2016

Turkey
Weekend Reading: Turkey’s Coups, Iraq’s Descent, and Saudi Arabia’s Jews

Reading selections for the weekend of August 5, 2016.

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Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates

June 19, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
How Sports Can Move the Ball for Women’s Rights Around the World

Mary Harvey, a former member of the U.S. national women's soccer team, and Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch discuss how sports institutions can be an important tool for expanding human rights abroa…

Adjunct Senior Fellow Catherine Powell moderates panel with Mary V. Harvey and Minky Worden.
Blog Post by Catherine Powell and Guest Blogger for Women Around the World Women Around the World

June 26, 2020

United States
Five Foreign-Policy Movies with Women in the Lead

Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films that feature women at the helm. 

Movies clockwise from the top left: Carve Her Name with Pride/IMDB; Eye in the Sky/Bleecker Street; Paradise Road/SBS; Atomic Blonde/Script; Zero Dark Thirty/Empire; A Private War/IMDB.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

September 22, 2011

Politics and Government
The Domestic Politics of Obama’s UN Speech

President Barack Obama addresses the sixty-sixth United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York on September 21, 2011. (Jessica Rinaldi/courtesy Reuters) One of TWE’s founding …

U.S. President Barack Obama addresses the 66th United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters in New York, September 21, 2011. REUTERS/Jessica Rinaldi
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge