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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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March 18, 2015
Israel
Obama Buries the Hatchet--in Netanyahu’s Head
It was obvious that after Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s clear election victory, the Obama administration and the president himself would try to bury the hatchet. After all, Obama and Ne…
June 24, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s EFF and Charleston
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), a populist , far-left “revolutionary” political party led by Julius Malema is now the third largest in South Africa’s National Assembly under the system of propor…
April 25, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: Chicago Infrastructure Trust Approved
Chicago’s City Council approved Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s plan for the private-public Chicago Infrastructure Trust (Chicago Tribune). The 41-7 vote by the aldermen came after a six-day delay during which …
May 21, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Zimbabwe Police Label Nigerian Televangelist a Sorcerer
Evangelical and Pentecostal Christianity are powerful forces in sub-Saharan politics. So, too, is the belief in prophecy and sorcery. In Zimbabwe, it is tense times, with uncertainty about President…
June 7, 2017
State and Local Governments (U.S.)
Gearing Up the State Department for the Era of State- and City-Level Diplomacy
It might have been former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s November 2011 trade delegation to India that first caught my attention. Former Washington Governor Chris Gregoire led another in 2012. …
