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May 6, 2024

Inequality
A Conversation with Dr. Geeta Rao Gupta, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues, U.S. Department of State

A discussion with Ambassador Rao Gupta on women’s political representation, violence against women, and new U.S. policy initiatives to advance gender equality and UN Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace, …

Ambassador at Large for Global Women’s Issues at the Department of State, Geeta Rao Gupta, speaks at the COP28
Blog Post by Linda Robinson Women Around the World

March 8, 2024

Nigeria
Hafsat Abiola: Invest in Women to Accelerate Progress

The president of Women in Africa (WIA) Initiative, Hafsat Abiola, shares her experiences for International Women’s Day under the theme “Invest in women: Accelerate progress.”

A woman works in a rice mill in Aliade community in the Gwer local government area of the central state of Benue October 4, 2012.
Blog Post by Linda Robinson Women Around the World

June 27, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Court Backs EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rules

DC’s U.S. Court of Appeals rejected a challenge to the findings by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that greenhouse gas emissions contribute to global warming and are therefore a threat to p…

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Director Lisa Jackson announcing the EPA finding that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health on December 7, 2009 (Jonathan Ernst/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Renewing America Staff Renewing America

March 21, 2024

United States
Women Voters’ Pivotal Role in Electing the Next U.S. President

The 2024 U.S. presidential election could be the first election clearly decided by women, in a landmark assertion of power by the majority.

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Blog Post by Linda Robinson Renewing America

December 15, 2011

Defense and Security
Guest Post: Linda Robinson on the End of the Iraq War

Members of the U.S. Air Force board a plane at al-Asad air base in Iraq before flying to the United States. (Mohammed Ameen/courtesy Reuters) I woke up this morning to an email inbox full of news al…

Members of the U.S. Air Force board a plane before flying to the U.S., at al-Asad air base in Iraq’s western province of Anbar November 1, 2011. U.S. President Barack Obama announced on Oct. 21 that American troops would fully withdraw from Iraq by year-end, as scheduled under a 2008 security pact between the two countries. Picture taken November 1, 2011. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 29, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: EPA Proposes Greenhouse Gas Limits on New Plants

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed limits for carbon dioxide emissions of new power plants (NYT). The rules will require future power plants to restrict emissions to less than 1,000 p…

Carbon capture test project at a West Virginia power plant of American Electric Power (AEP). The project was co-funded by the Department of Energy, but halted last year (AEP/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Renewing America Staff Renewing America