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July 30, 2021

Human Rights
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Human Rights

Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about the fight for human rights.

Three movie posters in black frames: In the Name of the Father (man looks out from black background);Beasts of No Nation (a young boy with ammunition wrapped around his neck looks out); The Pianist (a man walks among the rubble of a city).
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay and Margaret Gach The Water's Edge

October 16, 2012

United States
TWE Remembers: The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (Cuban Missile Crisis)

One of the first decisions that President John F. Kennedy made when he learned of the Soviet missiles in Cuba was to assemble a small group of senior administration officials to give him advice. That…

President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExCom) regarding the crisis in Cuba on October 29, 1962. (Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

November 16, 2011

Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012 Roundup: Cain on Libya, Huntsman on Afghanistan

A water tower seen from the highway in Independence, Iowa. (Jessica Rinaldi/courtesy Reuters) Herman Cain has been in Iowa defending his halting answer on Libya earlier this week by saying that he w…

Campaign 2012 Roundup: Cain on Libya, Huntsman on Afghanistan
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

September 2, 2016

Cybersecurity
Brazil Must Rebalance Its Approach to Cybersecurity

Robert Muggah is the research director of the Igarapé Institute, an independent think tank based in Rio de Janeiro. Nathan B. Thompson is a researcher at Igarapé. When Brazil attends the Group of 20…

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Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Net Politics Net Politics

June 14, 2011

TWE Remembers: Happy Flag Day!

American flags seen at the Washington Monument. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters) Happy Flag Day everyone. Two hundred and thirty-four years ago today, the Second Continental Congress adopted the de…

American flags seen at the Washington Monument. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge