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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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January 27, 2012
Immigration and Migration
Debating Amnesty and Immigration Policy
Yesterday I had an exchange with my CFR colleague, Ed Husain (who has a fantastic blog, "The Arab Street,"), about my last post on Mitt Romney’s "self-deportation" plan. I wanted to post it here, to …
April 30, 2020
China
Assessing the Early Response to Beijing’s Pandemic Diplomacy
Responses to China’s post-COVID overtures are largely falling along pre-existing political fault lines.
June 20, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
Segovia: A New Player in Cash Transfers
For several years now I’ve been following the progress of an innovative new philanthropy: GiveDirectly. Its cofounders, Michael Faye and Paul Niehaus, started the organization in 2008 while doing the…
August 23, 2018
United Kingdom
Jeremy Corbyn's Cynical Anti-Semitism
There are about 260,000 to 280,000 Jews in the United Kingdom, and about 2.8 million Muslims--ten times as many, or more. So what? So this gives us a further insight into the anti-Semitism of Labo…
November 8, 2012
United States
Middle Eastern Reactions to President Obama’s Reelection
“It made my day… I and my friends expected war if Romney won.” – Sima, a businesswoman in Tehran “President Obama will press for human rights and democracy to leave his marks in history…Also, the re…
