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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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April 19, 2024
United States
Election 2024: Donald Trump Declines to Fight Aid to Ukraine
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Donald Trump has chosen to stand aside as the House of Representatives moves to vote on aid to Ukra…
April 12, 2024
China
China’s New Currency Peg
The peg that shall not be named, and all the trouble that creates.
December 5, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Arthur Chaskalson: An Architect of Democratic South Africa
Lawyers can be improbable heroes, but Arthur Chaskalson was one. He used the law to hobble apartheid and subsequently helped author a post-apartheid legal system that subordinated the parliament to …
January 10, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
TWE Remembers: Sen. Arthur Vandenberg’s Conversion to Internationalism
In a post earlier today, I mentioned that Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-MI), a leading isolationist voice on Capitol Hill in the years before World War II, dismissed the Ludlow Amendment as a terrib…
December 19, 2023
Education
U.S. Campuses and the Problem of Antisemitism
The "DEI" bureaucracies in U.S. colleges are failing to protect Jewish students from a wave of antisemitism. The right reaction is to recognize how pernicious they are, not to plead that Jewish stude…
June 22, 2023
United States
Meet Doug Burgum, Republican Presidential Candidate
The North Dakota governor is a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.
December 1, 2023
United States
Ten Anniversaries to Note in 2024
As 2023 comes to a close, here are ten notable historical anniversaries to mark in 2024.
