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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 10, 2018
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Is Annexation of the West Bank Already Here?
My recent piece at Salon.com raised some hackles with my friend, former intern, and occasional coauthor, Michael Koplow. Michael is the policy director at the Israel Policy Forum, and he also writes …
February 28, 2013
The World Next Week: Kenyans Vote, Italy Awaits a Government, and the Sixtieth Anniversary of Stalin’s Death Is Marked
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed Kenyan elections, the scramble to assemble a new government in Italy, and the sixtieth anniversary of Stalin’s death. [audio: http://ww…
July 10, 2010
Trade
Korea Inter Pares? -- South Korea on the Global Stage
Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Jo Yong-Hak It’s been a long and frustrating (and bloody exhausting … ) seventeen months for American trade policy. But on the margins of last month’s G20 summit, Presiden…
August 6, 2014
Labor and Employment
Policy Initiative Spotlight: How Canada Lets Local Governments Pick Immigrants
Comprehensive U.S. immigration reform is dead. More than a year after the U.S. Senate passed its reform bill, the House has not voted on comprehensive reform. The upcoming mid-term elections will l…
April 9, 2012
Turkey
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, Meet General Kenan Evren
Last Wednesday was a big day in Turkey. General Kenan Evren, the leader of the September 12, 1980 coup d’etat, was charged in an Ankara courtroom with “acts against the forces of the state” during th…
