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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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July 25, 2017
Corruption
What Latin America Can Learn From Past Anticorruption Success
As Latin America reflects on its current wave of anticorruption successes—including the arrest of former Guatemalan president, Odebrecht prosecutions in Peru, and the ongoing Lava Jato cleanup in Bra…
June 30, 2011
Immigration and Migration
Reads of the Week
A U.S. Border Patrol agent checks an area under a bridge crossing between the United States and Mexico (Eric Thayer/Courtesy Reuters). Starting today, at the end of each week I will post a weekly ro…
September 14, 2012
Education
Techonomy and the Future of Cities: What I Learned
I spent a fascinating day this week at the Techonomy conference in Detroit, and came away with a new appreciation for why I should get out of Washington more than I do. The conference, the brainchild…
April 2, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War on Germany
Presidents win elections by making promises to voters. But keeping those promises can prove impossible to do. Just ask Woodrow Wilson. He won reelection in November 1916 on a pledge to keep the Unite…
September 10, 2021
United States
Seven Reflections Worth Reading About 9/11
With the twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on Saturday, we recommend sources for better understanding 9/11 and its aftermath. Today: seven reflections about 9/11.
