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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 6, 2017
Wars and Conflict
Remembering America’s Entry into the Great War
Today marks the one hundredth anniversary of Congress declaring war on Germany, thereby thrusting the United States into the Great War, or what we know today as World War I. The vote was a major turn…
May 23, 2016
United States
Will Killing Mullah Mansour Work?
On Saturday, the Pentagon released a remarkable statement: “Today, the Department of Defense conducted an airstrike that targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansur.” Soon after, a tweet from the Office of…
July 15, 2015
Technology and Innovation
Five Things I Learned About the Future of Solar Power and the Electricity Grid
Nestled in the foothills of the Rockies in Golden, Colorado, the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) was established in 1977 to help bring new energy technologies to mark…
May 7, 2015
Wars and Conflict
TWE Remembers: The Sinking of the Lusitania
Asking “what if” is a popular parlor game. Seldom, however, do we ever get an answer, and certainly not almost immediately. King George V of Britain is a rare exception. On the morning of May 7, 1915…
January 21, 2015
China
China, Japan, and the Twenty-One Demands
Compared with the high-profile national Memorial Day for the Nanjing Massacre last month, the date January 18 passed uneventfully. Chinese media appeared to have forgotten that one hundred years ago,…
