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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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May 27, 2011
China
Latin America’s Growing Middle Class
Thousands of commuters pack the Se metro subway station in Sao Paulo (Paulo Whitaker / Courtesy Reuters). Two recent studies look at the rise of Latin America’s middle class. The first, by ECLAC (Ec…
December 6, 2013
United States
Weekend Reading: America’s Quagmire?, an Egyptian Thanksgiving, and Foreign Workers No Longer in Saudi
Ammar Abdulhamid looks at the consequences of U.S. inaction in Syria and elsewhere. Maged Atiya remembers his first Thanksgiving. Brian Whitaker on the underreported expulsion of foreign workers in…
April 24, 2019
Venezuela
Trump’s Misguided Policies Are a Gift to Venezuela’s Maduro
Punishing allies won’t help to rally international support for the restoration of democracy.
March 1, 2019
Sub-Saharan Africa
Trump’s Africa Strategy Creates U.S. Business Opportunities in Africa
The Trump Administration’s recent announcement of its Africa strategy offers renewed opportunities for the development of closer economic ties between the United States and Africa under a set of business-driven initiatives outlined as “Prosper Africa” in a December speech by National Security Adviser John Bolton.
May 29, 2015
Egypt
Weekend Reading: Egypt’s Money Pit, Morocco’s Jewish Community, and Saudi Civil Society
Nizar Manek and Jeremy Hodge chase after $9.4 billion worth of secret accounts and special funds hidden away by top Egyptian officials. Evelyn Crunden examines how one group in Morocco remembers and…
