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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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March 3, 2011
United States
The Blame Game
The lobby of the CIA Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia (Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters) The blame game. It’s an old inside the Beltway tradition that too often spills into the 24 hour news …
February 20, 2015
Wars and Conflict
UN Reports Rising Attacks on Girls’ Education
Attacks on girls’ schools and female students have appeared in the headlines regularly in recent years, from the abduction of schoolgirls in Chibok, Nigeria, by Boko Haram to the assassination attemp…
June 20, 2013
Economics
Security Cooperation in Mexico
I was in Washington D.C. this past Tuesday to give testimony on U.S.-Mexico security cooperation at a Senate Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere and Global Narcotics Affairs’ hearing. You can read my …
May 18, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Race and the Development Paradigm
This is a guest post by Mora McLean, President Emerita of The Africa-America Institute. Some twenty years ago, Amartya Sen, spurred a major shift in development theory by making the case that per ca…
May 30, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: Eight More States Granted NCLB Waivers
The Washington Post reports that Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced eight more states received waivers from No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements. This brings the total number of states …
