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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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September 10, 2014
United States
Understanding ISIS’s Apocalyptic Appeal
By Ella Lipin President Barack Obama’s expected announcement today of a long-term military campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) follows an unusually grizzly few months of terr…
February 2, 2012
Middle East and North Africa
Remembering the Hama Massacre
Today marks thirty years since the start of President Hafez al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on the city of Hama in Syria. I asked Ella Lipin, a Fulbright grantee last year in Cairo who lived and worked i…
April 3, 2023
United States
Asa Hutchinson: A Distinguished Career in Domestic Counterterrorism
The veteran Republican politician tackled the violent far right in the 1980s, with considerable success.
February 3, 2012
Politics and Government
Friday File: Is a U.S. Military Strike on Iran Nearing?
Above the Fold. The rhetoric on Iran certainly heated up this week. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta noted ominously on Sunday “if we have to do it, we will do it” when asked what the United States …
May 20, 2011
Weekend Reading
Egyptian women walk past a policeman in the newly renovated historical street of Elmoez Lideen Ella in Old Cairo (Asmaa Waguih/Courtesy Reuters) The Maghreb Blog: Morocco’s Shaky Commitment to Re…
