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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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January 24, 2023
United States
The Violent Far-Right Terrorist Threat to American Law Enforcement
In addition to minority communities and those on the political left, far-right and white supremacist extremism threatens violence against law enforcement as well.
December 15, 2015
Europe and Eurasia
Lessons in Cleantech Success from Scandinavia (Pt. 2): The Importance of the Danish Manufacturing Revival
This post is co-written by Ben Armstrong and Varun Sivaram. Ben is a Ph.D. Candidate at MIT focused on Political Economy and a researcher at the MIT Governance Lab. In Part 1 of this series, we pose…
May 16, 2014
United States
This Week: Syria’s Friends, Libya’s Military, and Iran’s Negotiations
Significant Developments Syria. The Friends of Syria group met in London yesterday and issued a communique that denounced Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s plan to hold elections on June 3 and agre…
July 29, 2005
Economics
More trade with Central America, less with China?
Is that the deal that brought wavering Republicans from textile states on board? We will see. But the House speaker, J. Dennis Hastert, told him they needed his vote anyway. If he switched from "nay…
February 5, 2006
United States
Is national income accounting biased against the US?
In a fake news classic, Rob Corddry and Jon Stewart of the Daily Show once pondered how to report "the facts" when "the facts themselves were biased." Michael Mandel seems to think the facts are bia…