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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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June 24, 2011
International Organizations
Half-Baked: The UN’s Annual Global Drug Report
Drug addicts in Managua, Nicaragua (Oswaldo Rivas/ Courtesy Reuters). On Thursday, the United Nations launched its annual World Drug Report. This year’s report comes four decades after President Ric…
March 29, 2005
United States
Too big to behave rashly
According to Andrew Samwick, the world’s central banks are too big to behave rashly. As he puts it: "We’re too big an economy, and our creditors’ portfolio holdings are simply too large for them to …
March 15, 2012
Israel
Ugly Israelis?
I rarely write about Israel. It’s important politically, but intellectually for me a bit of a bore. What more can be said about the country that has not already been said, especially the Arab-Israel…
July 6, 2005
China
Worrying about debt to China
Jesse Eisinger has a nice Long and Short column exploring CNOOC’s bid for Unocal in the Wall Street Journal. I liked this quote from Lehman’s Ethan Harris:The Cnooc bid "strikes people that we really…
October 17, 2016
Development
For the People and By the People: Shaping Norms for the Internet of Things
Susan Ariel Aaronson is a research professor and cross-disciplinary fellow at George Washington University. Ethan Wham is social media consultant and a member of the greater Washington, DC chapter of…
