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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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November 14, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
The Emperor Has Too Many Clothes: Adjusting America’s Military Spending to Reality
Congressman Barney Frank discusses the Obama administration's strategy and current level of spending on national defense. This meeting was part of the C. Peter McColough series on International Econ…
November 14, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
The Emperor Has Too Many Clothes: Adjusting America's Military Spending to Reality
Congressman Barney Frank discusses the Obama administration's strategy and current level of spending on national defense.
May 22, 2009
Afghanistan
Nourishing Afghanistan’s Agricultural Sector
International actors are redoubling efforts to restore Afghanistan’s agriculture sector and weaken the massive opium trade that helps fund the Taliban. But competing strategies and corruption could s…
November 26, 2005
Economics
Kansas is flat, the world is not …
To paraphrase the New Economist, the Financial Times must think the world is flat. They just gave Tom Friedman the inaugural Financial Times/ Goldman Sachs book prize last week - for a book based on…
October 9, 2014
Energy and Environment
The Age of Extinction: Can Anything Be Done to Save Our Planet’s Biodiversity?
In a world of crises from Ebola to Syria, it’s easy to overlook slow-motion calamities. Both the U.S. government and the mainstream media are vulnerable to this myopia, the former in thrall to the ty…
