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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 11, 2022
United States
Was It Worth It?
Dan asks a question that everyone who has ever signed up for military service has likely asked: was it worth it? His answer is worth reading.
April 5, 2023
Sub-Saharan Africa
It Matters How We Define the African Diaspora
The explicit incorporation of the African diaspora into U.S.-Africa policy risks segmenting the community into old and new, with important domestic and international consequences.
January 3, 2013
The 112th Congress: Maybe Not the Worst After All
Welcome to the 113th Congress. The conventional wisdom is that the 112th Congress, which has now been ushered out, was the worst in modern history, and that the political process is becoming ever mor…
January 24, 2017
Asia
How the Laos War Transformed the CIA
From 1961 until the early 1970s, the Central Intelligence Agency undertook, in Laos, what remains the largest covert operation in the history of the United States. Tiny Laos, which had not even exist…
August 20, 2021
Wars and Conflict
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Being in Combat
Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about the experience of war.
