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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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July 31, 2014
Austria
TWE Remembers: The Assassination of Jean Jaurès
Yesterday’s post noted that the 1916 Black Tom explosion raises a great “what if” question: would Woodrow Wilson have lost his bid for re-election that fall if Americans had known that German saboteu…
May 7, 2012
Defense and Security
Hello, François Hollande: President of France
Streaks are made to be broken. After seventeen years on the outside looking in, a Socialist Party candidate has finally returned to the French presidency. François Hollande defeated Nicolas Sarkozy b…
March 21, 2024
United States
Women Voters’ Pivotal Role in Electing the Next U.S. President
The 2024 U.S. presidential election could be the first election clearly decided by women, in a landmark assertion of power by the majority.
October 13, 2014
Climate Change
New Nobel Economics Winner Jean Tirole on Energy, Climate, and Environment
Jean Tirole was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences today “for his analysis of market power and regulation”. It shouldn’t come as a surprise, then, that he’s written a lot about ene…
February 6, 2014
The World Next Week: Francois Hollande Visits Washington, Egypt Marks the Anniversary of Mubarak’s Ouster, and the Chicago Auto Show Opens
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed French president Francois Hollande’s upcoming visit to Washington, the third anniversary of Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in Egypt, and the Chi…
September 22, 2023
Ukraine
The President’s Inbox Recap: Ukraine’s 2023 Counteroffensive
The war in Ukraine grinds on with no end in sight.
