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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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December 19, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012 Roundup: Gingrich Down and Paul Up
Ron Paul and Newt Gingrich during the Republican Party presidential candidates debate in Sioux City, Iowa on December 15, 2011. (Jim Young/courtesy Reuters) What the polls giveth, the polls taketh a…
January 9, 2012
United States
Hating Democracy in the Middle East?
Has the Washington foreign policy establishment disavowed democracy in the Middle East? According to Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald the answer is a resounding yes. Greenwald, a lawyer by training and …
January 20, 2012
Politics and Government
Friday File: Is It Time to Intervene in Syria?
Above the Fold. Anyone who watched last night’s GOP presidential debate from Charleston, South Carolina could be forgiven for concluding that the United States has no pressing problems overseas. Not …
May 11, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, and "Big Boy Pants"
Nick Paumgarten, “The World of Surveillance,” The New Yorker, May 14, 2012. Patrick Egan, president of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association for Unmanned Systems International: "The first ti…
September 7, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Targeted Killings, and National Security Threats
“Interview with President Obama,” Fox 19, September 6, 2012. Q: Well let me ask then also about the so-called presidential kill list that has gotten a lot of attention…and on that list have been U.S…
