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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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October 15, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: The United States Discovers Soviet Missiles in Cuba
The phone call came at an inconvenient time for McGeorge Bundy. The forty-three year-old national security adviser was hosting a sendoff dinner for the new U.S. ambassador to France, Charles “Chip” B…
November 4, 2011
You Might Have Missed: Cyber Espionage, Somali Piracy, and a Letter from the Cold War
President John F. Kennedy, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy, and senior advisors gather around a television set. - Daily Press Briefing, “Kenya: Request for Blockade on Kismayo,” Department of State, N…
January 20, 2016
Elections and Voting
Five Foreign Policy Books the Next President Should Read
Inauguration Day is now exactly one year away. In 366 days—2016 is a Leap Year—one of the candidates now barnstorming Iowa and New Hampshire will take the oath of office. Everything will change the m…
October 20, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: JFK Fakes a Cold (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Five)
Have you ever faked an illness to get out of a meeting or to avoid an obligation? President John F. Kennedy can do you one better. He faked a cold on Saturday, October 20, the fifth day of the Cuban …
August 24, 2016
United States
Remembering the Vietnam "Coup Cable"
Things usually slow down in Washington in August. Congress goes into recess, and Washingtonians who can leave town do. But this predictable lull in government activity doesn’t mean that policymaking …
