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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 30, 2011
Politics and Government
Friday File: Farewell to Iowa
The U.S. and Iowa state flags fly at a rally for Mitt Romney in West Des Moines on December 30, 2011. (Brian Snyder/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. As the Roy Schneider character says at the start…
April 7, 2016
International Organizations
The Race to Be UN Secretary-General: Five Questions for the Candidates
The following is a guest post by Megan Roberts, associate director of the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Next week the United Nations G…
May 3, 2013
United States
Syrian Lethal Aid, Drones Over Yemen, and Isolationism
Nussaibah Younis, “Why Maliki Must Go,” New York Times, May 2, 2013. Given the two-year-old Syrian civil war escalating next door, a sectarian crisis and political collapse in Iraq would be a disast…
June 6, 2016
International Organizations
Let the Sunshine in: Increasing Transparency in UN Elections
The following is a guest post by Megan Roberts, associate director of the International Institutions and Global Governance program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Sunlight is the best disinfect…
August 15, 2011
Climate Change
Are the New CAFE Standards for Trucks Justified?
Megan McArdle and Mark Kleiman have been engaged in a little debate on their blogs over the merits of the new CAFE standards for medium and heavy duty vehicles that were announced last week. McArdle …