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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 1, 2019
North Korea
Trump-Kim DMZ Meeting: Is Kim Jong-un Foil, Friend, or Foe?
Without proper preparations, what can a handshake at the DMZ deliver?
February 29, 2012
Human Rights
Syria: The Limits of Diplomacy
Below is the first installment in a series of three posts looking specifically at the prevailing debates on Syria and what to do about the situation there. In mid January, I wrote a piece on The Atl…
June 15, 2011
Defense and Security
GOP Foreign Policy Divisions
Well, I was wrong about Monday night’s GOP debate being the no foreign policy news debate. The debate touched on foreign policy only briefly, and none of the candidates said anything he or she ha…
August 29, 2012
Politics and Government
Morsi Gets a Pass
It has certainly been an interesting few weeks in Egypt. Just as I was taking off for vacation, President Mohammed Morsi had consolidated his power by ousting the military’s senior command, firing t…
September 4, 2006
Economics
Let me turn the Labor day microphone over to those (closet) radicals at PIMCO
Corporate profits as a share of GDP are at a half-century high, while real wages are struggling to stay above the zero line. Make no mistake, … this recovery has been a boom for capital, not for lab…