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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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April 11, 2011
Politics and Government
Campaign 2012: Hello Mitt Romney, GOP Presidential Candidate
Mitt Romney shakes hands after speaking to an audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in Washington on February 11, 2011. (Larry Downing/courtesy Reuters) The United States …
May 3, 2012
Defense and Security
The World Next Week: France Votes, Putin Returns, North Korea May Test, and Clinton Visits India and Bangladesh
The World Next Week podcast is up. Bob McMahon and I discussed the second and final round of France’s presidential elections; Vladimir Putin’s return as president of Russia; a possible North Korean n…
June 29, 2016
United States
Brexit, Experts, and Trump: Is Policy Expertise Still Relevant in a Populist Age?
Among the main casualties of the populist wave now surging through Western democracies is respect for policy expertise. Michael Gove, justice secretary in the UK government and cheerleader for Brexit…
February 19, 2016
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: Tough Talk in South Carolina
South Carolina looks to be living up to its reputation as a rough-and-tumble place for politics. The GOP candidates have been going after each other with a vengeance in the hopes of gaining an advant…
December 4, 2015
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: Terrorism Concerns Grow
Last month I wrote that domestic policy issues were trumping foreign policy ones in the minds of the American voters. In one poll, eight in ten Americans said that domestic issues would have the bigg…
