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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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March 27, 2017
United States
Bill Maher Makes Us Dumber: How Ignorance, Fear and Stupid Pop-Culture Clichés Shape Americans’ View of the Middle East
Americans used to be just ignorant about Muslims and the Middle East. Now we're also fearful, stupid and wrong.
September 28, 2011
Fossil Fuels
Do America’s Future Jobs Lie in Traditional Energy?
Joel Kotkin has a provocative essay in Forbes that claims to show how booming extractive industries, led by oil and gas, have been cranking out massive numbers of high paying jobs over the past five …
May 24, 2021
Israel
Palestinian Politics After the Gaza Conflict
Can politics replace violence and terror?
April 11, 2013
Middle East and North Africa
Will Fayyad Resign?
Reuters reports that "Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad offered his resignation to President Mahmoud Abbas on Wednesday following a rift between the two men over government policy...." Fayyad …
April 5, 2013
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Lebanon, Iran, Syria, and Israel-Palestine
Significant Developments Lebanon. Tamam Salam, a Lebanese member of Parliament and former minister of culture, has emerged as the consensus candidate to become Lebanon’s next prime minister. Lebanes…
