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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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November 11, 2011
United States
The Departure of Dennis Ross
The announcement that Dennis Ross is leaving his post creates a serious problem for the Obama administration. Ross has spent decades working on the "peace process" and knew almost every influential …
January 8, 2018
World Order
Trump and Wilson's Ghost: The Fourteen Points Turn 100 year
In an op-ed recently published in the Hill, I contrast President Donald J. Trump’s transactional and cynical diplomacy with President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, which turn one hundred today. …
March 30, 2015
United States
The Weirdness of Ross Douthat’s Pax Americana
Way back when before the 2008 presidential elections, some Democratic Party foreign policy operatives put together a series of seminars near Jacksonville, Florida at a place called White Oak Plantati…
April 2, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War on Germany
Presidents win elections by making promises to voters. But keeping those promises can prove impossible to do. Just ask Woodrow Wilson. He won reelection in November 1916 on a pledge to keep the Unite…
January 5, 2017
Afghanistan
How Many Bombs Did the United States Drop in 2016?
This blog post was coauthored with my research associate, Jennifer Wilson. [Note: This post was updated to reflect an additional strike in Yemen in 2016, announced by U.S. Central Command on Janu…
