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September 9, 2011

Defense and Security
Friday File: Remembering 9/11

  New York City Fire Department Battalion Commander Tom Currao raises a flag outside the World Trade Center construction site at the 9/11 Memorial Visitors Center in New York on September 9, 2…

New York Fire Department Battalion Commander Tom Currao raises a flag outside the World Trade Center construction site at the 9/11 Memorial Visitors Center in New York September 9, 2011. The flag, which flew overseas during Operation Enduring Freedom, was accepted by museum curators into their collection. National and city leaders will commemorate on Sunday the ten-year anniversary of the attacks of September 11, 2001 with a ceremony unveiling a memorial and museum. REUTERS/Brian Snyder
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

November 22, 2011

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Down and Out in Durban: End of the Line for Kyoto?

Activists from the WWF demonstrate on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Conference COP16 in Cancun (Gerardo Garcia/Courtesy Reuters). As delegates from nearly 200 countries prepare to descend o…

Down and Out in Durban: End of the Line for Kyoto?
Blog Post by Stewart M. Patrick The Internationalist

February 10, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: Military Intervention, Drones, and al-Qaeda.

Shaun Waterman, “Drones Over U.S. Get OK By Congress,” Washington Times, February 7, 2012. The FAA Reauthorization Act, which President Obama is expected to sign, also orders the Federal Aviati…

Explosion Afghanistan
Blog Post by Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

March 21, 2012

Trade
Morning Brief: Task Force Issues Report on Education Challenges, Reforms

The CFR Independent Task Force on U.S. Education Reform and National Security released its report describing the threats posed to U.S. prosperity, security, and preeminence by a failing K-12 educatio…

Teacher Kennis Wong points to Chinese characters on the board at Broadway Elementary School in Venice, Los Angeles (Lucy Nicholson /Courtesy Reuters)
Blog Post by Renewing America Staff Renewing America

June 26, 2012

Education
Foreign Languages and U.S. Economic Competitiveness

Americans are lousy at learning foreign languages. We all know the historical reasons – the United States was long a big, largely monolingual country with a fairly self-sufficient economy. U.S. econo…

Teacher Kennis Wong points to Chinese characters on a board at Broadway Elementary School in Los Angeles, California (Lucy Nicholson/Courtesy Reuters).
Blog Post by Edward Alden Renewing America