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August 2, 2018

Refugees and Displaced Persons
The Humanitarian Crisis You Haven’t Heard About

The United Nations Refugee Agency reports that one person is forcibly displaced from their home every two seconds as a result of conflict or persecution. We have seen the photographs of Syrian refugee camps in Turkey and Lebanon, and read about Somali refugees flooding into Yemen. Worldwide, refugees—citizens who flee their own country for another—number more than 20 million. But that number is dwarfed by a more silent and devastating crisis: the over 40 million who are internally displaced. 

Nigeria-IDP-Camp-Maiduguri-Boko Haram

November 17, 2014

Conflict Prevention
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Obama on Proxies, and U.S.-China Military Relations

Remarks by President Obama at G20 Press Conference, White House, November 16, 2014. Obama: But we’re also very firm on the need to uphold core international principles. And one of those principles i…

Obama at G20

September 20, 2013

Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Benghazi, Syria, and China’s Aid

Art Swift, “For First Time, American’s Views of Russia Turn Negative,” Gallup, September 18, 2013. (3PA: More Americans, 74%, have an unfavorable view of Congress: http://bit.ly/18dXgS1.) Adm…

Attack on U.S. Consulate in Benghazi