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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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August 13, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Counting Cars to Measure Africa’s Middle Class
That Africa has a growing middle class has become conventional wisdom, and the prospect of a new and expanding consumer market excites investors. How to define the "middle class," to say nothing of h…
August 22, 2013
United States
Middle East Matters This Week: Alleged Syrian Chemical Weapons Use, Mubarak Leaves Prison in Egypt
Significant Developments Syria. French foreign minister Laurent Fabius called today for a forceful international response to reports that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons outside Damascus ye…
January 17, 2020
Election 2020
Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: The Seventh Democratic Debate
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential challengers are saying about foreign policy. This week: the Democrats debate in Des Moines, the New York Times interviews the candidates, and two new poll…
January 21, 2011
Friday File: Obama 2.0
President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle examine the bible used for his swearing-in ceremony in Washington. (Poll New/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. President Obama has reached the halfway po…
July 28, 2011
Economic Crises
Global Aftershocks of a U.S. Debt Default
A protracted debt default would have serious global repercussions, but even without a default, a likely downgrade of U.S. debt and the absence of a fiscal reform plan are weakening the U.S. and unset…