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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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May 11, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Israel’s Nuclear Weapons, and "Big Boy Pants"
Nick Paumgarten, “The World of Surveillance,” The New Yorker, May 14, 2012. Patrick Egan, president of the Silicon Valley chapter of the Association for Unmanned Systems International: "The first ti…
March 22, 2016
Cuba
Burying Cuba
President Obama’s speech to the Cuban people today included many nice lines about democracy and human rights. But the ideological content was found in this line, early in the speech: "I have come he…
April 12, 2018
Cuba
The Latin American Summit Must Deal With Dictatorship in Cuba
The Latin American summit meeting in Lima, Peru this coming weekend occurs just a week before Raul Castro "steps aside" and Cuba has a new president. But consider this anomaly: Venezuelan president M…
April 19, 2016
Terrorism and Counterterrorism
Into Africa: The Islamic State’s Online Strategy and Violent Extremism in Africa
Military campaigns in Iraq and Syria have re-taken territory from the Islamic State and damaged it in other ways, including its ability to finance military operations. As counter-attacks continue in …
July 28, 2011
Economics
Reads of the Week: a New Peruvian President, a New U.S. Security Directive, and Some Old Lessons from Colombia
As President Ollanta Humala assumes office today, it looks as if he has chosen to emulate Lula rather than Chavez. His cabinet is full of moderates, and some even see it as leaning center-right. Whil…
