Council of Councils
Think Global Health
Online Store
Introduction
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…
43 Results for:
Filters
October 22, 2011
Middle East and North Africa
Obama and Libya: Hold the Triumphalism, Please
After the death of Muammar al Gaddafi, Administration spokesmen and those journalists who pretty much take dictation from them have been triumphant. This was, they have said, final proof of the exqui…
May 7, 2012
Fossil Fuels
Oil and Gas Euphoria Is Getting Out of Hand
The boom in U.S. oil and gas production has spawned another gusher of increasingly hyperbolic claims about its revolutionary consequences. These are not just musings from the fringe; they’re increasi…
November 15, 2017
Zimbabwe
Military Coup in Zimbabwe Remains Bloodless
The military seems to be firmly in control of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harrare, after what appears to have been a military coup. President Robert Mugabe and his wife, Grace, remain safe at home.
June 21, 2013
Iran
Can Iran Be Stopped?
Over the last two years many of those--including me--who urged American intervention in Syria have been called various names: neocons, dangerous idealists, adventurers, fools who were forgetting the …
November 4, 2013
Turkey
Turkey: Hello, I Must Be Going
I first arrived in Turkey on a chilly, gray afternoon in early October 1992. I had been living in Jerusalem studying Arabic and Hebrew—this was during my Arab-Israeli conflict stage—when the guy wit…
