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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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January 31, 2014
United States
You Might Have Missed: Afghanistan, Targeted Killings, and U.S. Policy Priorities
Alice K. Ross, “Leaked official document records 330 drone strikes in Pakistan,” Bureau of Investigative Journalism, January 29, 2014. The Bureau is today publishing a leaked official document that …
July 31, 2014
Wars and Conflict
TWE Remembers: World War I Poetry
“I think that I shall never see / A poem as lovely as a tree.” Most Americans know the opening lines of the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer. What they probably don’t know is that Kilmer was a war hero—t…
January 24, 2014
China
Friday Asia Update: Top Five Stories for the Week of January 24, 2014
Darcie Draudt, Charles McClean, Will Piekos, and Sharone Tobias look at the top stories in Asia this week. 1. Report reveals that several of China’s top leaders hold trillions in offshore accounts. …
August 11, 2014
The Cease Fire That Broke Itself
The Spanish language uses reflexive verbs more than English, and one of my favorite has always been "se cayo." Roughly translated that means "it fell itself down" or "it broke itself." The closest E…