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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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July 9, 2018
China
U.S.-China Trade War: How We Got Here
Background reading for the trade war with China.
February 25, 2011
Politics and Government
Friday File: Washington Braces for the Showdown over the Government Shutdown
Senate Budget Committee Ranking member Jeff Sessions and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan speak in response to President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2010 budget in Washington. (Jason Reed/cou…
February 4, 2016
Thailand
Democratic Regression and the Rise of Islamic State-Linked Militants in Southeast Asia
Read Part 1 here. Part 2 After Jakarta’s initial successes against militants such as those from Jemaah Islamiah, a new generation of Islamists began to emerge in Southeast Asia in the late 2000s a…
April 30, 2014
United States
“Still Ours to Lead:” Bruce Jones Explains Why the World Still Looks to the United States
Manifestoes about U.S. “decline,” have become a publishing juggernaut. But this literature is demolished in a beautifully written, persuasive new book from Bruce Jones, the Brookings Institution seni…
June 10, 2014
Development
Re-Engineering the Earth’s Climate: No Longer Science Fiction
By continuing to spew greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, humanity is conducting the largest uncontrolled scientific experiment in the Earth’s 4.5 billion year history. The most recent assessment r…
