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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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February 4, 2011
Politics and Government
Friday File: Revolution and Reaction
Riot police clash with protesters in Cairo. (Goran Tomasevic/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. This week’s crackdown on anti-government protesters in Egypt makes clear that President Hosni Mubarak—o…
March 9, 2005
Emerging Markets
Brad DeLong covers the Argentine crisis, in one night
DeLong is clearly working his way through Paul Blustein’s book on Argentina. Martin Wolf has a column on Argentina’s restructuring in yesterday’s Financial Times, which I quite liked, for rather obv…
December 28, 2018
Global
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2018
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
September 11, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: Charles Lindbergh’s Des Moines Speech
September 11 is a black day in American history. But six decades before the planes flew into the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and crashed in a field in central Pennsylvania, it stood out as a shamefu…
April 11, 2013
United States
Funding Foreign Policy for National Security: Obama’s Civilian Power Budget
The Obama administration’s $3.8 trillion budget request to Congress, released Wednesday, calls for $47.8 billion in discretionary funding for the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for Internati…
