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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 31, 2012
Sub-Saharan Africa
Charles Taylor Sentenced - a Step Forward?
In April, the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague found Charles Taylor guilty of many crimes against humanity related to his involvement with the civil war in Sierra Leone. (Taylor was not tr…
July 1, 2013
Education
Policy Initiative Spotlight: Adaptive Education
If many technology startups and established education firms have their way, the future of education will more closely resemble a one-on-one private tutor than a traditional schoolhouse classroom with…
June 7, 2017
State and Local Governments (U.S.)
Gearing Up the State Department for the Era of State- and City-Level Diplomacy
It might have been former Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley’s November 2011 trade delegation to India that first caught my attention. Former Washington Governor Chris Gregoire led another in 2012. …
December 21, 2012
Defense and Security
Why Is It So Hard to Cut Federal Spending?
The New York Times published a chart today that succinctly explains why it is so hard to cut the federal government’s spending: the programs that people want to cut don’t cost very much, and the prog…
April 19, 2012
Defense and Security
TWE Remembers: General Douglas MacArthur’s Speech to Congress
Americans love generals. We have elected twelve of them president. But for a president, generals can be an enormous pain—and a political threat. James K. Polk worried (rightly) that Winfield Scott wa…
