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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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June 14, 2011
Politics and Government
Campaign 2012: Hello Michele Bachmann, GOP Presidential Candidate
Congresswoman Michele Bachmann speaks at a rally on Capitol Hill on March 31, 2011. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters) Michele Bachmann made some news at last night’s rather sedate GOP presidential …
December 15, 2014
Global
Ten Most Significant World Events in 2014
As 2014 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the past year.
April 26, 2013
United States
Sea Power in the Pacific, Drones in Lebanon, and America’s “Dirty Wars”
David C. Gompert, “Sea Power and American Interests in the Western Pacific,” Rand Corportation, to be published June 3, 2013, pp. 160-162. If we are indeed in for a change in the basic premise of s…
August 13, 2014
Fossil Fuels
A New Keystone XL Paper is Probably Wrong
I’ve been trying to avoid two things lately: Keystone XL and picking on shaky scientific papers. But a new paper on Keystone XL in Nature Climate Change has been generating a lot of buzz and reque…
February 24, 2012
Defense and Security
Friday File: Quran Burning and the End of the Afghan War
Above the Fold. The protests that have erupted across Afghanistan this week in the wake of the news that coalition forces burned several Qurans have laid bare the gulf that continues to exist, and ma…
