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October 16, 2012

United States
TWE Remembers: The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (Cuban Missile Crisis)

One of the first decisions that President John F. Kennedy made when he learned of the Soviet missiles in Cuba was to assemble a small group of senior administration officials to give him advice. That…

President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExCom) regarding the crisis in Cuba on October 29, 1962.  (Cecil Stoughton. White House Photographs. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston)

January 14, 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa
Some Good News From South Africa

It is unduly gloomy in sunny South Africa. The national currency, the rand, is falling; the economy is hardly growing at all; the Zuma administration appears mired in corruption and mismanagement. Th…

Cape Town Sunrise

October 30, 2020

Cybersecurity
Cyber Week in Review: October 30, 2020

U.S. Treasury Department sanctions Russia’s CNIIHM; China cracks down on mobile browsers; Australia, Japan, and the United States to jointly fund Palau undersea telecoms cable; Georgia county electio…

A voting booth is prepared.

November 10, 2021

United States
Happy 246th Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!

The United States Marine Corps Marks 246 years of service. 

Marines

May 29, 2018

Canada
Is Canada Back? Trudeau’s Peacekeeping Promises Are Not Enough

Trudeau’s pledged UN peacekeeping contributions are an important step toward fulfilling his foreign policy promises, but if he is serious about renewing Canada’s leadership in peacekeeping, it is not…

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, New York on September 19, 2016.