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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 16, 2018
United Nations
The UN's Automatic Majority Against Israel is Fraying
On June 13, the United Nations General Assembly voted once again to condemn Israel, this time for its actions against Hamas in Gaza when tens of thousands of Hamas supporters and terrorists stormed t…
June 28, 2016
Israel
Israel to Head UN Committee for the First Time: So Much for Isolation
The argument that Israel is becoming increasingly isolated in the world took another blow this month when--for the first time in the history of the United Nations and of Israel--the Israeli ambassado…
August 18, 2015
Asia
The Implications of Thura Shwe Mann’s Removal
Last week, Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) party leader Thura Shwe Mann, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, was abruptly removed as party chief, only months before Myanmar’s …
October 3, 2011
Iran
Samir Kuntar, Award Winner
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (L) speaks with released Lebanese prisoner Samir Kantar during a ceremony in Tehran January 29, 2009 (Courtesy REUTERS/Raheb Homavandi). Regimes, like individua…
November 11, 2022
United States
Was It Worth It?
Dan asks a question that everyone who has ever signed up for military service has likely asked: was it worth it? His answer is worth reading.
