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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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March 19, 2010
Japan
Japan Hearing on Capitol Hill
This week I testified in front of the House Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Environment on the U.S.-Japan relationship. Judging by the Japanese press coverage, it was c…
April 20, 2012
Education
Policy Initiative Spotlight: Louisiana’s Educational Overhaul
Today's "Policy Initiative Spotlight" focuses on the sweeping education reforms taking place in the state of Louisiana, which is fast becoming a kind of national laboratory for proponents of choice-b…
June 18, 2012
United States
Targeted Killings and Congressional Oversight
Late Friday afternoon, the Obama administration marginally pulled back the curtain on targeted killings conducted by the U.S. military—but not those carried out by the CIA—in Somalia and Yemen. Under…
July 23, 2012
United States
National Security Leaks and Iranian Revenge
On June 1, 2012, the New York Times featured a remarkable work of journalism by David Sanger that opened with the following revelation: “From his first months in office, President Obama ordered incr…
July 26, 2012
United States
National Security Leaks and the White House
Every administration suffers from leaks of classified information. Given the size of the government and the large number of people who have access to information that is not only highly classified bu…