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August 13, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Rick Perry, GOP Presidential Candidate
Texas Governor Rick Perry delivers remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington on February 11, 2011. (Jonathan Ernst/courtesy Reuters) For seventeen of the past forty-eigh…
August 21, 2015
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016: John Kasich, GOP Presidential Candidate
Ohio holds the title of “Mother of Presidents.” Eight of them were born, raised, or lived in Ohio at the time of their election. But the last president to hail from Ohio was Warren G. Harding, who wa…
August 6, 2012
Egypt
Sinai Again
In light of Sunday’s events in which a dozen Egyptian policemen were killed near the Rafah border in addition to ongoing violence in Gaza, I am re-posting three pieces I have written on Sinai over th…
May 4, 2016
Energy and Environment
Beyond Climate Confusion: Why Both Energy Innovation and Deployment Matter
I have a new essay in the May/June issue of Foreign Affairs—“The Clean Energy Revolution: Fighting Climate Change with Innovation”—which I co-authored with Teryn Norris, a former advisor at the Depar…
December 28, 2016
United States
Ten American Foreign Policy Influentials Who Died in 2016
Year’s end is a time for taking stock, counting successes, and assessing failures. It is also a time for remembering those who are no longer with us. Here are ten Americans who died in 2016 who throu…
October 26, 2005
United States
What to say when the markets are listening to Stephen Jen?
The Economist's Buttonwood struggles with something I have also struggled with:Stephen "Interest rate and growth differentials, not current account deficits" Jen has basically been right on the dolla…
September 29, 2011
Admiral Michael Mullen: Farewell and Thank You
U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen testifies at the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill on February 2, 2010 (Jim Young/Courtesy Reuters). Tomorrow, th…
August 7, 2019
Election 2020
Meet Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic Presidential Candidate
Update: Kirsten Gillibrand announced on August 28, 2019, that she was ending her campaign. It has been a while since Americans have elected successive presidents from the same state. Not since Nov…
February 14, 2014
International Organizations
Spain’s Welcome Retreat on Universal Jurisdiction
Coauthored with Claire Schachter, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program. By voting Tuesday to curb its judges’ authority to exercise universal jurisdicti…
April 15, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Pathway to Peace or Mangled Mission in Libya?
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy greets Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron at the Elysee Palace in Paris on April 13, 2011. (Philippe Wojazer/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Barack Obama, Da…
