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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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February 21, 2011
TWE Celebrates Presidents’ Day Because It Is the Day of Presidents
President George W. Bush meets with former Presidents and President-elect Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 2009. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters) Being president o…
September 12, 2011
Economics
How Guatemala’s New Government Should Take on the Security Challenge
A man holds a symbol of the Patriot Party during a political rally in Solola (Jorge Lopez/Courtesy Reuters). Front-runner Otto Pérez Molina won 36% of the vote in first round of Guatemala’s presiden…
October 11, 2011
Human Rights
Venezuela’s Presidential Race
Members of Venezuela's militia and supporters of Venezuela's President Chavez attend a ceremony in Caracas (Jorge Silva/Courtesy Reuters). Today, chances are Hugo Chávez will face off against Henriq…
December 9, 2011
You Might Have Missed: Drone Surveillance and Technology, and U-2 Wreckage
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev examines the wreckage of the downed U.S. U-2 spy plane in 1960. - Gregory W. Pedlow and Donald E. Welzenbach, “The CIA and U-2 Program, 1954-1974” (PDF), Central Int…
December 20, 2011
Human Rights
Guest Post: Guatemala’s Ex-President Asks About Genocide Trial
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt leaves the public prosecutor’s office in Guatemala City (Jorge Lopez/Courtesy Reuters). This is a guest post by Natalie Kitroeff, a res…
