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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 28, 2024
United States
Summer Migration Uptick Likely to Inflame U.S. Politics, Plus Brazil’s Risky Bet on Soy
Migration will rise this summer, inflaming U.S. politics; Brazil’s risky bet on soy.
February 27, 2014
Cuba
Huber Matos, R.I.P.
Huber Matos, a great hero of the struggle for freedom in Cuba died today at age 95. Matos was a revolutionary comandante in the Cuban revolution, a leader of the struggle against the Batista dictato…
June 25, 2013
Edward Snowden and Presidential Power
This morning on CBS News, Rep. Paul Ryan discussed the Obama administration’s efforts to compel Russia to extradite Edward Snowden, former contract employee for the National Security Agency (NSA), to…
April 24, 2020
COVID-19
The States and Reopening Under COVID-19: Why We Need North American Cooperation
This post is coauthored by Laurie Trautman, the director of the Border Policy Research Institute at Western Washington University, and a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center; and Edward Alden, …
March 5, 2024
Ukraine
The President’s Inbox Recap: Year Three of the Ukraine War
February 24 marked the beginning of the third year of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
February 25, 2007
Financial Markets
The cranes of Dubai. Are they the answer to Edward Hugh’s question?
I think anyone who visits Dubai right now is bound to be dumbstruck by the sheer scale of the construction. It, quite honestly, puts anything I saw in China in early 2005 to shame. To the naked ey…