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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 2, 2024
Political History and Theory
The President’s Inbox Recap: Henry Wallace and the Origins of the Cold War
The post-World War II era would have looked very different had Henry Wallace become president.
January 30, 2024
United States
Henry Wallace and the Origins of the Cold War, With Benn Steil
Benn Steil, a senior fellow and director of international economics at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how Henry Wallace might have changed history had he and not Harry Truman succeed…
February 8, 2024
United States
The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy
Modern vice presidents can trace much of their political influence to the broad reforms that Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale made to the second-highest elected office in the late 1970s.
January 9, 2024
Political History and Theory
The World That Wasn’t
A dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace—a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of U.S. and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Col…
March 17, 2022
Foreign Policy
Outdated Cold War Analogies Could Lead the West Astray
The applicability of the Truman Doctrine to the West's present confrontation with Russia is constrained by the realities of a different time, seventy-five years ago.
September 18, 2009
International Organizations
Previewing Pittsburgh: The G20 and the Global Economy
Watch Edwin M. Truman and David Wessel as they preview the upcoming G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh and its significance for a world struggling to recover from financial crisis
December 1, 2023
United States
Ten Anniversaries to Note in 2024
As 2023 comes to a close, here are ten notable historical anniversaries to mark in 2024.
