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April 19, 2011

United States
TWE Remembers: The Battle of Lexington and Concord

On April 19, 1775, the first shots of the American Revolution were fired at Lexington and Concord. Ralph Waldo Emerson captured the significance of that day in a poem he wrote for the July 4, 1837 ce…

Daniel Chester French’s Minuteman Statue in Concord, MA. (Detroit Publishing Company/courtesy the Library of Congress)

December 5, 2011

Sub-Saharan Africa
Robert Mugabe’s Health

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (R) listens as Finance Minister Tendai Biti delivers his budget speech in parliament in Harare, November 24, 2011. (Philimon Bulawayo/Courtesy Reuters) Succession …

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe (R) listens as Finance Minister Tendai Biti delivers his budget speech in parliament in Harare November 24, 2011 (Philimon Bulawayo/Courtesy Reuters)

July 13, 2016

Technology and Innovation
Zimbabwe and an “Arab Spring”

Zimbabwe is rapidly deteriorating, if not imploding. In the midst of a drought, estimates are that up to half of the rural population will face hunger or famine in the coming year. The economy is con…

Zimbabwe and an Arab Spring

January 23, 2007

Congresses and Parliaments
Cuba After Castro: The Future of U.S.-Cuba Relations

Representatives Jo Ann Emerson and Jim McGovern recently took part in a bipartisan congressional delegation to Cuba, the largest of its kind since 1959. Join them and Julia Sweig, author of the curre…

October 2, 2018

Technology and Innovation
Governing the Next Technological Revolution

With the perils of heedless innovation all too apparent, and with a new and potentially more transformative wave of technical advances in the pipeline, global movements to govern the next technologic…

Children touch the hands of the humanoid robot Roboy at the exhibition Robots on Tour in Zurich on March 9, 2013.