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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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July 26, 2013
Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: CIA in Pakistan, Syria, Special Ops in Trans-Sahara
Kathy Gannon and Sebastian Abbot, Criticism Alters US Drone Program in Pakistan, ABC News, July 25, 2013. The CIA has been instructed to be more cautious with its attacks, limiting them to high-valu…
December 27, 2017
United States
Ten American Foreign Policy Influentials Who Died in 2017
As 2017 comes to a close, here are ten influential U.S. foreign policy figures who passed away this year.
January 16, 2007
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
The Washington Post really doesn’t like Social Security …
Best I can tell, Social Security is in the best financial shape of any federal program. It is in far better future shape than Medicare. And it is in way better shape than the portion of the govern…
August 19, 2019
Election 2020
Meet Pete Buttigieg, Democratic Presidential Candidate
Update: Pete Buttigieg announced on March 1, 2020, that he was ending his campaign. Fact can be more interesting than fiction. In 2000, a high school senior won the John F. Kennedy Presidential Li…
November 17, 2014
Infrastructure
Dumb Government and Smart Government
There were two stories in the paper over the weekend – both of them local to the Washington, DC area – that perfectly captured the difference between smart government spending and dumb government spe…
