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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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December 21, 2011
Guest Post: Laurie Garrett on Man-Made Deadly Flu
Health workers pack dead chicken at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong December 21, 2011. Workers began culling 17,000 chickens at a wholesale poultry market in Hong Kong on Wednesday after a de…
August 28, 2023
Cybersecurity
There’s A Cop In My Pocket: Policymakers Need to Stop Advocating Surveillance by Default.
Encryption, cybersecurity, and technology policies, like the RESTRICT and EARN-IT Acts, with nonexistent tradeoffs address symptoms, not problems, and they do it badly.
December 8, 2023
Climate Change
Ten Most Significant World Events in 2023
As 2023 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the year.
March 20, 2012
Defense and Security
Lessons Learned: Tokyo Sarin Gas Attack
Technological advances increasingly mean that governments are no longer the only ones capable of inflicting mass destruction.
May 29, 2019
Nigeria
Strapped for Cash, Nigeria Plans to Close Some Embassies
Nigeria, the “Giant of Africa,” has a long history of diplomatic leadership. It was one of the founders of the African Union and of the Economic Community of West African States. It regularly occupie…
June 8, 2018
Nigeria
Nigerian Minister Warns Against Nigerian Citizens Seeking Asylum in Germany
Abika Dabiri-Erewa said many claims for asylum were spurious: “some who are from the East and West are saying they are running away from Boko Haram while others say they are gays and were having challenges expressing themselves in Nigeria.”
