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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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April 5, 2024
United States
Election 2024: China’s Efforts to Interfere in the U.S. Presidential Election
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: China is following Russia’s lead in meddling in the U.S. presidential election.
August 6, 2015
Cuba
John Kerry, George Shultz, and the Kerry Visit to Cuba
Secretary of State Kerry will visit Cuba soon--on August 14. Since the opening of diplomatic relations and of the Cuban embassy in Washington, what’s been going on in Cuba? More repression. There w…
December 31, 2010
United States
TWE Remembers: George C. Marshall
When I taught “American Foreign Policy” (30:061) at the University of Iowa (Go Hawkeyes!) students would occasionally ask me which American policymaker I most admired. I never knew whether the quest…
March 5, 2024
United States
Ten Facts About the State of the Union Address
President Biden will deliver the annual State of the Union address on Thursday night. Here are ten things you might not know about the tradition of having a president deliver an annual address.
September 19, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
George Washington on Debt and Taxes
The text of George Washington's Farewell Address. (Courtesy the National Archives) Earlier today I noted the 215th anniversary of George Washington’s Farewell Address. It is best remembered for what…
May 29, 2015
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016: George Pataki, GOP Presidential Candidate
Would you come out of retirement and put your record of never having lost an election on the line in a long-shot bid to be president? George Pataki is doing just that. The three-time governor of New …
