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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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March 7, 2014
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Cyberattacks, Asia Pivot, and the U.S. Military and Human Rights
Zachary Fryer-Biggs, “DoD Official: Asia Pivot ‘Can’t Happen’ Due to Budget Processes,” Defense News, March 4, 2014. “Right now, the pivot is being looked at again, because candidly it can’t happen,…
July 10, 2005
China
Has a slowing Chinese economy eliminated domestic pressure for a renminbi revaluation?
Alan Greenspan told Senators Schumer and Graham that China would soon make its currency regime more flexible, and that they should hold off. They no doubt took "flexible" to mean "let its currency ap…
November 4, 2011
Friday File: Remembering the Iranian Hostage Crisis
Letter from President Jimmy Carter to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini regarding the release of American hostages, dated November 6, 1979. (Courtesy the National Archives) Above the Fold. Thirty-two year…
April 8, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Who Will Succeed Bob Gates as Secretary of Defense?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Admiral Mike Mullen enter the auditorium before Oabma's speech about the conflict in Libya at the National Defense University on March 28, 2011. (Larry Down…
October 16, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: Learning More About the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union closer to nuclear war than any other event during the Cold War. President John F. Kennedy put the odds of war at “somewhere bet…
