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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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April 19, 2013
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Spending on Overseas Bases, Drones over Boston, and Benghazi
Donna Cassata, “Report: US Footing Greater Bill for Overseas Bases,” Associated Press, April 17, 2013. The United States is footing more of the bill for overseas bases in Germany, Japan and South Ko…
May 4, 2015
Politics and Government
Campaign 2016: Carly Fiorina, GOP Presidential Candidate
Ten. That’s the number of successive presidents who have come to the White House having previously held elective office. Carly Fiorina hopes to break that string. The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard an…
April 2, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: Woodrow Wilson Asks Congress to Declare War on Germany
Presidents win elections by making promises to voters. But keeping those promises can prove impossible to do. Just ask Woodrow Wilson. He won reelection in November 1916 on a pledge to keep the Unite…
December 3, 2010
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: A Treaty for a Tax Cut
Above the Fold. Don’t count the New START Treaty out just yet. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) told Good Morning America on Tuesday that the treaty could be approved by year’s end. Sen. George Voinovich…
February 26, 2022
United States
TWE Remembers: The Bricker Amendment
In 1954, the Senate nearly passed a constitutional amendment to curtail the president’s authority to make international agreements. President Dwight D. Eisenhower avoided a major foreign policy loss …
