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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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February 8, 2024
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The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy
Modern vice presidents can trace much of their political influence to the broad reforms that Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale made to the second-highest elected office in the late 1970s.
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.
June 17, 2013
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TWE Remembers: Herbert Hoover Signs the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Into Law
Economists are said to be too smart for their own good and not smart enough for anyone else’s. If so, should presidents take their advice? One president who wishes he had is Herbert Hoover. In June 1…
January 16, 2004
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Council’s Julia Sweig Wins 2003 Herbert Feis Award for Book on Cuban Revolution
January 16, 2004—Julia E. Sweig, Council senior fellow and deputy director of the Latin America Program, has won the prestigious 2003 American Historical Association’s Herbert Feis Award for her accl…
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The Future of the Global Trading System
The project on the Future of the Global Trading System explores the protectionist turn in U.S. trade policy. The election of Donald Trump was the most vocal challenge to the consensus for trade liber…
May 26, 2023
United States
Remembering Those Whom Memorial Day Honors
The stories of five Americans who were awarded the Medal of Honor for making the ultimate sacrifice.
