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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 10, 2020
Technology and Innovation
Can the “Maine Model” Bring the Innovation Economy to the Rest of America?
The opening of Northeastern University's Roux Institute in Portland, Maine is a crucial first step in bringing the innovation economy to states that have historically been overlooked by venture capit…
June 25, 2019
Southeast Asia
Making Sense of the ASEAN Summit
Last weekend’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, held in Bangkok, yielded several notable accomplishments. But several of the announced breakthroughs actually contain less than m…
April 12, 2024
China
China’s New Currency Peg
The peg that shall not be named, and all the trouble that creates.
October 16, 2012
Asia
The Death of King Sihanouk
Of the major figures from the Indochina Wars of the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s, there are now very few left. Vo Nguyen Giap, military commander for the People’s Army of Vietnam, is still alive, t…
March 4, 2015
Middle East and North Africa
Common Sense and Courage on Egypt
Senator John McCain is a rare voice both of common sense and--because common sense on Egypt is so rare--of courage when it comes to U.S. relations with that key Arab country. Last week he issued thi…