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December 30, 2013

Diplomacy and International Institutions
Remembering Ten World Figures Who Died in 2013

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.

The sun sets over Clifton Beach in Cape Town, South Africa. (Mike Hutchings/Courtesy Reuters)

August 16, 2005

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Well, the 2005 fiscal deficit looks good …

I'll leave it to others (Brookings, Goldman, CBPP, DeLong with some help from Concord Coalition) to transform the CBO forecast into realistic projections.  Manipulating the CBO long-term budget forec…

January 20, 2012

United States
You Might Have Missed: The Iranian Nuclear Threat, Freedom Rankings, and More

Freedom in the World, Freedom House, January 2012. The political uprisings that have swept the Arab world over the past year represent the most significant challenge to authoritarian rule since…

Afghanistan soldier blast

July 20, 2015

Cybersecurity
The Challenges Facing Computer Security Incident Response Teams

Tim Maurer is the director of the Global Cybersecurity Norms and Resilience Project and Head of Research of New America’s Cybersecurity Initiative. Isabel Skierka is a research associate at the Globa…

NCCIC US-CERT CSIRT Net Politics Cyber CFR

February 15, 2007

United States
If US investors start buying foreign securities like they buy foreign cars, watch out

There is no way to put a positive gloss on the December TIC report.  Total inflows -- counting short and long-term flows -- were negative.   The foreign securities bought by US private investors abro…