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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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May 25, 2023
United States
Kissinger at One Hundred: The CFR Connection
Henry Kissinger, marking his one hundredth birthday, and the Council on Foreign Relations have had a long and substantive affiliation, one that spans the career of the preeminent scholar-practitioner…
May 24, 2023
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy
School Shootings Are a National Security Threat
In the year since a gunman butchered nineteen students and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, the United States has suffered at least forty school shootings—perhaps most notably…
January 10, 2023
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Project on the Future of Democracy
America the Exporter: Far-Right Violent Extremism in Brazil and Beyond
Just two days after Americans had marked the two-year anniversary of the horror that visited the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, an eerily familiar scene played out four thousand miles south, in Bra…
November 15, 2018
United States
Presidents and War Powers
PDF Version. A review of Michael Beschloss, “Presidents of War” (Crown Books, 2018). *** The U.S. Constitution vests the president with “executive power” and provides that “The President sh…
July 16, 2023
United States
How Today Is Like the 1890s
The most popular historical analogy for current American troubles is the Civil War era. The second most popular is the Gilded Age. But where the 1850s do not meaningfully resemble today, the 1890s ce…
