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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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October 6, 2011
Intelligence
Targeted Killings and America’s ’Kill Lists’
An undated handout image, courtesy of the U.S. Air Force, shows a MQ-1 Predator unmanned aircraft. (Ho New / Courtesy of Reuters) In June 2010, former Director of Central Intelligence Leon Panetta w…
April 1, 2011
Congresses and Parliaments
Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Constitutional? Part IV
In my posts on the constitutionality of Operation Odyssey Dawn I have looked at what the Framers said about the war power, what proponents of an independent presidential war-making authority bas…
December 16, 2010
Politics and Government
Tea Parties
Two hundred and thirty seven years ago today the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. It must have been unseasonably warm in Boston in December 1773. The arctic blast now g…
May 20, 2016
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Friday Foreign Policy Roundup: It’s the Economy, Stupid
A Gallup poll out this week found that the economy remains the country’s top concern. Eighteen percent of Americans flag the “economy in general” as the most important problem facing the nation, whil…
December 14, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Predicting Future Wars, Drones, Secrecy
Remarks by Secretary Leon Panetta at Ali Salem Air Base, December 12, 2012. “The war of the future is going to involve cyber war. That’s a reality. We will do that; others will do that.” (3PA: Ac…
