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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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June 9, 2014
Politics and Government
Hello (Ahlan), Abdul Fattah al-Sisi: President of Egypt
Abdul Fattah al-Sisi took the oath of office as Egypt’s new president yesterday. He succeeded the interim president, Adly Mansour. And who appointed Mansour? Why, Sisi himself after he and the Egypt…
June 1, 2011
Intelligence
Osama Bin Laden’s Death: One Month Later
Tomorrow marks the one month anniversary of President Barack Obama’s appearance before the nation to announce that “the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden.” Accordin…
November 4, 2013
Turkey
Turkey: Hello, I Must Be Going
I first arrived in Turkey on a chilly, gray afternoon in early October 1992. I had been living in Jerusalem studying Arabic and Hebrew—this was during my Arab-Israeli conflict stage—when the guy wit…
December 30, 2015
Saudi Arabia
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2015
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
July 5, 2013
Defense and Security
You Might Have Missed: Drone Strikes, Armed Conflict Data, and Snowden’s Fate
Hope Hodge, The Pentagon’s Hollywood Liaison, Army Times, July 8, 2013. The U.S. military has played a supporting role in blockbuster films almost since the invention of the silver screen… Since 19…