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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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April 1, 2024
RealEcon
Policymaking Is All About Trade-Offs
In crafting a new international economic policy that works for Americans and advances U.S. interests, policymakers will have to weigh multiple trade-offs.
March 7, 2024
Women and Women's Rights
Abortion Law: Global Comparisons
The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, which guaranteed the constitutional right to abortion for almost fifty years. How does regulation of abortion in the United States compare to that in th…
January 17, 2024
Democracy
Political Hurdles on Ukraine’s Way to EU Membership
After the 2013–14 Revolution of Dignity, which overthrew a deeply corrupt, Russian-backed regime, Ukraine declared its ambition to integrate into the Euro-Atlantic community of free-market democracie…
November 30, 2023
China
The Legacy of Henry Kissinger
The passing of America’s preeminent foreign-policy thinker and practitioner marks the end of an era. Throughout his long and extraordinarily influential career, Henry Kissinger built a legacy that Am…
June 16, 2022
United States
Fake News, Then and Now
The problem of fake news has been with us from the beginning of the Republic, and American democracy was even worse at dealing with it then than it is now.
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…
November 5, 2019
Elections and Voting
The President's Inbox
James M. Lindsay hosts two experts with contending views to discuss U.S. foreign policy challenges