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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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February 7, 2005
Trade
TRADE: Outsourcing Jobs
This publication is now archived. What’s the debate over outsourcing?Shifting jobs to lower-wage countries--a form of what is known as offshore outsourcing--is an increasingly popular practice among …
January 31, 2022
Myanmar
Myanmar’s Troubled History: Coups, Military Rule, and Ethnic Conflict
The 2021 coup returned Myanmar to military rule and shattered hopes for democratic progress in a Southeast Asian country beset by decades of conflict and repressive regimes.
August 11, 2022
Energy and Environment
How the U.S. Oil and Gas Industry Works
The United States is the world’s top producer of oil and natural gas. Its decision to either continue at this pace or curb production to achieve its climate goals will have global consequences.
August 15, 2019
Political Movements
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood, once Egypt’s largest opposition movement and a standard-bearer for Islamist groups around the world, has been once again driven underground as Abdel Fatah al-Sisi has consolid…
December 19, 2007
United States
Vehicle Fuel Economy
Congress has approved the first increase in corporate average fuel economy in thirty years, propelled by worries over rising oil prices.