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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 11, 2012
Defense and Security
Ask the Experts: Preventing Sexual Violence
Last week, forty members of Congress re-introduced the International Violence Against Women Act (I-VAWA). As Amnesty International’s Cristina Finch explains, the I-VAWA “would coordinate and improve …
September 7, 2006
China
Tyler Cowen apparently did not read my China testimony! The RMB’s value does influence trade flows
The New York Times’ conservative columnists certainly know how to get my blood boiling. David Brooks, among other things, apparently thinks the key to a hedge fund salary is good people skills – not…
January 23, 2012
Middle East and North Africa
How to Help Syria without Intervening Militarily
The Arab League met yesterday to assess its observer mission to Syria so far and to consider further steps. Syria’s reprehensible behavior and the Arab League’s inability to stop it will doubtlessly …
March 30, 2012
Defense and Security
Friday File: Obama’s Open Mic Gaffe
Above the Fold. President Obama got himself into hot water this week when he was overhead telling Russian president Dmitri Medvedev he would have “more flexibility” on issues like missile defense aft…
July 2, 2015
United States
You Might Have Missed: Recent Academic Journal Findings II
Six months ago, I published the first blog in this series, highlighting earlier academic findings. Jeffrey Stamp, “Aero-Static Warfare: A Brief Survey of Ballooning in Mid-nineteenth-century Siege W…
