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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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April 12, 2024
China
China’s New Currency Peg
The peg that shall not be named, and all the trouble that creates.
December 19, 2023
Education
U.S. Campuses and the Problem of Antisemitism
The "DEI" bureaucracies in U.S. colleges are failing to protect Jewish students from a wave of antisemitism. The right reaction is to recognize how pernicious they are, not to plead that Jewish stude…
November 17, 2023
United States
Campaign Roundup: What Americans Think About China
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This week: What Americans think about China.
June 25, 2023
China
Did Prigozhin Just Save Taiwan?
Might the revolt by Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner group teach Xi Jinping the lesson that invasions are too uncertain and risky, and lead him away from invading Taiwan?
January 31, 2022
Liberia
Jail Term for Former Liberian Defense Minister Offers Ray of Hope to Anti-Corruption Forces in Africa
Last week, the Liberian Supreme Court affirmed the ruling of a lower court which ordered the imprisonment of former Liberian Defense Minister Brownie Jeffrey Samukai Jr., for two years. A one-time deputy minister in the country’s Ministry of National Defense, Samukai was former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s pick to head the ministry when the latter took over the reins as president in January 2006.
January 10, 2022
Ethiopia
Ethiopia Conflict Dynamics Shift as New U.S. Envoy Takes Over
The Biden administration is trying to capitalize on positive trends in Ethiopia as it transitions from Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman, whose resignation was announced last week, to his successor, David Satterfield.
