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January 7, 2021

Mexico
Discussion of Whitney Museum Exhibition: Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art

The Council on Foreign Relations and the Whitney Museum of American Art invite you to join our panelists for a discussion of Vida Americana: Mexican Muralists Remake American Art, currently on view a…

Play People look at art at the press preview of "Vida Americana: Mexican muralists remake American art, 1925-1945", that brings together 200 works by 60 American and Mexican artists at the Whitney Museum, in New York on Febuary 11, 2020.

June 27, 2011

Fossil Fuels
Is Shale Gas a Ponzi Scheme?

[Dear new readers: This post is part of a blog on energy and climate issues. Click here for the full blog.] The New York Times’ war on shale gas continues with two more big stories by Ian Urbina. Th…

August 1, 2011

Fossil Fuels
The New York Times Shale Gas Saga Continues

I’ve been wary of wading back into the brouhaha over Ian Urbina’s New York Times shale gas series – after all, I’m a policy analyst, not a media critic. But a couple pieces about natural gas publishe…

April 12, 2018

Cuba
The Latin American Summit Must Deal With Dictatorship in Cuba

The Latin American summit meeting in Lima, Peru this coming weekend occurs just a week before Raul Castro "steps aside" and Cuba has a new president. But consider this anomaly: Venezuelan president M…

December 28, 2022

2022 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2022

Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.  

Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh on her coronation day at Buckingham Palace in 1953.