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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 1, 2023
COVID-19
Not All U.S. States Struggled Equally Against COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic devastated the United States with over one million deaths over three years. Yet, the burden of the virus was not spread evenly across the country. States like Vermont and Washin…
January 9, 2024
Political History and Theory
The World That Wasn’t
A dramatic and powerful new perspective on the political career of Henry Wallace—a perspective that will forever change how we view the making of U.S. and Soviet foreign policy at the dawn of the Col…
December 15, 2021
Human Rights
David A. Morse Lecture: System Failure in the World’s Crisis Zones—A Conversation With David Miliband
David Miliband discusses the countries most at risk of humanitarian deterioration in 2022, what is driving record levels of global need, and how the international system meant to prevent and address …
March 6, 2023
United States
Biden’s Progress on Women’s Rights: Good Start, But Not Fast Enough
More than two years into his presidency, Joseph Biden has achieved some of his gender equality goals, and fallen short on others.
October 17, 2023
Central Africa
The Lumumba Plot
A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo.
March 27, 2024
Defense Technology
Malcolm and Carolyn Wiener Annual Lecture on Science and Technology With Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Frank Whitworth
Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), Vice Admiral Frank “Trey” Whitworth, discusses the future of the NGA and how the agency is addressing new threats, strategic defense com…
January 2, 2024
Sub-Saharan Africa
The Destructive Drive in African Politics
The descent into normlessness in various African countries calls for a new scholarly and policy approach.
