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December 22, 2015

Climate Change
Now Comes the Hard Part: India’s Scope for Emissions Mitigation

This guest post is co-authored by Joshua Busby, Associate Professor, and Sarang Shidore, Consultant and Visiting Scholar, at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. For…

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May 4, 2015

Politics and Government
Campaign 2016: Carly Fiorina, GOP Presidential Candidate

Ten. That’s the number of successive presidents who have come to the White House having previously held elective office. Carly Fiorina hopes to break that string. The former CEO of Hewlett-Packard an…

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July 26, 2013

Military Operations
You Might Have Missed: CIA in Pakistan, Syria, Special Ops in Trans-Sahara

Kathy Gannon and Sebastian Abbot, Criticism Alters US Drone Program in Pakistan, ABC News, July 25, 2013. The CIA has been instructed to be more cautious with its attacks, limiting them to high-valu…

October 8, 2015

Europe and Eurasia
The U.S. Government Largely Has Itself to Blame for the EU Court’s Safe Harbor Decision

Alan Charles Raul is a partner in the Privacy, Data Security and Information Law practice of Sidley Austin LLP.  You can follow his group at datamatters.sidley.com. In a decision Tuesday that was as…

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October 9, 2012

U.S. Universities Dominate World Rankings, For Now

The new college rankings are out. No, not the rankings for football prowess (though they are out too). The Times Higher Education World University Rankings. They debuted last week, and American highe…

A UCLA student attends a graduation ceremony. (Jonathan Alcorn/ courtesy Reuters)