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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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October 31, 2016
Conflict Prevention
Understanding Atrocities: A Conversation with Dara Kay Cohen
I spoke with Dara Kay Cohen, assistant professor of public policy at Harvard Kennedy School, about her book, Rape During Civil War. To better understand this underexamined wartime atrocity, Dara buil…
October 2, 2012
United States
Aid to Egypt: What’s the Rush?
Texas Rep. Kay Granger has put a hold on $450 million in aid to Egypt, and this has caused consternation in the Obama administration. Granger is a member of the Committee on Appropriations and chair…
October 4, 2011
Defense and Security
Grim Outlook for U.S. Foreign Aid
American soldiers carry relief supplies for families affected by a typhoon in the Philippines. (Romeo Ranoco/courtesy Reuters) The New York Times has a front-page story today on how U.S. foreign aid…
December 1, 2010
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Foreign Aid Fallacies
The Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland (PIPA) has just released the results of one of my favorite poll questions: What percentage of the federal budget goes to…
December 16, 2010
Politics and Government
Tea Parties
Two hundred and thirty seven years ago today the Sons of Liberty dumped 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. It must have been unseasonably warm in Boston in December 1773. The arctic blast now g…
