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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 21, 2020
Election 2020
TWE Remembers: Seven Memorable Presidential Debate Moments
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are set to debate tomorrow night in Nashville. Belmont University is hosting the event, and NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker wil…
January 8, 2021
Transition 2021
Transition 2021: A Divisive and Damaging Presidency Nears Its End
Each Friday, I look at what is happening in President-Elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House. This week: The mob that stormed the Capitol Building this week highlighted how Donald Trump’s pr…
December 22, 2017
Cybersecurity
Cyber Week in Review: December 22, 2017
This week: WannaCry attribution, cybersecurity in Trump's National Security Strategy, new election security bill, and North Korea tries its luck at Bitcoin.
August 2, 2018
Refugees and Displaced Persons
The Humanitarian Crisis You Haven’t Heard About
The United Nations Refugee Agency reports that one person is forcibly displaced from their home every two seconds as a result of conflict or persecution. We have seen the photographs of Syrian refugee camps in Turkey and Lebanon, and read about Somali refugees flooding into Yemen. Worldwide, refugees—citizens who flee their own country for another—number more than 20 million. But that number is dwarfed by a more silent and devastating crisis: the over 40 million who are internally displaced.
February 4, 2009
United States
The Best Laid Plans: The Origins of American Multilateralism and the Dawn of the Cold War
Given today’s global crisis, when international institutions are operating under increasing strain, the time is ripe to look back to the 1940s, when a previous generation of U.S. policymakers help…
