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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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July 9, 2012
Trade
Morning Brief: Posner Questions Software Patents
Federal Judge Richard Posner—who recently tossed a major patent case between Apple and Google last month—questions the value of patents in software (Reuters). Posner argues that while innovations in …
October 7, 2019
NAFTA
Democrats Are Right to Insist on Better Enforcement Provisions in the USMCA
Are the provisions of the Trump administration’s rewrite of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)—set forth in the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) enforceable? As written, the…
November 6, 2022
Israel
Israel's Election: What to Think About Religious Zionists, Netanyahu, and Tales of Doomsday
Doomsday predictions about the consequences of Israel's election are overwrought. Some of the proposed legal reforms would bring Israel's system closer to the U.S. model.
February 12, 2012
Iran
Turning Point in Bahrain
February 14 will be the anniversary of the date when demonstrations began in Bahrain last year. More demonstrations will mark the date, and violence is feared. No events connected to the so-called “…