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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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December 5, 2006
Americas
Welcoming Latin America's New Left
Over the last eighteen months Presidential elections occurred in twelve Latin American countries. While Hugo Chavez and his anti-American tirades grab most of the headlines, these elections actually …
November 16, 2009
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Legislative Federal Debt Ceiling
The United States is rapidly approaching its legal debt limit of just over $12 trillion. As of September 2009, U.S. debt stood at $11.9 trillion. As these charts indicate, Congress has raised the …
March 4, 2011
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Newt Gingrich, GOP Presidential Candidate?
Newt Gingrich addresses the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. (Larry Downing/courtesy Reuters) Someone had to go first. So Newt Gingrich did. While the other major …
June 22, 2011
Ten Whats With...Col. Gian Gentile
Colonel Gian Gentile. Courtesy of the Council on Foreign Relations. This is the first installment of an occasional series for Politics, Power, and Preventive Action (3PA): “Ten Whats With….” In ea…
August 18, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Guest Post: Bollyky on Tobacco and Trade
Jagdish, a thirty-two-year-old daily wage laborer, smokes a cigarette while working at a timber market in Mumbai on June 7, 2011. (Danish Siddiqui/courtesy Reuters) President Obama…
