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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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March 18, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: Obama “Dithers” No More
Libyan protesters in Tobruk celebrate after the UN Security Council passes a resolution authorizing a "no-fly" zone and military attacks on Muammar Qaddafi's forces. (Suhaib Salem/courtesy Reuters…
April 5, 2011
Politics and Government
Is Operation Odyssey Dawn Constitutional? Part V
Most Americans think of the Supreme Court as the legal equivalent of a baseball umpire. In their view, the Court’s job is to call legal balls and strikes, and thereby tell us what the law is. So…
October 7, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Libya, Syria, and the Responsibility to Protect
A session of the United Nations Security Council in New York. (Shannon Stapleton/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The UN Security Council witnessed a rare double veto on Tuesday. Both Russia and Ch…
July 1, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File:Congress Still Not Biting on Libya
Above the Fold. I wrote two weeks ago that nothing would come of congressional efforts to reverse President Obama on Libya. Lo and behold, lawmakers have given speeches, pounded tables, and held vo…
April 12, 2012
Fossil Fuels
An Anti-Speculative Frenzy
I was worried that my defense of speculation in the oil market, published this week on ForeignAffairs.com, was late to the game, but my timing turned out to be right on. Just yesterday, an op-ed appe…