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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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August 18, 2021
United States
Seven More Books Worth Reading About 9/11 and Its Aftermath
With the twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaching, we recommend sources for better understanding 9/11 and its aftermath. This week: seven books worth reading.
February 7, 2020
Election 2020
Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: President Trump’s New Land-Mine Policy
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential challengers are saying about foreign policy. This week: Democrats vow to reverse the Trump administration’s new land-mine policy, the candidates participa…
September 25, 2018
Women and Women's Rights
New Refugee Ceiling Disproportionately Hurts Female Refugees
The Trump administration announced intentions to lower the refugee ceiling in fiscal year 2019, a change that would disproportionately affect women and children, who represented 72 percent of refugee…
November 18, 2015
Sub-Saharan Africa
Boko Haram: “The World’s Deadliest Terror Organization”
According to the Institute for Economics and Peace’s most recent Global Terrorism Index, Boko Haram is the “world’s deadliest terror organization.” Their figures claim that Boko Haram was responsible…
December 12, 2011
Politics and Government
Assessing Saturday Night’s GOP Debate
Republican presidential candidates pose before the Republican presidential candidates debate at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa on December 10, 2011. (Jeff Haynes/courtesy Reuters) Apparently 7…
