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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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April 19, 2011
TWE Mailbag: The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere--An Update
A woman mails envelopes at the James A Farley Post U.S. office in New York on April 15, 2010. (Mike Segar/courtesy Reuters) Yesterday’s post on "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" attracted a couple…
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…
April 12, 2012
United States
U.S. Foreign Policy and Inflated Threats
On February 15, General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee: “I can’t impress upon you that in my personal military judgment, formed over th…
December 7, 2010
More Celebrities and Foreign Policy
Yesterday I blogged on an article in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine about John Prendergast’s efforts to enlist celebrities to help bring attention to humanitarian disasters in Africa. A sharp-ey…
