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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 13, 2014
Americas
This Year’s Presidential Elections in Latin America
Earlier this week, Salvadorans headed to the polls to cast their ballots in a presidential runoff election, since on February 2 the candidates failed to reach the 50 percent threshold to avoid a seco…
May 31, 2017
Energy and Environment
How to Save Mission Innovation
Today officials are reporting President Trump plans to pull the United States out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. I’ve argued before that that would be an inexcusable foreign policy blunder…
July 18, 2012
Human Rights
Does the United States Favor Democracy in El Salvador?
Having undermined democracy in Honduras in 2009 and watched democracy disappear in Nicaragua as the Sandinistas regained power in 2011, it is perhaps not surprising that the Obama administration appe…
January 29, 2019
Brazil
Misinformation is a Threat to Democracy in the Developing World
Online misinformation is a problem for democracies worldwide, but we should worry about how misinformation will change democracies in the developing world.
May 17, 2007
Economics
Visiting Bolivia (part II)
Everyone in Bolivia is focusing on the shift toward "participatory democracy," from the previous "representative democracy." Some embrace this change enthusiastically, while others view it warily. Wh…