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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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October 21, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Friday File: The Super Committee Has Thirty-Three Days
A pigeon sits on a clock in Frankfurt. (Alex Domanski/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The super committee now has a bit more than a month to strike a long-term deficit reduction deal. I’m skeptica…
January 3, 2008
Politics and Government
Are Americans still Anglo-Saxons?
So asks Arthur Goldhammer, who somehow manages to find time to track the latest US polling data as well as Nicholas Sarkozy’s latest romance and the latest French debate on the euro’s global role. …
October 9, 2015
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016 Weekly Foreign Policy Roundup: TPP and Syria
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal and Russian airstrikes in Syria dominated the foreign policy news from the campaign trail this week. This won’t be the last time you will hear from the candid…
February 2, 2011
Treaties and Agreements
TWE Remembers: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Today marks the anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo formally ending the Mexican-American War. As you might have guessed, the treaty was signed in Guadalupe Hidalgo, which is…
August 13, 2019
Election 2020
Meet Beto O’Rourke, Democratic Presidential Candidate
Update: Beto O'Rourke announced on November 1, 2019, that he was ending his campaign. When Richard Nixon lost California’s governor’s race in 1962, political pundits declared his dream of becoming…
