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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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November 15, 2018
United States
Presidents and War Powers
PDF Version. A review of Michael Beschloss, “Presidents of War” (Crown Books, 2018). *** The U.S. Constitution vests the president with “executive power” and provides that “The President sh…
February 8, 2019
Economics
2019 Robert B. Menschel Economics Symposium
Although the global rate of extreme poverty is at a historic low, the pace of poverty reduction is slowing and the World Bank estimates that more than 700 million people still live on less than $1.90…
March 3, 2019
North Korea
The Hanoi Summit: Comparing Trump to Reagan at Reykjavik Is Wrong
President Trump’s walk away from his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is being compared to President Reagan’s walk away from the 1986 Reykjavik summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev …
June 19, 2019
Hong Kong
What Does the Pause of Hong Kong’s Extradition Bill Mean?
The bill’s future remains uncertain, but no amendments can change the ugly reality of shipping anyone off to Beijing’s incommunicado torture chambers, its denial of competent legal defenders, and its…
September 26, 2019
China
Communist China’s Painful Human Rights Story
The Chinese Communist Party has used arbitrary detention to maintain power since the People’s Republic of China was founded seventy years ago.
