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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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December 4, 2012
Japan
Matthew Marr: Two Improbable Locales for Japanese Optimism
This blog post is part of a series entitled Is Japan in Decline?, in which leading experts analyze Japan’s economy, politics, and society and give their assessment of Japan’s future. Two decades of …
March 24, 2014
Fossil Fuels
FiveThirtyEight’s Data Problem
Nate Silver’s new FiveThirtyEight has been catching a lot of flak since it launched last week. Perhaps the harshest has been directed at the site’s retention of the often-contrarian climate analyst R…
February 18, 2011
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Mubarak Is Gone, Now Comes the Hard Part
A family of Egyptian pro-democracy supporters ride on a motorcycle carrying an Egyptian flag after Friday prayers near Tahrir Square in Cairo. (Amr Dalsh/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. The TV cam…
June 10, 2011
Politics and Government
Friday File: Foreign Policy and the 2012 Election
An American flag flown from the USS Monterey. (Bogdan Cristel/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Most presidential elections turn on domestic issues rather than foreign policy ones. The 2012 election…
July 8, 2011
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Friday File: Brinkmanship on the Debt Ceiling
The National Debt Clock hangs on a wall next to an office for the Internal Revenue Service near Times Square in New York, May 16, 2011. (Chip East/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. They say that if …
