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March 4, 2011

Elections and Voting
Campaign 2012: Hello Newt Gingrich, GOP Presidential Candidate?

Newt Gingrich addresses the 38th annual Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington. (Larry Downing/courtesy Reuters) Someone had to go first. So Newt Gingrich did. While the other major …

Newt Gingrich addresses the 38th annual CPAC meeting in Washington
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

September 5, 2018

Women and Women's Rights
Family Law Reform and Women’s Rights

Around the world, family law and criminal codes are rife with provisions that undermine women’s rights, safety, and economic opportunity. Rangita de Silva de Alwis, an advisor to the European Union o…

Podcast Krishna, 13, at her house in a village near Baran, in the northwestern state of Rajasthan, July 17, 2012. Krishna married her husband when she was 11 and he was 13. The legal age for marriage in India is 18, but marriages like these are common.
Event by Rachel B. Vogelstein, Rangita de Silva de Alwis, and Farahnaz Ispahani Women and Foreign Policy Program

October 18, 2018

United States
Lessons for the Future: A History of Capitalism in America

Alan Greenspan and Adrian Wooldridge discuss the seismic events and trends that formed America's economic history and the insights that can be derived for today's leaders. 

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Event by Alan Greenspan, Adrian Wooldridge, and Abby Joseph Cohen C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

May 27, 2005

United States
Bretton Woods Two and Trade Politics

The interest rate on the 10 year Treasury note is somewhere between 4.0-4.1% -- and the US seems to be having no trouble financing its current account (or its budget) deficit right now. The risk of…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

February 17, 2006

Defense Technology
New Realities in the Media Age

12:15–1:00 p.m. Lunch1:00–2:00 p.m. MeetingSeating is limited.This meeting will be on the record.

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Event by Donald H. Rumsfeld and Kenneth I. Chenault