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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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July 6, 2023
United States
TWNW Special: What to Read This Summer 2023
In this special episode of The World Next Week, Rosa Brooks, the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy and professor at Georgetown University Law Center, joins Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbi…
March 8, 2024
Elections and Voting
The Outlook for Women’s Political Leadership in 2024
As a record number of countries hold elections in 2024, panelists reflect on the substantive policy achievements of women political leaders, needed measures to achieve increased women’s leadership, a…
March 15, 2018
Sub-Saharan Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa's Billionaires
Sub-Saharan Africa Has Fourteen Billionaires, eight of whom are in South Africa and seven of whom are white.
September 11, 2023
Trade
Decision Making in an Uncertain World
In a conversation with two of his former chiefs of staff, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert E. Rubin discusses his decision-making process and how policymakers should think about economic issues …
February 4, 2013
Sub-Saharan Africa
South African Black Billionaire and the “Patriotic Bourgeoisie”
On January 30, 2013, Patrice Motsepe pledged to give half of the income generated by his family assets to charity. The ruling African National Congress (ANC) issued a press release congratulating Mot…
July 23, 2019
North Korea
Sino-U.S. Strategic Competition Impedes a Nuclear Deal With North Korea
The Chinese view an expanding North Korean nuclear program as hastening the erosion of American credibility throughout Asia, and eventually contributing to China’s assumption of the role of regional …
