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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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June 13, 2014
Immigration and Migration
Immigration Reform Is Dead, Precisely When We Need It Most
With Eric Cantor’s loss earlier this week, most believe immigration reform is dead. Yet with tens of thousands of Mexican and Central American children flooding across the U.S. southern border, a leg…
October 20, 2016
Health
Podcast: The Next WHO DG: What Skills and Experiences are we Looking For?
The following is a guest post by my colleague Yanzhong Huang, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations. The Ebola epidemic undermined the confidence that states and the in…
January 12, 2016
Sub-Saharan Africa
Racist Facebook Comments Ignite South African Anger
Penny Sparrow, age sixty-nine, a white real estate agent in Durban and a member of the opposition Democratic Alliance (DA), in a Facebook post characterized black beach goers over New Year’s as “monk…
May 11, 2021
Digital Policy
How the Dictator’s Digital Dilemma Constrains Leaders’ Choices
An excerpt from Steven Feldstein's new book: The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology Is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance.
June 21, 2012
Fossil Fuels
Is U.S. Energy Independence Possible?
It depends on how you define it. Take oil, for example. The recent, sustained downturn in U.S. oil imports is already the talk of the town, but to recap: The United States is importing far less fore…