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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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September 4, 2020
Wars and Conflict
Ten More Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching
Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. For our final week: films that we haven’t yet recommended and think we should.
May 10, 2012
Trade
Richard Mourdock and the Politics of Dysfunction
Richard Mourdock, who defeated long-serving Senator Richard Lugar this week for the GOP nomination in Indiana, is a serious politician. He served two terms as state treasurer and ran for the House of…
March 5, 2016
Remembering the Iraqi Uprising Twenty-Five Years Ago
On February 15, 1991, four weeks into Operation Desert Storm, President George H.W. Bush, using identical language twice—at the White House and later at a Raytheon defense plant in Massachusetts—enco…
May 13, 2013
United Kingdom
TWE Remembers: Churchill’s “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat”
You finally land the job you have long coveted. But many of your colleagues dislike you, and the task you have been given may be undoable. That’s the situation that Winston Churchill found himself in…
January 6, 2014
United States
TWE Remembers: FDR’s “Four Freedoms” State of the Union Address
Barack Obama is set to give his State of the Union address this month. If it is like most such speeches, it will be hotly debated for a moment and then forgotten. (Quick, name the major theme of last…
