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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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February 15, 2012
How, and How Not, to Debate The Budget
In our current political climate, the budget of the President is no longer a legislative proposal--it is merely an invitation to debate. And in the aftermath of the release of the budget Monday, we h…
April 24, 2014
Trade
A Guide to the Rana Plaza Tragedy, and its Implications, in Bangladesh
One year ago today, April 24, the world watched with horror as a concrete building known as “Rana Plaza” cracked, buckled, and ultimately collapsed atop the garment workers inside its factories. It w…
December 13, 2010
Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and Disarmament
TWE Quick Takes: Saddam Hussein, New START and More
Seven years ago today soldiers in the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 4th Infantry Division pulled Saddam Hussein from a hole underneath a two-room mud shack on a sheep farm in the town of ad-Dawr, …
December 20, 2010
Politics and Government
Killer Amendments Die
The New START Treaty made it through the weekend intact. Opponents offered two so-called killer amendments, and both failed to get fifty-one votes. (A treaty needs sixty-seven votes to pass the Se…
