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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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April 22, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: The Globe Warms and the People Chill
A male polar bear waits for an ice sheet to form to allow migration in an area about 300km north of Churchill, Canada on November 17, 2009. (Iain D. Williams/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Tod…
December 29, 2021
2021 in Review
Ten World Figures Who Died in 2021
Ten people who passed away this year who shaped world affairs for better or worse.
October 16, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: JFK Learns that Soviet Missiles Are in Cuba (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day One)
Hillary Clinton famously ran a political attack ad during the 2008 primary campaign saying that a president had to be prepared for a 3:00 a.m. phone call saying that something bad had happened overse…
July 30, 2012
Rising to the Challenge: The National Academies and Innovation Policy
Congressional leaders united in outrage earlier this month when they learned that the uniforms for the U.S. Olympic team had been made in China. They would have done better to save their breath and i…
July 16, 2021
Wars and Conflict
Five Movies Worth Watching About Love and War
Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about romance amid conflict.
