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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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July 22, 2014
Politics and Government
Hello, Joko “Jokowi” Widodo: President of Indonesia
Sometimes sure things turn out not to be so sure. Just ask Joko Widodo, who is better known to his fellow Indonesians as “Jokowi.” At the start of 2014 he was expected to win Indonesia’s presidential…
May 27, 2014
India
Hello, Narendra Modi: Prime Minister of India
India did not produce Horatio Alger, but it certainly has produced a Horatio-Alger story: Narendra Modi. Yesterday the son of a poor tea seller took the oath of office as India’s fourteenth (or fifte…
July 16, 2015
Elections and Voting
Campaign 2016: Governor Scott Walker, GOP Presidential Candidate
Twelve Americans have become president without having earned a college degree. (Two of them are on Mount Rushmore.) Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, who studied at Marquette University but left befor…
February 21, 2011
TWE Celebrates Presidents’ Day Because It Is the Day of Presidents
President George W. Bush meets with former Presidents and President-elect Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, January 2009. (Kevin Lamarque/courtesy Reuters) Being president o…
