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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 27, 2018
Women and Women's Rights
Women This Week: Increasing Equality in India
Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering September 20 to Septembe 27, was compiled…
March 20, 2017
Media
Fake News Has a Long History in the Middle East—and the Lessons for Americans Are Unmistakably Dire
Information has long been falsified and weaponized in Turkey and the Arab world—and we're headed that way fast.
September 15, 2014
United States
ISIS and Us: No Way To Go To War
Washington is in an ISIS frenzy. Everywhere you turn, everything you read, every place you go, you can’t escape ISIS. Since James Foley was beheaded on August 19, everyone in and around the Beltway…
July 3, 2013
Trade
The U.S.-EU Spying Fiasco: Why Commercial Espionage is a Bad Idea for the United States
When I was a young reporter in 1993 covering the final days of the Uruguay Round world trade negotiations in Geneva, I got a strange phone call in my hotel room from one of the lobbyists for a big U…
November 4, 2011
Politics and Government
Egyptian Politics: Back to the Future
Egyptians cast their vote during a national referendum at a polling station in Cairo (Amr Dalsh/Courtesy Reuters) Over the last three weeks as I have been out on the road with my book, The Struggle …
