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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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December 22, 2005
Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Memo to John Snow: Do housing bubbles count?
John Snow's latte-drinking budget mythmaking has gotten plenty of (fully warranted) criticism already, but I'll still pile on. Snow argues that the large budget surplus at the tail end of the Clinton…
May 23, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa
Health Watch: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe
South African media is reporting that Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, 93, has “worsening health problems.” Apparently, his wife Grace “is in a quandary: she has to deal with Mugabe’s health challen…
April 19, 2024
United States
Election 2024: Donald Trump Declines to Fight Aid to Ukraine
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Donald Trump has chosen to stand aside as the House of Representatives moves to vote on aid to Ukra…
August 15, 2011
Syria
Should Robert Ford Be Confirmed?
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee held a rump confirmation for Robert Ford on August 2, attended amazingly enough by only one senator. (The rest had gone home after the debt ceiling vote.) But e…
October 6, 2012
Iran
Robert Gates and Israel: There He Goes Again
This past week, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told an audience in Norfolk, Virginia that an American or Israeli strike on the Iranian nuclear sites would be "catastrophic" and that America…