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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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October 27, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: Black Saturday—Near Calamities Abound as JFK Offers Khrushchev a Deal (Cuban Missile Crisis, Day Twelve)
Murphy’s Law holds that if anything can go wrong, it will. On Saturday October 27, 1962, the twelfth day of the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy might have been thinking about that fam…
May 12, 2005
United States
The sustainability of the current account deficit, once again
The market seems to have concluded that there is no need to put any pressure on the US to reduce its large external deficits. The dollar is up, at least against the euro. So is the renminbi for th…
November 12, 2010
Diplomacy and International Institutions
Friday File: Obama in Asia
Above the Fold: The big news of the week has been President Obama’s Asia trip. The coverage at home has generally been positive. Walter Russell Mead reviews the India leg of the trip and applauds…
June 21, 2013
Political Transitions
You Might Have Missed: Syrian Intervention, Drone Transparency, and Surveillance Programs
“Nuclear Nonproliferation: IAEA Has Made Progress in Implementing Critical Programs but Continues to Face Challenges,” U.S. Government Accountability Office, May 16, 2013. As of December 2011, IAEA …
November 8, 2013
Political Transitions
You Might Have Missed: FAA UAV Roadmap, Salaries of Congress, and Blackwater
“Despite Challenges, Africans Are Optimistic about the Future,” Pew Research, November 8, 2013. The world’s two leading powers, the U.S. and China, enjoy mostly positive images in Africa. Both natio…
