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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 14, 2021
United States
More Resources Worth Exploring About 9/11
With the twentieth anniversary of 9/11 this past Saturday, we share resources that readers flagged for us or that we otherwise missed about that day and its consequences
September 12, 2022
Afghanistan
Preview Screening and Discussion of “Escape From Kabul”
Escape From Kabul unfolds over eighteen monumental days in August 2021, from the U.S. withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan through the subsequent evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghan citize…
January 18, 2019
United States
U.S. Economic Competitiveness: Trade, Immigration, and Workforce Development
Chike Aguh, principal of strategy and product integration at McChrystal Group; Diana Farrell, founding president and chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase Institute; and Alexandra Fuenmayor Starr…
November 4, 2011
Friday File: Remembering the Iranian Hostage Crisis
Letter from President Jimmy Carter to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini regarding the release of American hostages, dated November 6, 1979. (Courtesy the National Archives) Above the Fold. Thirty-two year…
December 1, 2012
United States
You Might Have Missed: Drones, Nuclear Smuggling, and Gun Violence
Craig Whitlock, “Drone Crashes Mount at Civilian Airports,” Washington Post, November 30, 2012. In Djibouti, five Predators have crashed since the Air Force began ramping up drone operations there t…
