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September 30, 2019

Election 2020
Meet Steve Bullock, Democratic Presidential Candidate

Update: Steve Bullock announced on December 2, 2019, that he was dropping out of the race.  Can one of the last candidates to enter the 2020 race be the last one standing? Steve Bullock certainly …

Steve Bullock
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

March 8, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Joe Biden Makes the Case for Ukraine Aid

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: President Joe Biden used his State of the Union Address to urge Congress to provide military aid to…

Biden SOTU
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

April 30, 2007

United States
Dani Rodrik, Steve Waldman, China’s impact on US export prices and the risk of “financial” Dutch disease …

Dani Rodrik didn’t take long to stir up the blogosphere (see Steve Waldman, among others).   Rodrik makes an interesting point:   Trade doesn’t cut inflation.   Sure, it lowers prices for impor…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

January 4, 2024

United States
The President’s Inbox Recap: Far-Right Terrorism

Far-right extremist violence threatens American democracy.

Two firefighters as viewed looking at the wreckage of a federal building.
Blog Post by Michelle Kurilla The Water's Edge

July 20, 2022

Laos
Laos’s Economic Crisis Spiraling out of Control, as It Struggles With Massive Debts to China

In recent months, Laos’ economy has crashed.

Citizens queue up for fuel at a petrol station in Vientiane, Laos on May 14, 2022. Laos' inflation rate climbed to 12.8 percent in May on a yearly basis, the highest in 18 years, according to the latest report from the Lao Statistics Bureau
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Program

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.

BP03202017
Blog Post by Steven A. Cook From the Potomac to the Euphrates