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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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May 27, 2005
Economics
Housing bubbles, the great plains and the coast
Not all parts of America are enjoying a housing bubble. $65,000 will buy a brick home with three bedrooms and a two car garage in Stafford Kansas, though maybe not ten acres of prairie as well. Low…
December 10, 2010
Congresses and Parliaments
Friday File: Afghanistan Strategy Review
Above the fold. The White House is wrapping up its year-end Afghanistan strategy review. Its conclusion, perhaps not surprisingly, looks to be that the surge strategy President Obama announced a …
October 16, 2012
United States
TWE Remembers: Learning More About the Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis brought the United States and the Soviet Union closer to nuclear war than any other event during the Cold War. President John F. Kennedy put the odds of war at “somewhere bet…
April 29, 2011
Defense and Security
Friday File: What Do the Panetta and Petraeus Nominations Say About Obama?
U.S. Army General David Petraeus (L) and CIA director Leon Panetta (R). (Staff photographer/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. Washington’s worst kept secret is now out. President Obama has …
June 18, 2014
More Books to Read This Summer
Last week, Bob McMahon, Gideon Rose, and I offered up our summer reading suggestions on The World Next Week podcast. India Adams and her colleagues on the CFR Library staff were not to be outdone. Th…
