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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
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August 20, 2021
Wars and Conflict
Five Foreign-Policy Movies Worth Watching About Being in Combat
Every summer Friday, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: films about the experience of war.
May 18, 2021
Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines
Good News Emerges About a Malaria Vaccine
In Africa and elsewhere, COVID-19 dominates media attention. Yet malaria has probably killed four times as many as COVID-19 over the last year in Africa. The good news is that early trials of a new vaccine, R21, show an effectiveness rate of 77 percent. The new vaccine is a further development of Mosquirix, a vaccine with a 56 percent effectiveness after one year, falling to 36 percent after four years.
October 21, 2020
Election 2020
TWE Remembers: Seven Memorable Presidential Debate Moments
President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are set to debate tomorrow night in Nashville. Belmont University is hosting the event, and NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker wil…
October 6, 2020
Election 2020
TWE Remembers: Four Memorable Foreign Policy Moments in Vice-Presidential Debates
This blog post was written by Anna Shortridge, research associate for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. The vice-presidential debate is scheduled to be held tomorrow tonight…
July 28, 2020
South Africa
Andrew Mlangeni, Mandela Ally and Anti-Apartheid Hero, Dies in South Africa
Andrew Mlangeni was the last living defendant of the 1963 Rivonia trial, which resulted in the sentencing of Andrew and ten others, among them, Ahmed Kathrada, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and, most famously, Nelson Mandela.
