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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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April 12, 2024
United States
Election 2024: The United States Is Facing a Second China Shock
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: China’s effort to solve its economic woes by doubling down on exports is creating a policy challeng…
March 20, 2024
Human Rights
The Human Rights Industry
The two largest human rights NGOs, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, dominate the field despite deep problems of bias and inadequate oversight.
April 5, 2024
United States
Election 2024: China’s Efforts to Interfere in the U.S. Presidential Election
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: China is following Russia’s lead in meddling in the U.S. presidential election.
April 2, 2006
Europe
Daniel Gross continues to say interesting things about the global economy
Daniel Gross has noted one other way the US and continental Europe are more alike than different - corporate success hasn't translated into broad-based wage gains. Corporate profits are rising rel…
April 12, 2024
China
China’s New Currency Peg
The peg that shall not be named, and all the trouble that creates.
March 29, 2024
United States
Election 2024: Are Republicans Turning Isolationist?
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Many Republicans have lost faith in their party’s traditional embrace of internationalism.
February 16, 2024
United States
Campaign Roundup: Donald Trump Says He Will Not Protect “Delinquent” NATO Members
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: The forty-fifth president says he will encourage Russia to attack NATO countries who don’t spend en…
August 19, 2011
Yemen
Weekend Reading: Young Yemenis, Liberation in Libya?, and Judging Egypt’s Judiciary
Man reads Koran beside shelf stacked with them at Masjid Al Kabir, also known as Grand Mosque, during Ramadan in old city of Sanaa (Jumana El-Heloueh/Courtesy Reuters) Tik Root, on Al Jazeera, disc…
