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December 15, 2023

United States
Women This Week: Texas Fails to Resolve Confusion over Abortion Bans

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers December 9 to December 15. 

A patient looks at her ultrasound before proceeding with a medical abortion at Alamo Women's Clinic in Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S., August 23, 2022.

February 14, 2012

Fossil Fuels
The Lamest Analogy In The History Of Energy And Climate

Joe Romm of the Center for American Progress and Joe Nocera of the New York Times have gotten into quite the fight over the Keystone XL pipeline -- and I seem to have gotten caught in the middle. No…

April 6, 2008

Financial Markets
A RMB that isn’t appreciating cannot be killing you …

The premise of Joe Nocera’s New York Times story “Two factories, two firms” is logical enough: an appreciating RMB should hurt a low-end, cost-conscious textile exporter and help a higher-end manufac…

March 6, 2020

Mexico
Women This Week: A Day Without Women in Mexico

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post, covering February 24 to March 6, was compiled by M…

Women raise their hands as they protest against gender violence and femicide in Puebla, Mexico, February 22, 2020.

September 8, 2021

United States
Seven Movies Worth Watching About 9/11

With the twentieth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks this Saturday, we recommend sources for better understanding 9/11 and its aftermath. Today: seven movies about 9/11.

Movies