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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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August 6, 2019
Election 2020
Meet Cory Booker, Democratic Presidential Candidate
Update: Cory Booker announced on January 13, 2020, that he was ending his campaign. Is America ready for a president who is single and a vegan? Cory Booker, New Jersey’s junior senator, certainly …
October 5, 2018
Iraq
Global Conflict This Week: New President Elected in Iraq
Developments in conflicts across the world that you might have missed this week.
June 23, 2017
Middle East and North Africa
Weekend Reading: Kurds in a State, Jordan and the GCC, and Muqtada al-Sadr's Next Act
Reading selections for the weekend of June 23, 2017.
December 11, 2019
Nigeria
Buhari's Attacks on the Press in Nigeria Continue Unabated
On December 6, the Department of State Security (DSS) stormed into an Abuja courtroom and illegally detained journalist Omoyele Sowore. The episode is deeply disappointing to American friends of Nigeria who are invested in that country’s democratic trajectory. The DSS flagrantly violated the rule of law and the sanctity of a courtroom by violently manhandling Sowore and causing the judge to flee her own chambers. The episode unfurled in full view of national and international media, dragging Nigeria’s international reputation through the mud.
November 22, 2019
Election 2020
Campaign Foreign Policy Roundup: The Fifth Democratic Debate
Each Friday, I look at what the presidential challengers are saying about foreign policy. This week: the Democratic debate, Israeli settlements, China's human rights abuses, and Bolivia.
