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Tough Question in Climate Change: Who Gets Saved?

August 29, 2016
Governments preparing for climate change already assess which communities can be saved and which cannot. Christopher Flavelle compares Newtok and other remote communities in Alaska with Isle de Jean Charles in Louisiana, all trying to escape rising waters. The US Department of Housing and Urban...

Pakistan’s Taliban Nightmare

August 23, 2012
More than a decade of war in Afghanistan has devastated Pakistan economically and politically. Yet Pakistan is key to Afghan security, capable of acting as a regional enforcer or spoiler as the US and NATO plan to withdraw forces from Afghanistan before the end 2014. Contrary to what’s widely...

Robert Mueller's Congressional Testimony

July 25, 2019
Robert Mueller testified before two congressional committees about the nearly two-year investigation he led on Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election. Mueller was an unwilling player in partisan drama, and his responses did not stray far from the text of his 448-page report...

Reuters: Kenya's Supreme Court Upholds Kenyatta's Presidential Win

November 20, 2017
Kenya's presidential race is decided after the country’s Supreme Court unanimously upheld reelection of Uhuru Kenyatta. The announcement was met with celebrations and protests, with some reports of violence. The opposition party, which had organized a boycott on voting in October, indicated...

Tracking COVID-19 with Air Travel Data: Rand

June 15, 2020
Rand Corporation researchers have developed a Covid-19 air-traffic visualization tool that combines case data from Johns Hopkins University with travel data from the International Air Transport Association. “Together, these data sets make it possible to visualize how coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID...

G-20 and Taxation Rules for Digital Giants: Kyodo

June 7, 2019
The world’s major economies agreed in a draft statement to accelerate tax collection from multinational digital companies like Google and Facebook. “The G-20 finance ministers and central bank governors will also warn that the world economy continues to face downside risks from trade conflicts...

Financial Times: US Relations With Allies at New Lows

June 11, 2018
Trade tensions made for an acrimonious G7 summit, reports Chris Giles for the Financial Times: “The west was in disarray after Donald Trump left the summit early, instructed his officials to tear up the bland G7 statement, threatened to impose more tariffs and called the Canadian prime minister ‘...

Economist: Scrapping Iran Deal Could Embolden Hardliners

October 21, 2017
While US military forces have worked alongside Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC, to counter the Islamic State in Iraq, political moves out of Washington may unravel any conciliatory efforts between the two countries. As Donald Trump works to undo many of former US President Barack Obama’s...
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