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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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June 28, 2011
Americas
Evolving Views on Mexico’s War on Drugs
Supporter of the peace caravan led by Mexican poet Sicilia holds a banner during a rally (Courtesy Reuters). The U.S.-Mexico Interparliamentary Group convened in DC a couple of weeks ago, an annual …
June 1, 2017
Sub-Saharan Africa
Should Technical Actors Play a Political Role in the Internet Age?
Corinne Cath is a doctoral student at the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute. You can follow her at @C__Cath. The African Network Information Center (AFRINIC) – the technical …
October 23, 2008
Monetary Policy
Very true -- "The globalization of the credit crunch" has produced a series of currency crises in the emerging world
Alan Ruskin argues that the moves in the foreign exchange market today -- with the dollar and yen rising sharply against nearly everything -- reflect an unwinding of bets made on the assumption that…
September 18, 2018
United States
Happy 71st Birthday to the U.S. Air Force!
The United States Air Force marks seventy-one years of service.
September 16, 2006
China
Gunboat diplomacy isn’t what it used to be …
Alan Beattie.In any case, here is last year's annual IMF health-check on China: "The staff reiterated the need for greater exchange rate flexibility in China, emphasising that an early move is warra…
March 22, 2011
Technology and Innovation
Is There An Alternative To Nuclear?
I have a new piece in Slate that looks at the consequences of moving away from nuclear power. The climate policy analysis has attracted some thoughtful pushback. Let me address a few of the more impo…