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March 22, 2016

Sub-Saharan Africa
Former British High Commissioner on Nigeria’s Kidnapped Chibok School Girls

It has been almost two years since Boko Haram, the radical Islamist movement operating in northeast Nigeria, claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of some 276 school girls. Despite significant in…

Chibok non-rescue

April 4, 2023

Economics
Renewing America Series: The Debt Ceiling Fight and the Future U.S. Debt Picture

As the battle over raising the U.S. debt ceiling continues to take shape, former Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and former Senator Rob Portman discuss the politics surrounding the coming fight, the poss…

Play A U.S. Senate Republican staffer sets up a visual aid ahead of a news conference about the debt ceiling held by Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Lee (R-UT), Rick Scott (R-FL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI), among others, at the U.S. Capitol building in Washington, U.S., January 25, 2023.

December 23, 2016

Cyber Week in Review: December 23, 2016

Here is a quick round-up of this week’s technology headlines and related stories you may have missed: 1. No more data for you. The Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated portions of the …

People walk outside the European Commission headquarters in Belgium, November 26, 2015. (Benoit Tessier/Reuters)

March 12, 2019

Pharmaceuticals and Vaccines
Measles and the Threat of the Anti-vaccination Movement

Measles cases have spiked as a growing number of anti-vaxxers, opting out of immunizations for their kids, threaten decades of progress toward eliminating the disease.

A medical staff worker with a syringe containing vaccine for measles and mumps at a clinic in Moscow, Russia.

April 5, 2022

Energy and Climate Policy
Russia and the Future of U.S. Energy

Amy Myers Jaffe, research professor and managing director of the Climate Policy Lab at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, discusses economic sanctions on Russia and their implications for U.S…

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