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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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April 8, 2014
Global
Popular Media and Social Change
Isobel Coleman hosts William Ryerson, founder and president of the Population Media Center, and Roshaneh Zafar, founder and managing director of the Kashf Foundation, for a discussion about harnessin…
May 2, 2014
Lebanon
Weekend Listening/Viewing/Reading: Satire in the Middle East, Saudi Arabia’s "Garden," and Lebanese Relief Workers
Karl Sharro discusses Lebanese politics and the role of satire in political analysis of the Middle East on Karl Morand’s Middle East Week Podcast. Pascal Menoret’s photographic journey of the cit…
July 18, 2019
United States
Who Counts in the 2020 U.S. Census?
If the Trump administration succeeds in securing citizenship data, the 2020 census could transform the way in which political power is distributed in the United States.
March 5, 2014
Global
Economic Development and the Tyranny of Experts
Isobel Coleman hosts William Easterly, author of The Tyranny of Experts: Economists, Dictators, and the Forgotten Rights of the Poor and professor of economics at New York University, for a discussio…
February 3, 2015
Middle East and North Africa
Schabas Resigns....A Bit Late
How does this seem, for basic fairness: A judge presides over a trial. The defendant complains about his bias, but the judge does not recuse himself. He runs the trial, and at its end he writes his …
July 24, 2020
Wars and Conflict
Five Movies Worth Watching About Revolts, Rebellions, and Revolutions
Each Friday this summer, we suggest foreign-policy-themed movies worth watching. This week: movies about uprisings.
