Anonymous's blog Brazil hosted – and won for the fourth time- the Confederation Cup last month, a sort of practice run for the FIFA World Cup to be held in Brazil in 2014. But outside Maracana stadium in Rio and in several cities across the country, ...
Anonymous's blog Highlights from "Feeding an Urban World: A Call to Action" By The Chicago Council on Global Affairs Emerging Leaders Class of 2013 There has been much attention paid lately to the progress made on the United Nations Millen ...
Anonymous's blog By Michael Shellenberger, President, and Ted Nordhaus, Chairman of the Breakthrough Institute President Obama’s big climate speech this week was historic, but not for the reasons many observers have suggested. To his credit, Obama ...
Anonymous's blog President Obama’s Georgetown Speech and Public Opinion “We don’t have time for a meeting of the flat-earth society.”- President Obama on climate change deniers Sandwiched between the George Zimmerman trial and Supreme Court announc ...
Anonymous's blog President Obama spoke at the Brandenburg Gate today, fifty years after JFK made his illustrious declaration “ Ich bin ein Berliner.” He touched on a wide range of topics- including poverty, climate change and nuclear disarmament- and ...
Anonymous's blog By Dina Smeltz and Craig Kafura With a vote of 84-15, the Senate has voted to take up S.744 (Comprehensive Immigration Reform) for floor debate. One of the issues central to that debate is border security and the fate of the estimate ...
Anonymous's blog Sun Zhe, director of the Center for Sino-US relations at Qinghua University in Beijing, characterized US-China relations as “sweet and sour,” according to a USA Today article this week. That’s a useful way to describe American publi ...
Anonymous's blog Immigration reform is on the move: a comprehensive immigration reform bill, S. 744, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 21 by a vote of 13-5, with a full Senate vote expected to take place this summer. A recent op ed in t ...
Anonymous's blog President Obama will be discussing his administration’s drone program and other elements of his counterterrorism strategy in a speech he will deliver today at the National Defense University. Drones have been a big topic here at The ...
Anonymous's blog By Gregory Holyk, Research Analyst at Langer Research, and Dina Smeltz, Senior Fellow, The Chicago Council If Kim Jong-un was trying to get our attention, he’s certainly succeeded. An April 12-15 Chicago Council survey (fielded bef ...
