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What's Inside
Gideon Rose
Where to Go From Here
Rebooting American Foreign Policy
Richard N. Haass
Trump the Traditionalist
A Surprisingly Standard Foreign Policy
Elliott Abrams
The Right Way to Reform Health Care
To Cut Costs, Empower Patients
Sejal Hathi and Bob Kocher
A Tale of Two Tax Plans
What Trump and Ryan Get Wrong
Alex Raskolnikov
Essays:
A New Truman Doctrine
Grand Strategy in a Hyperconnected World
Tim Kaine
Why Globalization Stalled
And How to Restart It
Fred Hu and Michael Spence
Course Correction
How to Stop China's Maritime Advance
Ely Ratner
Trump and the Environment
What His Plans Would Do
Fred Krupp
Paris Isn't Burning
Why the Climate Agreement Will Survive Trump
Brian Deese
Don't Follow the Money
The Problem With the War on Terrorist Financing
Peter R. Neumann
Keine Atombombe, Bitte
Why Germany Should Not Go Nuclear
Ulrich Kühn and Tristan Volpe
Start-Up Palestine
How to Spark a West Bank Tech Boom
Yadin Kaufmann
The Next Energy Revolution
The Promise and Peril of High-Tech Innovation
David G. Victor and Kassia Yanosek
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November 19, 2017
"In January, when Donald Tusk, the President of the European Council, ranked the threats facing the EU, he highlighted not just the traditional menaces of jihadism and Russian aggression but also "worrying declarations by the new American administration." Across the continent, leaders feared that Trump would support populist forces seeking to break up the EU or trade away the U.S. nuclear guarantee of European security in a grand bargain with Russia."
That's really what politics is about today, isn't it? Russia resurgent, a U.S. that behaves unpredictably and against it's own interests in the long and short term with the rest of the world stuck in the middle trying to survive and not let either of these countries drag them down.
"In 2015, China installed more than one wind turbine every hour, on average, and enough solar panels to cover over two dozen soccer fields every day, according to Greenpeace. As part of it's drive to clean up dangerous air pollution in Chinese cities, Beijing has canceled the construction of more than 100 coal fired power plants this year alone. Such measures, coupled with Xi's commitment to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, have turned Xi into a global leader on energy and the environment, filling a void created by the man who sat across the table from him at Mar-a-lago."
I wish there was a way to explain to people how badly the United States has lost control of it's reputation and how far we've slipped in the eyes of the world. But the sad truth is, the people who are going to suffer by the decisions being made in the current administration are the same people who voted for it. Coal is never coming back. No one wants the crap. Mine it all you want. Low skill and no skill jobs are not going to pay well anymore. Period. This isn't 1950. If you have no skills then you are in direct competition with no-skill workers all over the world. Period.
I could go on, but reading about it and living it is depressing enough. I don't want to write about the present state of affairs any more than I have to.
That's really what politics is about today, isn't it? Russia resurgent, a U.S. that behaves unpredictably and against it's own interests in the long and short term with the rest of the world stuck in the middle trying to survive and not let either of these countries drag them down.
"In 2015, China installed more than one wind turbine every hour, on average, and enough solar panels to cover over two dozen soccer fields every day, according to Greenpeace. As part of it's drive to clean up dangerous air pollution in Chinese cities, Beijing has canceled the construction of more than 100 coal fired power plants this year alone. Such measures, coupled with Xi's commitment to the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change, have turned Xi into a global leader on energy and the environment, filling a void created by the man who sat across the table from him at Mar-a-lago."
I wish there was a way to explain to people how badly the United States has lost control of it's reputation and how far we've slipped in the eyes of the world. But the sad truth is, the people who are going to suffer by the decisions being made in the current administration are the same people who voted for it. Coal is never coming back. No one wants the crap. Mine it all you want. Low skill and no skill jobs are not going to pay well anymore. Period. This isn't 1950. If you have no skills then you are in direct competition with no-skill workers all over the world. Period.
I could go on, but reading about it and living it is depressing enough. I don't want to write about the present state of affairs any more than I have to.
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