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Book Discussion on Contested Terrain: Reflections with Afghan Women Leaders
Sally Kitch talked about her book, Contested Terrain: Reflections with Afghan Women Leaders, about the experiences of two professional Afghan women...
High Hopes and Missed Opportunities in Iraq: A Conversation with Author Emma Sky
When Emma Sky, a British civilian, volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, her assignment was only supposed to...
Sudden Justice: America's Secret Drone Wars
Drone warfare has quickly become the norm. Since taking office, President Obama has carried out 300 more covert strikes than President Bush did in...
Societal Aspects of Synthetic Biology
Who should govern synthetic biology? What are the ethical dimensions and visions for its desirable futures? How could we facilitate better and closer...
ISIS: State of Terror
In 2014, ISIS shocked the world with their brutality and the speed with which they took a large swath of Iraqi and Syrian territory. One year later,...
Giant Leap: The Race to Mars and Back
Humans have long been fixated on Mars, first as a metaphor of what lies beyond our reach, and now, increasingly, as a destination - for our probes,...
Address by Secretary of Defense Ashton B. Carter
On April 6, 2015, Dr. Michael Crow, President of Arizona State University and Ambassador Kurt Volker, Executive Director of The McCain Institute for...
Abducted Abroad: Returning American Hostages
Hostage-taking, particularly the capture of Westerners, has emerged as a prominent jihadist tactic in recent years. In Syria and Iraq, ISIS has...
Bridging the Civil-Military Divide : The Role of the Media
In July 1997, Thomas E. Ricks wrote an article for the Atlantic that detailed the widening gap between the U.S. military and the American public....
The Great American Art of Failure
From 18th-century political revolutionaries to the first dudes to skateboard down a half-pipe, Americans have risked life and limb in pursuit of...
Our Data, Our Health
Mobile devices are collecting and disseminating a wealth of data about our health-from smartphone-based glucose monitors to Wi-Fi-enabled pacemakers....
Bridging the Democracy Gap: World Wide Views on Climate and Energy
What percentage of scientists believe that climate change is occurring mostly because of human activity? What percentage of the US public believe...