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Otto von Bismarck, by George Gibbs. Cover of "Saturday Evening Post" Magazine, 1903. <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturday_evening_post_1903_11_28_a.jpg">Public domain</a>.

JUL 11, 2017 Podcast

Conversation with Raymond Kuo: Can Trump be a Bismarck in Asia?

"This has happened before where we've had a great power who is essentially the leader of the international system taking a transactional approach. The closest ...

Brazos Wind Farm near Fluvanna, Texas. CREDIT: <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:GreenMountainWindFarm_Fluvanna_2004.jpg">Leaflet</a>

JUL 10, 2017 Podcast

The Earth Institute's Steven Cohen Offers Hope for a Sustainable Future

"I still believe that we're heading toward a renewable resource-based economy. I think that it's inevitable," declares Steven Cohen. How will we get there? A ...

JUL 6, 2017 Podcast

Tom Nichols on the Death of Expertise

Across the world today, there is active hostility towards experts, says Tom Nichols of the U.S. Naval War College, and this is a very ...

CREDIT: <a hre="https://www.flickr.com/photos/felibrilu/4120677347/">felibrilu</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/">CC</a>)

JUN 29, 2017 Podcast

Amitai Etzioni on Avoiding War with China

The result of a war with China? "At best we have to spend hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons nobody will use which are ...

The timeless image of 'Earthrise' seen from the moon by U.S. astronauts in the 1960s and '70s. But would potentially risky geoengineering be a step too far in humanity's technical and scientific progression? CREDIT: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1249.html">NASA</a>

JUN 28, 2017 Article

Humanitarians Hope for ‘Risk Management Framework’ on Geoengineering – a Carnegie Discussion

"The potential impacts of geoengineering remain so uncertain as to be quite unknown; what seems clear is that in a geoengineered future there would be ...