Making the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals attainable, why climate change is so political, and reevaluating the U.S.-Saudi relationship.
| | September 24, 2019 Editor’s note: In line with our commitment to inclusion and diversity, Brookings is modernizing its style guide to properly recognize the identity of Black Americans and other people of ethnic and indigenous descent in our research and writings. Read more about this update. |
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| | Foreign Policy magazine and Brookings have teamed up for a new podcast, called And Now the Hard Part, focused on real-world solutions to the world’s toughest problems. In the first episode, Bruce Riedel draws on his 30 years of experience working in the CIA to assess the fraught relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Salman’s recklessness, and what Congress can do about the war in Yemen. Listen to the podcast |
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| | “Given the severity of the climate crisis and the potential for existential damage to the human race and planet, the lack of intensity around the issue is simultaneously incomprehensible and totally understandable,” Elaine Kamarck writes. Read more |
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| | As part of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, member countries agreed to “leave no one behind,” a broad promise to address the pervasive and damaging problems of inequality and exclusion. Homi Kharas and John McArthur explain how to turn this admirable slogan into a practical agenda. Read more |
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