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(USA) Bill Gates and Warren Buffet should thank American taxpayers for their profitable farmland investments (AEI)

Vincent H. Smith, Eric J. Belasco Bill Gates is now the largest owner of farmland in the U.S. having made substantial investments in at least 19 states throughout the...

(USA) Biden risks the future to juice the present (AEI)

James Pethokoukis America is about to run a pretty wild experiment. And hardly a riskless one. After the nearly $2 trillion American Rescue Plan is passed and...

(USA) How stimulus could backfire against low-wage workers (AEI)

Michael R. Strain Don't trust assurances that the Fed won't panic over bursts of inflation and cut short the recovery before it starts to help...

(USA/Germany/Austria/Europe) Biden must persuade Germany and Austria to stop the “Schroederization” of Europe (Atlantic Council)

Anders Åslund and Benjamin L. Schmitt For decades, German foreign policy toward the Soviet Union, and then the Russian Federation, has been based on the...

(USA/Europe) The pandemic and electricity transformation in the United States and the European Union: Developments in 2020 (Atlantic Council)

Robert F. Ichord, Jr. As the United States under the new Biden-Harris administration and the European Union (EU), now minus the United Kingdom, pursue pandemic...

(UN) Consult the Community: Picking the Next UN Humanitarian Chief (CSIS)

Jacob Kurtzer On February 7, Mark Lowcock announced his retirement as the under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator and head of the UN...

(UN/Libya) UN Mediation in Libya (CSIS)

This week on Babel, Jon Alterman talks with Stephanie Williams, formerly the acting special representative of the UN Secretary-General and the head of the UN...

(Subsea Network/USA/China) Securing the Subsea Network: A Primer for Policymakers (CSIS)

Jonathan E. Hillman The United States’ position as the world’s leading hub in subsea networks can no longer be taken for granted. More of the...

(Japan) Reflections on the 10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake (CSIS)

Michael Jonathan Green, Nicholas Szechenyi March 11 marks the 10th anniversary of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident that caused widespread damage along...

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