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• Reading Rainbow

  We sent our new report off to the printer at OOB yesterday (well, our fearless designer/producer, the intrepid Liz Fontaine did), so I’ve been trying to catch up on my massive...

• This Weekend's News: China and Latin America and The Onion

  We have been pumping hard on some writing deadlines last week and through the weekend, so this is going to be short and sweet. After laboring to wrap up our series on how clim...

• 5 Questions with Someone Interesting: Michael Nash

  I recently had the good fortune to drop by the British Embassy for a viewing of filmmaker Michael Nash’s most recent film Climate Refugees. After the event, I had a chance to ...

• Read This Now: Nat Geo’s Special Issue on Water

  As the headline states, I recommend to anyone reading this blog that they give a glance to the current special edition of National Geographic on water issues. It highlights wa...

• Breaking the Safe Haven: Minerals in Waziristan

  Yesterday’s attack on the U.S. consulate in Peshawar has brought the insurgency in western Pakistan back into the headlines. The consulate serves as the headquarters for ongoi...

• America Needs an Internet Agenda

  Google's announcement that it has stopped censoring results from its Chinese search engine has captured global attention, but developments on the Internet freedom front are co...

• The Most Depressing Statistic of the Week

  Most everyone agrees the Presidential Management Fellowship is one of the federal government's best programs, as it allows smart young Americans fresh out of graduate school a...

• A Mess Indeed: Security in the Middle East

  I had lunch with Amos Harel of Ha'aretz a few months ago in Tel Aviv, and he floated the idea of starting a blog on security issues in the Middle East that would reach a large...

• (EXTRA) Spotlight on the Hill: Rare Earth Minerals and 21st Century Industry

  Yesterday, I caught a webcast of the House Committee on Science and Technology Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight hearing over Rare Earth Minerals and 21st Century I...

• JOE 2008 vs. JOE 2010: Climate Change

  The 2010 Joint Operating Environment (JOE; PDF), recently released by Joint Forces Command, offers a slightly more robust assessment on the implications of climate change for ...

• This Weekend’s News: Iran, Energy and Us

  Big, big natural security news from The New York Times this weekend. You know how we’ve been sanctioning Iran and discouraging U.S. investment in its energy sector? Well – pre...

• Book Review: Global Warring

  In a post-Snowpocalyptic world, climate change scientists have found themselves defending their work against climate change skeptics who are using the historic winter weather ...

• The Weekend News: Chu Tour 2010

  Last week, the U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu undertook what I would characterize as an energy diplomacy tour of the Middle East, spending the first two days of his four ...

• Read This Now: Niger: The Coup and Uranium

  Last week Stratfor issued a cool piece, “Niger: The Coup and Uranium.” This is straight up natural security reading for you, dear readers. You can get the full article in exch...

• This Weekend's News: Big Natural Security Elections – Ukraine Thinks Gas while Venezuela Explores Geoengineering

  The biggest natural security news through the long D.C. snowpocalypse weekend involved coverage of two energy-important elections, one now held and the other to come later thi...

• This Weekend’s News: Energy Efficiency

  We often hear the argument that energy and climate policy should focus on efficiency in the near term, leaving switching to more sustainable energy sources to the future. Yest...

• Read This Now: "A Post-Copenhagen Pathway" by CSIS’s Sarah Ladislaw

  CSIS Senior Fellow and energy über-analyst Sarah Ladislaw released a short policy paper last week, “A Post-Copenhagen Pathway.”  (Our colleague Dan covered CSIS’s related even...

• The Most Important Thing You'll Read on Afghanistan This Month

  This summer, as Gen. McChrystal took command in Afghanistan, it became clear to both him and his intelligence chief, Maj. Gen. Mike Flynn, that the way we gather and process i...

• This Weekend’s News: Looking Back and Looking Ahead

  This long holiday weekend, the plethora of commentary on the state of the economy at the beginning of 2010, dissections of the past and projections for the future all indirect...

• This Weekend's News: A Winter Wonderland...and Copenhagen

  The big story for many of us this weekend was, of course, the monster blizzard that slammed the East Coast on Friday night, continuing through Sunday, stranding thousands duri...