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Tag Archives: Barack Obama

The Electoral College’s Racist Origins

4 November 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Wilfred Codrington III The Atlantic Is a color-blind political system possible under our Constitution? If it is, the Supreme Court’s evisceration of the Voting Rights Act in 2013 did […]

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How You’re Tricked Into Believing Fake News

20 June 2020by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Katy Steinmetz Time Sitting in front of a computer not long ago, a tenured history professor faced a challenge that billions of us do every day: deciding whether to […]

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The Moral Logic of Humanitarian Intervention

10 September 2019by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Dexter Filkins The New Yorker or eight years, Samantha Power served President Obama as an aide and then as U.N. Ambassador but also as an in-house conscience on matters […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW, NATIONAL SECURITY

Losing the South China Sea

1 August 2017by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Bill Hayton Foreign Policy Vietnam’s history is full of heroic tales of resistance to China. But this month Hanoi bent the knee to Beijing, humiliated in a contest over […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

Japan, the United States, and Public Memory

28 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Claire Greenstein & Brandon Tensley Foreign Affairs Seventy-five years after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the countries that were involved in World War II’s […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

A U.S. Retreat From TPP Will Empower China

22 November 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

Editorial The New York Times The limits of President Obama’s ability to reassure the world about America’s future role in the international sphere was apparent at the summit meeting of […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Developing Pragmatic Military Strategy

30 August 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Andrew J. Bacevich Foreign Affairs During the Cold War, the United States preferred to husband, rather than expend, its military power. The idea was not to fight but to defend, […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, NATIONAL SECURITY

The Truth About International Trade

20 June 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Douglas A. Irwin Foreign Affairs Just because a U.S. presidential candidate bashes free trade on the campaign trail does not mean that he or she cannot embrace it once […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

The State of the Cuban Internet

4 May 2016by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Rick Paulas Pacific Standard Cuba’s lagged behind on Internet penetration from the beginning. The reasons are multi-tiered, but all can be explained by their unique government. The fall of […]

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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS, LAW

Obama’s Incomplete Arctic Energy Approach

28 September 2015by TheThresh.com Leave a comment

By Andreas Kuersten The Hill As President Obama tours Alaska this week, cries of hypocrisy fill the air.  He is using these three days to highlight the effects of climate […]

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