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Former Vice President Al Gore provided his latest assessment of the environment and talked about efforts to combat climate change. The former vice president was the chair of the Climate Reality…

Panelists discussed three broad topics regarding the role of the U.S. president in world: declining American influence, the resilience of the liberal international order, and the rise of…

Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum talked about their book, That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back. They responded to telephone…

Thomas Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum argued that the U.S. is facing four major challenges - the globalization of business, the revolution in information technology, the nation’s chronic…

Robert Kagan talked about his book Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World from Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the 20th Century, published by Knopf. He described U.S. global power and…

Mr. Friedman delivered a speech titled “American Foreign Policy after 9/11.” He is the author of Longitudes and Attitudes: Exploring the World After September 11, published by Farrar, Strauss and…

Joseph Stiglitz and Thomas Friedman discussed the pros and cons of economic globalization. Joseph Stiglitz’s latest book is Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development, published by Oxford…

Senator Lugar and columnist Thomas Friedman talked about energy policy and national security. Mr. Naim moderated the event which focused on rising costs of oil and gasoline, levels of American…

At St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, Thomas Friedman spoke about the new paperback edition of his book, Longitudes and Attitudes: The World in the Age of Terrorism, published by Anchor. The book contains Mr.…

Participants talked about developing democracies in the Middle East and Arab world. Among the topics they addressed were reconstruction efforts in Iraq, the influence of Islam in the…

Analysts talked about how September 11 terrorist attacks against the U.S. had changed the political environment and the impact on U.S. foreign policy. Among the issues they addressed were…

Participants talked about trade with China and including China in the World Trade organization. Among the issues they addressed were the recent Asian economic crisis, tensions between China…