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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.
“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.
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.
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