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Turkey and Transatlantic Relations

Edited by Sasha Toperich and Aylin Ünver Noi

2018

Constituents hold up signs during town hall

Podcast Episode

On Tea Party activism and Trump opposition

Vanessa Williamson

Wednesday, February 22, 2017

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Vanessa Williamson

Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Senior Fellow - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

Residents of the Praia Nova neighbourhood seek shelter from Tropical Cyclone Eloise, in Beira, Mozambique, January 23, 2021. Picture taken January 23, 2021. UNICEF/Franco/Handout via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Kenya-Somali relations sour, Cyclone Eloise hits Mozambique, and tensions in and around Ethiopia escalate

Christina Golubski and Leo Holtz

Saturday, January 30, 2021

(L to R) Former Chinese president Hu Jintao, Chinese President Xi Jinping and former Chinese president Jiang Zemin raise their hands as they take a vote at the closing session of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, in Beijing, China October 24, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC186FB9D730

Future Development

Reading the tea leaves of China’s 19th Party Congress

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

The skyline of Detroit, Michigan is seen from Windsor, January 4, 2012. Saddled with crippling debt, mounting labor costs, and onerous union contracts, the city that paved the auto industry's success is in need of a bailout of its own. Picture taken January 4, 2012. To match Feature DETROIT/GLOOM REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS SOCIETY CITYSPACE) - GM1E819058R01

Report

The “privatization” of municipal debt

Ivan T. Ivanov and Tom Zimmermann

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Officials count the presidential election ballots in Abidjan, Ivory Coast October 31, 2020. REUTERS/Luc Gnago

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Unrest in Ethiopia, contentious elections results in Tanzania and Côte d’Ivoire, and a new UK-Kenya trade deal

Saturday, November 7, 2020

People hold signs at a Tea Party Patriots rally calling for the repeal of the 2010 healthcare law championed by President Barack Obama, on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 24, 2012. The Supreme Court will hear arguments next Monday to Wednesday over the fate of Obama's healthcare law, a battle with legal, political and financial implications for the U.S. healthcare system's biggest overhaul in nearly 50 years. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS HEALTH CIVIL UNREST) - RTR2ZTA0

FixGov

What the Tea Party tells us about the Trump presidency

Vanessa Williamson

Wednesday, November 9, 2016

A man casts his vote at a polling station during Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections in Kyebi, Ghana December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Francis Kokoroko

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Elections in Ghana, US relations with Somalia and Morocco, and trade in East Africa

Saturday, December 12, 2020

File photo - Chad, Ennedi, Amdjarass, arrival of President Idriss Deby with his wife in his native village and official welcome at the airport. Chads President Idriss Deby has died while visiting troops on the front line of a fight against northern rebels, an army spokesman said on Tuesday, the day after Deby was declared the winner of a sixth term in office. Deby's campaign said on Monday that he was headed to the front lines to join troops battling "terrorists". Photo by Pascal Avenet/ABACAPRESS.COM

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: President Déby of Chad dies; Kenya, DRC sign trade and security deals; and Cape Town survives massive fire

Tamara White, Leo Holtz, and Christina Golubski

Saturday, April 24, 2021

Pipelines are seen at Zueitina oil terminal, in west of Benghazi, Libya February 3, 2020. Picture taken February 3, 2020. REUTERS/Esam Omran Al-Fetori

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Natural resource update, security updates, and COVID-19’s third wave in Africa

Mary Blankenship, Leo Holtz, and Tamara White

Saturday, July 17, 2021

A member of the French Red Cross disinfects the area around a motionless person suspected of carrying the Ebola virus as a crowd gathers in Forecariah January 30, 2015. Health officials botched more than 20 Ebola blood tests in January and February which led to the release of at least four positive patients, two of whom later died, Guinea's anti-Ebola coordinator and other health officials told Reuters. Picture taken January 30, 2015. REUTERS/Misha Hussain (GUINEA - Tags: DISASTER HEALTH)

Africa in Focus

Africa in the News: Risk of Ebola outbreak grows, South African economy rebounds, and politics update

Chris Heitzig and Leo Holtz

Saturday, March 13, 2021

Participants carry a large U.S. flag during a march for immigration reform in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, October 5, 2013. REUTERS/David McNew (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS)

FixGov

Can Biden pass immigration reform? History says it will be tough

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Sudan's Sovereign Council Chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, and Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok lift copies of a signed peace agreement with the country's five key rebel groups, a significant step towards resolving deep-rooted conflicts that raged under former leader Omar al-Bashir, in Juba, South Sudan August 31, 2020. REUTERS/Samir Bol

Africa in Focus

Africa in the news: Sudan peace deal, Ethiopia elections, and Eastern and Southern Africa updates

Saturday, September 12, 2020

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Op-Ed

Friendly fire can be effective: Ask the Tea Party

Vanessa Williamson

Saturday, August 15, 2015