Day 2 of the UN’s Post-2015 Summit was not quite as hectic as the previous day, but there were still some key announcements made as world leaders were speaking all over the building at various events. The UN Global Compact’s...
The Pope’s address to the United Nations today is one of those moments where it’s useful to take a step back and understand his remarks not in the context of the day-to-day drumbeat of the news, but through a wider...
It was high drama, UN style. Negotiations went late into the night…sometimes very late, with sessions breaking at 5:30 am. And, unusually for the United Nations, deep into the weekend. At issue was a the line-by-line negotiation of the final...
Pope Francis is coming to Washington, D.C. John Boehner announced that the the Pope will address a joint session of Congress on September 24, making him the first Pope to do so. The timing here is instructive. The Pope was...
