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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker announcing agreement yesterday.

The UK and EU agree on a new Protocol. But will the House approve the agreement?

Yesterday morning, after a week-long negotiating marathon and only a few hours before the meeting of the European Council, the EU and the UK agreed on a withdrawal agreement that contains a modified Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland and agreed also on a new Political Declaration setting the...

Douglas Rae, Richard Ely Professor of Management Emeritus at Yale

Distinguished political scientist to give Stimson lecture series on "Capitalism: Knowledge Drives Wealth"

Douglas Rae, Richard Ely Professor of Management Emeritus at Yale, will give a series of three lectures this month on “Capitalism: Knowledge Drives Wealth” for the Henry L. Stimson Lectures on World Affairs at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale....

Phyllis Mugadza ’21 B.S.

A Young Global Scholar explores entrepreneurship at Yale

Phyllis Mugadza ’21 B.S. says she wasn’t entirely familiar with the U.S. college experience when attending high school in Zimbabwe, but when she learned about the Yale Young African Scholars (YYAS) program, she applied and was...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar discussing the backstop at Wirral last Thursday.

After Johnson-Varadkar meeting, Brexit negotiations resume, aim for deal by Thursday

For more than a week after the UK gave the EU a 44-page draft legal text of a new Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, it appeared highly unlikely they would be able to agree on a modified withdrawal agreement prior to this Thursday’s meeting of the European Council. As Michel Barnier, the EU’s...

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Ukrainian Corruption Is Trump’s Native Language

The following article written by Marci Shore, an associate professor of history at Yale, appeared in the October 12 issue of Foreign Policy. Professor Shore is the author of “The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe.” She is also the author of “The Ukrainian Night:...

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