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Today: Robert Stavins talks about "An Assessment of the Work So Far at COP26;" Anatol Lieven discusses "Great Power Competition is in the Way of the Real National Security Threat, Climate Change;" and Joel Rogers on "Exaggerated Alarm at the Alleged Demise of the Democrats"