The State Department released its yearly publication, Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, 2011, on May 24, 2012.

Egyptians' first free presidential election is a test of the power of Islamist parties, and the new president will shape the country's future by helping craft a new constitution as well as a new relationship with parliament and the military, says CFR's Isobel Coleman.

William C. Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, discusses monetary policy.

This meeting was part of the C. Peter McColough series on International Economics.

William C. Dudley, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, discusses monetary policy.

This meeting was part of the C. Peter McColough series on International Economics.

Michael Spence surveys a variety of economic development models, highlighting the problems of long-term sustainability inherent to each.

The World Health Assembly in Geneva this week needs to do more to define a workable mission for the struggling World Health Organization.

The International Instrument to Enable States to Identify and Trace, in a Timely and Reliable Manner, Illicit Small Arms and Light Weapons was adopted by the UN General Assembly on December 8, 2005.

The White House released this strategy document, "Digital Government: Building a 21st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People" on May 23, 2012.

Listen to U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO Ivo Daalder discuss the Chicago NATO Summit with Foreign Affairs editor Gideon Rose and the Chicago Council on Global Affairs' Rachel Bronson.

The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Customs and Border Protection released this publication in May 2012.

Secretary of State Clinton gave these remarks on the Law of the Sea Convention before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on May 23, 2012.

Talks in Baghdad reflect Iran's new willingness to discuss its nuclear program, but sanctions may not sting enough to make it change course, says expert Hassan Hakimian.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney released this white paper on education, "A Chance For Every Child: Mitt Romney's Plan for Restoring the Promise of American Education", on May 23, 2012.

President Obama gave these remarks at the Air Force Academy commencement on May 23, 2012 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Leonid Kishkovsky, director of external affairs and interchurch relations for the Orthodox Church in America, leads a conversation on the relationship between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin, and the standing of religious minorities in Russia, as part of CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Conference Call series.

Learn more about CFR's Religion and Foreign Policy Initiative.

Julia E. Sweig analyzes President Obama's historic announcement in support of marriage equality for same-sex couples.

Joshua Kurlantzick says, "... Thailand, once a poster child for democratization in the developing world, has undergone perhaps the most rapid and severest democratic regression in the entire world."

John Harwood of the New York Times compares the current presidential candidates' different ideas of government and how they reflect the divergent ideologies and core constituencies of the two parties.

Peter Orszag explains that, when U.S. officials adopt policies carefully designed to produce future federal deficit reductions, most of those reductions do eventually happen.

The Chicago summit attempted to map a new NATO agenda, but instability in Afghanistan and the European fiscal crisis still cloud the alliance's path, says CFR's Charles Kupchan.