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March 25, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Gambia Moves to Reverse Ban on Female Genital Mutilation

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers March 16 to March 22.

Gambians protest against a bill aimed at decriminalizing female genital mutilation as parliament debates the bill in Banjul, Gambia March, 18, 2024.
Blog Post by Noël James Women Around the World

September 6, 2005

Elections and Voting
Interview with Ayman Nour on Egypt’s Elections

An interview with Ayman Nour shortly before his arrest in 2005. Nour, a pro-democracy Egyptian dissident, was released after three years in prison on February 18, 2009.

Interview by Ayman Nour and Sharon Otterman

January 21, 2011

Middle East and North Africa
CFR Interview: “Will Tunisia Inspire More Popular Uprisings?”

The CFR web site contains an interview of me yesterday by CFR’s Bernard Gwertzman on the impact on the broader Middle East and North Africa of the political changes that continue to unfold in Tunisia…

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

March 22, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Are Americans Turning Isolationist?

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Much like talk of Mark Twain’s death, claims that Americans are turning their back on the world are…

The sun as viewed disappearing beneath the horizon.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

April 5, 2024

Technology and Innovation
Cyber Week in Review: April 5, 2024

DeSantis signs teen social restrictions into law; CRSB releases report on Microsoft hack; report claims Meta and Google promote health disinformation; OpenAI discloses voice engine model; Google will…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs five state house bills into law after giving a press conference at Cambridge Christian School in Tampa, Florida on May 17, 2023.
Blog Post by Kat Duffy, Kyle Fendorf, and Cecilia Marrinan Net Politics

February 21, 2024

Russia
Screening and Discussion of "Putin vs The West: At War"

Putin vs The West, a three-part series produced by Brook Lapping, tells the inside story of how the West has struggled to deal with Vladimir Putin, told by the presidents and prime ministers who work…

Play U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin seated in front of a display of books, with the flags of both nations in the background.
Event by Fiona Hill, Tim Stirzaker, Dara G. Massicot, Serge Schmemann, and Norma Percy

March 13, 2013

The Renewing America Interview: Robert Reischauer on Fiscal Reform

This week, for the first time in more than ninety years, both houses of Congress put out their annual budget proposals before the White House, an anomaly that reflects the topsy-turvy world of fiscal…

A view of the House of Representatives Building and the East Portico of the U.S. Capitol (Ron Cogswell/Courtesy Flickr).
Blog Post by Jonathan Masters Renewing America