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As home insurers pull out of climate-threatened regions around the United States, Why It Matters examines the emerging risks for homeowners, and the U.S. economy.
Accelerating risks and damage from climate change are spurring private insurers in the United States to limit coverage in a growing number of areas, thus imposing mounting stress on local communities and straining the country’s overall economic health.
Ukraine
If Western allies fail to send Ukraine the weapons it needs, the odds of the war dragging on increase, posing a terrible cost to Ukraine, Russia, and the wider world.
Six graphics illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in its war against Russian invaders.
India
Canada’s stunning allegations of an India-directed plot to kill Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar has stirred frictions between two major democracies and raised questions about India’s global actions to protect its interests.
External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar of India discusses India-U.S. relations, India’s G-20 presidency, and diplomacy in the current era of rapid technological evolution.
Immigration and Migration
Temporary protected status has long been used as a humanitarian solution for migrants who are unable to return home safely, but efforts to give them a path to citizenship have reignited the debate around the U.S. immigration policy.
The Western Hemisphere needs regional solutions to make the most of the migration wave it faces.
United Nations
The world’s nations are lagging woefully behind in meeting targets for achieving gender equality by 2030, but a new round of initiatives has stirred hope of progress.
CFR mourns the passing of James F. Hoge Jr., a transformative former editor of Foreign Affairs and CFR member of forty-eight years.
Events
Panelists assess the current state of human rights in the Middle East, along with the impact of U.S foreign policy on human rights, regional partnerships, and geopolitical dynamics.
Robots and Artificial Intelligence
Technology and foreign policy experts discuss the paradoxical nature of artificial intelligence’s extraordinary growth opportunities and its significant potential for disruption and risk, as well as the necessity of establishing new governance mechanisms to both control and harness this potentially defining technology.
Ian Johnson discusses his new book, Sparks: China’s Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future, which describes how some of China’s best-known writers, filmmakers, and artists have overcome crackdowns and censorship to forge a nationwide movement that challenges the Communist Party on its most hallowed ground: its control of history.
Expert Spotlight
Zongyuan Zoe Liu
Maurice R. Greenberg Fellow for China Studies
Roger W. Ferguson Jr.
Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics
Esther Brimmer
James H. Binger Senior Fellow in Global Governance
Christopher M. Tuttle
Senior Fellow and Director of the Renewing America Initiative
Congresses and Parliaments Polls and Public Opinion Elections and Voting
James M. Lindsay
Senior Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
United States Politics and Government Polls and Public Opinion
Stephen Biddle
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Defense Policy
Sheila A. Smith
John E. Merow Senior Fellow for Asia-Pacific Studies
Jennifer Nuzzo
Senior Fellow for Global Health
Health Public Health Threats and Pandemics Health Policy and Initiatives
Ebenezer Obadare
Douglas Dillon Senior Fellow for Africa Studies
Richard Haass
President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
Brad W. Setser
Whitney Shepardson Senior Fellow
Martin S. Indyk
Lowy Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-Middle East Diplomacy
Robert D. Blackwill
Henry A. Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy
Steven A. Cook
Eni Enrico Mattei Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies and Director of the International Affairs Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars
John B. Bellinger III
Adjunct Senior Fellow for International and National Security Law
Robert E. Rubin
Chairman Emeritus; Former Secretary of the U.S. Treasury
Shannon K. O'Neil
Vice President, Deputy Director of Studies, and Nelson and David Rockefeller Senior Fellow for Latin America Studies
Stephen Sestanovich
George F. Kennan Senior Fellow for Russian and Eurasian Studies
Henri J. Barkey
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Ann Norris
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Linda Robinson
Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
Matthew C. Waxman
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy
Jennifer Hillman
Senior Fellow for Trade and International Political Economy
Paul B. Stares
General John W. Vessey Senior Fellow for Conflict Prevention and Director of the Center for Preventive Action
Ray Takeyh
Hasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Adjunct Senior Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy
David P. Fidler
Senior Fellow for Global Health and Cybersecurity
Kenneth S. Rogoff
Senior Fellow for Economics
Explainers
Abortion Law: Global Comparisons
Mexico recently decriminalized abortion, continuing a global trend of expanding permissions for the procedure. See how countries worldwide approach the issue.
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