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June 17, 2025

Elections and Voting
Women This Week: Female Voters Propel Liberal Presidential Candidate to Victory in South Korea

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 May 31 to June 6.

August 1, 2024

Elections and Voting
Women This Week: María Corina Machado Leads Protests in Venezuela

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 July 27 to August 2.

Opposition leader Maria Corina Machado and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez gesture as they address supporters after election results awarded Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro with a third term, in Caracas, Venezuela July 30, 2024.

February 20, 2025

Cybersecurity
New Entries in the CFR Cyber Operations Tracker: Q2 2024

An update of the Council on Foreign Relations' Cyber Operations Tracker for the period between April and June 2024.

CFR Cyber Operations Tracker

October 2, 2024

Budget, Debt, and Deficits
Who’s Afraid of the National Debt?

The United States national debt is rising to levels not seen since World War II. Many economists say Washington is on an unsustainable track, but no one knows when it will pass the point of crisis. W…

Podcast People walk in front of a bus stop with a sign saying the national debt is $104,151 per person.

October 11, 2018

Global Governance
Global Governance to Combat Illicit Financial Flows

Illicit financial flows are one of the most important features of globalization’s dark side. However, unlike other illicit or dangerous cross-border flows, these flows bear almost no markers in and of themselves.

Replicas of Brazilian banknotes are hung on a clothesline during a protest of the national union of prosecutors against money laundering in Brazil, at the Esplanade of Ministries in Brasilia, on March 18, 2015. (Ueslei Marcelino/Reuters)

November 16, 2020

Technology and Innovation
Revisiting Section 230: The Implications Are International

In reconsidering the provision, it is important to be mindful of the risk of overcorrections and unintended consequences.

CEO of Google and Alphabet Sundar Pichai appears on a monitor as he testifies remotely during the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee hearing on Section 230.

October 24, 2018

Transnational Crime
Taking Stock of the Global Fight Against Illicit Financial Flows

A growing number of actors have joined the fight against dirty money. The success of global efforts to combat illicit financial flows, however, remains uncertain. 

A cash withdrawal of Ethiopian Birr at a bank in Addis Ababa.