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December 3, 2025

How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy
How I Got My Career in Foreign Policy: Erin D. Dumbacher

Erin D. Dumbacher got her start in the media industry before pivoting to a career focused on U.S. nuclear policy. She sat down with CFR to chat about making career switches and the connection between…

August 29, 2025

United States
The Rise of Geopolitical Prediction Markets

Once illegal in the United States, prediction markets are resurging, allowing the public to bet on geopolitical outcomes. But liquidity constraints limit their reliability, and prediction markets sho…

October 30, 2025

Public Health Threats and Pandemics
Fentanyl and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic

Opioid addiction has become one of the United States’ biggest killers, endangering public health, the economy, and national security. But closing the floodgates on fentanyl poses a significant foreig…

Photos of fentanyl victims are on display at The Faces of Fentanyl Memorial at the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration headquarters.

November 24, 2025

China Strategy Initiative
China in Latin America: September 2025

In September, tensions escalated between Mexico and China over proposed tariff hikes. China denounced U.S. strikes in the Caribbean as a threat to regional security. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel…

November 22, 2013

Japan
Ambassador Caroline Kennedy

There are times when pictures speak louder than words. An aura of the past surrounded the procession that bore U.S. ambassador Caroline Kennedy to the Imperial Palace to present her credentials to hi…

Newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy is escorted by protocol chief Nobutake Odano upon arrival at Imperial Palace in Tokyo

March 28, 2024

United States
Summer Migration Uptick Likely to Inflame U.S. Politics, Plus Brazil’s Risky Bet on Soy

Migration will rise this summer, inflaming U.S. politics; Brazil’s risky bet on soy.

Migrants line up against the border wall in El Paso to surrender to immigration officials on March 25, 2024.

January 4, 2023

Zambia
Zambia’s Bet on Democracy

High stakes and encouraging progress in Zambia should prompt international support.

President of Zambia Hakainde Hichilema passes a blue banner for the US-Africa Business Forum in Washington, DC.