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July 30, 2013

Infrastructure
Policy Initiative Spotlight: NYC Zoning and Competitiveness

The debate over skyscrapers and their place in the American city has endured for over a century, and New York City has often led the conversation. In 1913, the Equitable Life Assurance Society unveil…

Manhattan Skyline
Blog Post by Jonathan Masters Renewing America

July 24, 2013

Sub-Saharan Africa
President Zuma’s Approach to Mugabe and Zimbabwe’s Elections

Zimbabwe’s special elections on July 14-15 for the security forces did not go well. Lindiwe Zulu, former ambassador to Brazil and current international relations adviser to South Africa president Jac…

South African President Jacob Zuma (L) walks with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe at Harare International airport, March 16, 2010.
Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

January 8, 2021

Transition 2021
Transition 2021: A Divisive and Damaging Presidency Nears Its End

Each Friday, I look at what is happening in President-Elect Joe Biden’s transition to the White House. This week: The mob that stormed the Capitol Building this week highlighted how Donald Trump’s pr…

Pro-Trump protestors line the steps of the U.S. Capitol Building waving flags and hanging Trump 2020 banners.
Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

December 3, 2011

Iran
Panetta’s Dangerous Mistake

Secretary of Defense Panetta addressed the Saban Forum, the annual meeting of Israeli and American journalists, officials, and former officials, on Friday evening. What he said is no mystery; why he …

Blog Post by Elliott Abrams Pressure Points

October 5, 2012

Asia
Why Young Democracies Fear YouTube

In the Washington Post  yesterday, Craig Timberg and Paula Moura described the recent jailing of a top Google executive in Brazil, and explored the broader trend of so-called democracies’ attempts to…

A man looks at YouTube at an Internet cafe in Yangon, Myanmar.
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound