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September 20, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Donald Trump Has Vowed to Raise Tariffs. Can He?

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. Congress is empowered to set tariff policy, but it has delegated much of its authority to the president.

Shipping containers at Port Newark, New Jersey

September 20, 2024

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Women’s Deaths Cited as ‘Preventable’ in Georgia

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 September 14 to September 20.

Abortion rights advocates gather to launch their 'Yes On 4' campaign with a march and rally against the six-week abortion ban ahead of November 5, when Florida voters will decide on whether there should be a right to abortion in the state, in Orlando, Florida, U.S. April 13, 2024.

September 20, 2024

United States
Misperceptions and Misplaced Perceptions: Time to Turn the Page on International Trade

Trade deserves a better reputation. Increasing supply would improve the economy’s performance and the public’s perception of trade’s benefits.

A tugboat passes shipping containers being unloaded and stacked on a pier at Port Newark, New Jersey, U.S., November 19, 2021.

September 18, 2024

United States
Happy 77th Birthday to the United States Air Force

The United States Air Force marks seventy-seven years of service today. 

USAF B-52 Stratofortress in flight

September 17, 2024

Russia
The Russia Challenge, With Liana Fix and Thomas Graham (Election 2024, Episode 1)

Liana Fix, a fellow for Europe at CFR, and Thomas Graham, a distinguished fellow at CFR, sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the future of U.S. policy toward Russia and the risks posed by heigh…

Podcast Russian and U.S. flags at the United States Mission in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 10, 2022. Denis Balibouse/Reuters

September 16, 2024

United States
CFR Fellows' Book Launch Series: Reagan—His Life and Legend by Max Boot

From best-selling biographer Max Boot comes this revelatory portrait, a decade in the making, of the actor-turned-politician whose telegenic leadership ushered in a transformative conservative era in…

Play President Ronald Reagan at Republican convention Rally in 1982.

September 13, 2024

Sexual Violence
Women This Week: UN Projects Climate Crisis will Increase Intimate Partner Violence Rates

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 September 7 to September 13.

Two women wait for a canoe as flood overflows streets in Wadata in Makurdi, Nigeria, October 1, 2022.

September 13, 2024

United States
Election 2024: Did the Harris-Trump Debate Reset the Presidential Race?

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: History suggests that any bump Kamala Harris gets from the debate will be fleeting.

Trump-Harris Presidential Debate ABC

September 10, 2024

United States
Ronald Reagan on U.S. Global Leadership, with Max Boot

Max Boot, the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick senior fellow for national security studies at CFR and a columnist for The Washington Post, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss Ronald Reagan’s life and his …

Podcast President Ronald Reagan at his desk in the Oval Office in Washington, DC. HUM Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images

September 6, 2024

United States
Election 2024: The United States Has a Debt Problem

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Whoever wins in November could find their policy plans stymied by a mounting national debt.

Debt Screen