Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Lael Brainard of the Federal Reserve discusses the challenges facing U.S. economic recovery. The C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics brings the world's foremost economic policymakers and scholars to address members on current topics in international economics and U.S. monetary policy. This meeting series is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies.

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

Economics

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With Lael Brainard

Virtual Event with Lael Brainard and Roger W. Ferguson Jr. March 2, 2021 C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics

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February 8, 2018

Economics

Andrew Zimbalist on Costs of the Olympics

Andrew Zimbalist, the Robert A. Woods professor of economics at Smith College, joins CFR's James M. Lindsay to discuss the political and economic costs of hosting the Olympics.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Andrew Zimbalist The President’s Inbox

September 17, 2024

Religion

Religion and Foreign Policy Webinar: Muslim-American Perspectives on U.S. Foreign Policy

Salam al-Marayati, president and cofounder of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, and Nazita Lajevardi, associate professor of political science at Michigan State University, discuss the domestic and …

People with flags of various countries in the Middle East gather for a rally held by American Muslims for Palestine calling for a ceasefire in Gaza near the National Museum of African American History and Washington Monument in Washington, U.S.

Virtual Event by Salam Al-Marayati, Nazita Lajevardi, and Irina A. Faskianos Religion and Foreign Policy Series

February 12, 2019

Election 2020

Meet Andrew Yang, Democratic Presidential Candidate

Update: Andrew Yang announced on February 11, 2020, that he was ending his campaign. Chances are you haven’t heard of Andrew Yang even though he’s been running for president for more than a year n…

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay The Water's Edge

July 28, 2020

South Africa

Andrew Mlangeni, Mandela Ally and Anti-Apartheid Hero, Dies in South Africa

Andrew Mlangeni was the last living defendant of the 1963 Rivonia trial, which resulted in the sentencing of Andrew and ten others, among them, Ahmed Kathrada, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and, most famously, Nelson Mandela.

Andrew Mlageni, an aged, bald man with glasses, sits at a dais. His name is on a lit-up placard in front of him, as is a thin microphone. He is speaking.

Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

July 22, 2024

United States

As Biden Drops Out, Does the ‘Stolen’ Vice Presidency of 1944 Have a Lesson for 2024?

“We should look back on 1944 with a great sense of awe and responsibility” for what could have gone very differently with American history and the Cold War, says Senior Fellow Benn Steil.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a podium.

Article by Benn Steil RealEcon

May 4, 2021

Grand Strategy

Rethinking American Grand Strategy, With Beverly Gage, Christopher Nichols, and Andrew Preston

Beverly Gage, Christopher Nichols, and Andrew Preston sit down with James M. Lindsay to discuss what grand strategy means and its role in U.S. history. Beverly Gage is professor of twentieth century …

Military officers from NATO and other countries parade during the opening ceremony of the NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) summit, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, July 11, 2018.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Beverly Gage, Christopher Nichols, and Andrew Preston The President’s Inbox