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

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

John Kerry discusses his work as U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, the challenges the United States faces, and the Biden administration’s priorities as it continues to address climate chan…

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

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September 13, 2023

Inequality

Who Runs the World?... Not Women

Female representation in politics leads to numerous benefits, but the vast majority of the world’s most powerful politicians are men. Using the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women’s Power Index tool …

Female legislator raises hand to participate while holding child.

Podcast by Gabrielle Sierra, Linda Robinson, and Sandra Pepera Why It Matters

April 28, 2020

U.S. Foreign Policy

U.S. Global Leadership Amid the Coronavirus Pandemic, With Philip H. Gordon

Philip H. Gordon, CFR’s Mary and David Boies senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether the United States should do more internationally to stem the spre…

In response to the ongoing global coronavirus pandemic, U.S. President Donald Trump announces that he is declaring a national emergency during news conference with National Institute Of Allergy And Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci, Vice President Mike Pence and other members of his coronavirus task force and leaders from the healthcare industry in the Rose Garden at the White House March 13, 2020 in Washington, DC.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Philip H. Gordon The President’s Inbox

November 1, 2018

Elections and Voting

The U.S. Holds High-Stakes Midterm Elections, and Iran Faces New Sanctions

The United States goes to the polls in a tense midterm election, and Iran faces the consequences of new oil sanctions. Carla Anne Robbins sits in for Jim Lindsay.

A woman arrives at a polling station as the early voting for midterm elections started in Texas, October 22, 2018.

Podcast by Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins The World Next Week

August 5, 2021

U.S. Foreign Policy

TWNW Presents: Summer Reading Special Episode (Rebroadcast)

In this special episode of The World Next Week, CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow Carla Anne Robbins joins James M. Lindsay and Robert McMahon to discuss the books they recommend reading, the books they’re l…