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June 26, 2023

United States
Adapting to Wildfires in a Warming World

Recent wildfires in Canada and California offer a preview of a world made far more dangerous by climate change, one in which smoke and fire exact an ever-increasing toll on public health and the econ…

Haze and smoke from the recent Canadian wildfires shroud the skies over the Capitol in Washington, D.C.

December 29, 2022

2022 in Review
Five Good Foreign Policy News Stories in 2022

As 2022 comes to a close, here are five positive stories on the foreign policy front that happened in the past year. 

Tourists as seen waiting in line for the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

May 6, 2020

Cybersecurity
New Entries in the CFR Cyber Operations Tracker: Q1 2020

An update of the Council on Foreign Relations' Cyber Operations Tracker for the period between January and March 2020.

Cyber Operations Tracker

August 22, 2022

Infectious Diseases
Why Hasn’t the World Eradicated Polio?

The world is inching closer to eradicating polio, but armed conflicts and opposition to vaccines stand in the way of finally eliminating the disease.

A health worker marks the finger of a child with indelible ink during an anti-polio campaign at an Afghan refugee settlement on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan.

October 21, 2020

Sudan
Removing Sudan from the State Sponsors of Terrorism List

This week, President Trump made the long-anticipated announcement that the United States is prepared to remove Sudan from the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism (SST). Sudan has been on the list of …

Sudanese chant slogans outside a court during a new trial against ousted President Omar al-Bashir and some of his former allies over the military coup that brought the autocrat to power in 1989, outside a courthouse in Khartoum, Sudan. September 15, 2020