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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July 22, 2024

Economics

American Pharmaceutical Companies Aren’t Paying Any Tax in the United States

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has substantially reduced the domestic tax paid by American pharmaceutical giants.

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser and Michael Weilandt Follow the Money

June 7, 2024

Election 2024

Election 2024: Joe Biden Makes the Case for Allies and Alliances

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: President Joe Biden spoke with Time magazine about the importance of alliances to U.S. security.

U.S. President Joe Biden visits the Pointe du Hoc Ranger Monument

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

May 2, 2024

China

The President’s Inbox Recap: A Second China Shock

A surge in Chinese manufacturing exports is threatening jobs in many countries, not just the United States.

Three electric vehicles as viewed on a lift in a port.

Blog Post by Michelle Kurilla The Water's Edge

April 5, 2024

Technology and Innovation

Cyber Week in Review: April 5, 2024

DeSantis signs teen social restrictions into law; CRSB releases report on Microsoft hack; report claims Meta and Google promote health disinformation; OpenAI discloses voice engine model; Google will…

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signs five state house bills into law after giving a press conference at Cambridge Christian School in Tampa, Florida on May 17, 2023.

Blog Post by Kat Duffy, Kyle Fendorf, and Cecilia Marrinan Net Politics

June 20, 2023

Taiwan

Why Is Taiwan Important to the United States?

Taiwan’s fate will have major implications for U.S. security and prosperity. It will also bear on fundamental questions of international order and the future of democracy.