Having been frozen for four decades, a long-deferred debate over the "war on drugs" is finally heating up. Ever since the Nixon administration, the dominant paradigm informing U.S. and global policy …

In anticipation of Mexico’s election this weekend, I spoke with Brianna Lee, a production editor at CFR.org, about the candidates, the most likely outcome, and the issues that the winner will have to…

I wrote the following for a CFR "expert brief" which originally appeared here. Brazen assassinations, kidnappings, and political intimidation by drug lords conjure up images of Colombia in the earl…

Numerous countries will hold elections in 2018. Here are ten to watch. 

It was half a century ago that UK Prime Minister Harold McMillan famously noted the “winds of change” buffeting the British Empire. Old verities were crumbling and Great Britain would need to adapt t…