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October 13, 2023

Inequality
Women This Week: Nobel Prize Winner Highlights Gender Pay Gap

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers October 7 to October 13.

Women carry shopping bags while walking in the working-class neighbourhood Villa Fiorito, in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 9, 2023.

January 5, 2024

United States
Campaign Roundup: The Third Anniversary of the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol

Each Friday, I look at what the presidential contenders are saying about foreign policy. This Week: Americans are divided over the meaning of January 6. 

Capitol Noose

June 1, 2023

Cybersecurity
The Great Firewall of Montana: How Could Montana Implement A TikTok Ban?

Montana banned TikTok a month ago. Enforcing this ban would require the creation of a surveillance regime that would be far more detrimental to privacy and civil liberties than TikTok could ever be.

TikTok logo is seen through broken glass.

September 21, 2022

Cybersecurity
Cyber Conflict and the Erosion of Trust

Cyberattacks have been characterized as major tools in modern warfighting, but have often failed to have major physical effects. Instead, cyberattacks have played major roles in degrading trust in so…

Three EMTs in masks and face coverings load a patient into the back of an ambulance.

May 16, 2017

Americas
The Politics of Latin America’s Middle Income Trap

Many of Latin America’s largest economies are stuck in the so-called “middle-income trap,” with slowing productivity growth making it unlikely that they will catch up to the top global economies in t…

Empty Classroom in Buenos Aires

April 18, 2023

United States
The Cost of Trump’s Trade War with China Is Still Adding Up

In continuing it, Biden risks further harm to the U.S. economy.

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks virtually with Chinese leader Xi from the White House in Washington