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March 22, 2024

United States
How Big a Climate Threat Are Atmospheric Rivers?

Atmospheric rivers are gaining in intensity across California and the western United States. Communities need to adapt to the havoc wrought by this weather phenomenon.

A brown river threatens to overflow alongside a highway.
Article by Alice C. Hill and Tess Turner Energy Security and Climate Change Program

April 10, 2024

Haiti
Haiti in Crisis

Panelists discuss the escalating economic and political situation in Haiti with a focus on the humanitarian crisis, how the destabilization of the region has impacted Haitian people both domestically…

Play A boy in Haiti sits next to the remains of a destroyed school after an earthquake.
Virtual Event by Monique Clesca, Brian A. Nichols, Garry Pierre-Pierre, and Marcia Biggs

February 7, 2024

United States
Seeking Protection: How the U.S. Asylum Process Works

Record numbers of migrants seeking to cross the southern U.S. border are challenging the Joe Biden administration’s attempts to restore asylum protections. Here’s how the asylum process works.

U.S. Border Patrol processes migrants seeking asylum in Yuma, Arizona.
Backgrounder by Diana Roy Renewing America

April 25, 2023

Cuba
Why the Situation in Cuba Is Deteriorating

Cuba’s authoritarian regime has failed to avert an economic crisis, repair decaying state institutions, and prevent the country’s largest outflow of migrants since the 1960s.

In Brief by Will Freeman Latin America Studies Program

September 20, 2023

Immigration and Migration
The Americas Can’t Handle Immigration a la Carte

The Western Hemisphere needs regional solutions to make the most of the migration wave it faces.

After processing by U.S. Immigration, migrants are dropped off by a bus at a transit center to continue their journey in the United States from San Diego, California.
Article by Shannon K. O'Neil Latin America Studies Program

September 7, 2023

G20 (Group of Twenty)
G20 Summit Preview

CFR experts discuss the upcoming Group of Twenty (G20) Summit beginning on September 9 in New Delhi.

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Virtual Event by Heidi Crebo-Rediker, Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Manjari Chatterjee Miller, and Michael Froman Media Briefings

May 26, 2021

Education
Transforming International Affairs Education to Address Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Growing inequality and exclusion around the world are resulting in destabilization, creating security risks, and damaging U.S. interests. Across the United States, polarizing discourse, deepening ine…

Play DOCUMENT DATE: September 12, 2012 Students attend class on their first day back to primary school in the "La Soledad" public school in Palma de Mallorca, on the island of Mallorca, September 13, 2012. This multicultural school houses around 25 different nationalities and parents can choose which language, Spanish or Catalan, their children receive classes in.
Virtual Event by Miguel Centeno, Carla Koppell, and Jamille Bigio

January 17, 2024

Globalization
Academic Webinar: The Globalization Myth

Shannon K. O’Neil, vice president, deputy director of studies, and the Nelson and David Rockefeller senior fellow for Latin America studies at CFR, and author of The Globalization Myth: Why Regions M…

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Virtual Event by Shannon K. O'Neil and Irina A. Faskianos Academic and Higher Education Webinars