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January 12, 2024

Supply Chains
How Houthi Attacks in the Red Sea Threaten Global Shipping

Houthi attacks against commercial ships in the Red Sea have upended global shipping. The disruptions could soon ripple through the global economy.

January 3, 2024

Democracy
Taiwan’s Early Warning for the Future of Tech

Taiwan faces online threats in the run up to its January 13 election. Companies, governments, and civil society need to work together to defend against the growing influence of digital authoritariani…

Supporters of the opposition party Kuomintang (KMT) celebrate the preliminary results of the local elections during a rally in Taipei, Taiwan.

January 2, 2024

Peru
The Organized Crime Threat to Latin American Democracies

Governments have learned to manage many threats, but they are failing to curb the growing power of organized crime.

Photo of Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori attending a trial as a witness in 2018

May 16, 2023

United States
Why Today Is Not Like the 1850s

American politics turned hyper toxic several years ago, and ever since commentators have raised the specter of a second civil war. No other historical parallel, it seems, captures so viscerally today…

Supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump stand near Confederate and U.S. flags in Wellington, Ohio on June 26, 2021.

October 4, 2022

Energy and Environment
The United States Needs to Prepare for More Billion-Dollar Climate Disasters Like Hurricane Ian

Billion-dollar disasters such as Hurricane Ian are on the rise in the United States. Officials should take swift action to reduce the damage and protect Americans.

June 14, 2023

Ecuador
A Surge in Crime and Violence Has Ecuador Reeling

Ecuadorians say crime and public authorities’ inability, or unwillingness, to stop it is what they are most worried about. 

DOCUMENT DATE:  May 17, 2023  Security forces keep guard outside the National Assembly after Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso dissolved the Assembly in a decree, bringing forward legislative and presidential elections, a day after he presented his defence in an impeachment process against him, in Quito, Ecuador May 17, 2023.