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December 3, 2010

HBO History Makers: Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice, the former secretary of state and author of the new book, Condoleezza Rice:  A Memoir of My Extraordinary, Ordinary Family and Me, stopped by CFR’s New York headquarters today to …

HBO History Makers: Condoleezza Rice

April 2, 2014

United States
Is the White House Pulling the Plug on Kerry’s Peace Mission?

Secretary of State John Kerry abruptly cancelled his Middle East shuttle diplomacy yesterday less than a month before his self-imposed deadline for concluding an Israeli-Palestinian peace treaty. The…

U.S. secretary of state John Kerry listens to U.S. president Barack Obama (Downing/Courtesy Reuters).

December 11, 2019

Trade
The USMCA Breakthrough: The New U.S. Trade Consensus and What it Means for the World

In the history of the domestic politics of trade, the breakthrough announced this week on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) is a genuine milestone. Following intensive negotiations—in…

Pelosi USMCA Trade News Conference

May 30, 2016

United States
TWE Remembers: Memorial Day

The United States has fought twelve major wars and a countless number of smaller skirmishes in its history. Memorial Day is our way of honoring the soldiers, sailors, airmen, airwomen, and marines wh…

Memorial-Day-JPG

June 27, 2013

China
The New Geo-Graphics iPad Mini Index Should Calm Talk of Currency Wars

The “law of one price” holds that identical goods should trade for the same price in an efficient market.  To what extent does it hold internationally? The Economist magazine’s famous Big Mac Ind…

The New Geo-Graphics iPad Mini Index Should Calm Talk of Currency Wars