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September 24, 2024

United States
2024 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics: Keynote With Janet Yellen

The first session of the Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics will feature remarks and a discussion with U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen. Secretary Yellen will discuss diffe…

Play U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen speaks at a University event in Massachusetts, U.S.

September 19, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The United Nations General Assembly Votes to Remove Jews from Jerusalem's Old City

The most recent UN General Assembly resolution on Israel and the Palestinians is a radical strike at Israel and would push Jews out of the Old City of Jerusalem.

August 15, 2024

United States
Reimagining American Cities: RealEcon Visits Western Pennsylvania and New York

On the latest leg of its listening tour, RealEcon walks through the transformation of industrial cities in the Northeast.

Matthew P. Goodman at a steel plant during the Listening Tour.

August 20, 2024

Grand Strategy
A New U.S. Grand Strategy: The Case for Multipolar Pluralism, With Stephen Heintz

Stephen Heintz, president and CEO of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the United States should adapt to an era of renewed great power competition and dome…

Podcast Joe Biden addresses the 78th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters in New York City on September 19, 2023. Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP

September 20, 2024

Climate Change
What Is Climate Week?

The annual convening of Climate Week in New York has become one of the largest globally for climate reform, but can the events shore up meaningful commitments amid the worsening effects of global war…

Youth protest in New York City as part of climate week.

July 16, 2024

Nuclear Weapons
The Threat of Nuclear Terrorism, With Stephen Flynn

Stephen Flynn, chair of the Committee on Assessing WMD Nuclear Terrorism at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and a political science professor at Northeastern University,…

Podcast A Marine Corps officer participates in a simulated chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear exercise at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, on July 23, 2023. Mitchell Johnson/U.S. Department of Defense

September 10, 2024

United States
Understanding Ronald Reagan Is Key to Understanding America, Writes Max Boot in New Book

“It is no exaggeration to say that you cannot fully comprehend what happened to America in the twentieth century without first understanding what happened to Ronald Reagan,” argues Max Boot, the Jean…

March 20, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Young Professionals Briefing: Artificial Intelligence and the Economy—How Cities are Embracing New Technologies

Panelists reflect on how the digital transformation is reshaping the economy and how cities like New York can embrace new technologies, like artificial intelligence, to foster economic growth. Ple…

Play A woman wearing a face mask looks at a robot.

October 5, 2023

United States
Why New York Is Experiencing a Migrant Crisis

The arrival of more than one hundred thousand migrants and asylum seekers in New York City and other major U.S. cities over the past year has sparked renewed debate over U.S. immigration policy.

Migrants sleep outside the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

September 6, 2024

United States
CFR Announces That James M. Lindsay Will Be Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy and Shannon K. O’Neil Will Be New Director of the David Rockefeller Studies Program

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) announces two changes in its David Rockefeller Studies Program, as of Monday, September 16. James M. Lindsay, who has long served as senior vice president, d…