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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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May 21, 2018
United States
Meeting the Challenge of Slow-Motion Crises
The United States faces three slow-motion crises—the future of work, climate change, and the federal debt—that we risk not tackling until it is too late.
August 1, 2019
Elections and Voting
Joe Biden
CFR invited the presidential candidates challenging President Trump in the 2020 election to articulate their positions on twelve critical foreign policy issues. Candidates’ answers are posted exactly…
December 20, 2018
Wars and Conflict
The Geopolitical Flash Points of 2019
If 2018 was a year marked by international challenges that percolated but did not boil over into full-blown crises, next year may well be the year in which that good fortune runs out.
July 30, 2019
Elections and Voting
The Presidential Candidates on Africa’s Growing Population
By 2050, Africa will account for 25 percent of the world’s population according to projections by the United Nations. What are the implications of this demographic change for the United States, and how should we adjust our policies to anticipate them?
June 2, 2020
COVID-19
Graphing the Pandemic Economy
In a fast-evolving crisis like a pandemic, GDP and other conventional economic metrics are simply too slow to be useful for policymakers who need to make decisions about when to lock down and reopen …