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December 16, 2021

Aging, Youth Bulges, and Population
Is Population Change a Problem?

Birth rates are booming in some countries and plummeting in others. Leading demographer Nicholas Eberstadt and Richard Haass analyze the most important trends and their consequences.

Podcast Predictive model of population growth
Podcast by Richard Haass Nine Questions for the World

July 20, 2023

Global Health Program
Reporting on Fentanyl and the Opioid Crisis

Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, discusses policies aimed at ending the opioid crisis, challenges to stopping the flow of fentanyl across borders, and how this affects …

Play An exchange of drugs between two people.
Webinar by Vanda Felbab-Brown, Sam Quinones, Carla Anne Robbins, and Irina A. Faskianos Local Journalists Webinars

April 29, 2013

Education
Why American Education Fails

Despite great reform efforts, U.S. students still remain in the middle of the pack in international test scores. Comparing education systems around the world in a new Foreign Affairs article, assista…

Blog Post by Renewing America Staff Renewing America

May 21, 2020

COVID-19
Limiting the COVID-19 Food Crisis in Africa Begins With Local Farmers

The COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges for African agriculture. Farming is the dominant way people in sub-Saharan Africa earn their living and feed their families. Government restrictions on movement could threaten food security if not done properly.

Farmer Leticia Kangwa uses a hand washing station she installed outside her home after learning about how to prevent the spread of COVID-19, in April 2020, in Zambia.
Blog Post by Guest Blogger for John Campbell Africa in Transition

June 8, 2009

Kenya
Prime Minister Says Kenyan Politics ’Are Not Ethnic’

Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga says he is committed to carrying through political reforms despite lagging progress and concerns the country is devolving deeper into ethnic-based politics.

Interview by Raila Odinga and Stephanie Hanson