Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.

Backgrounder by Lindsay Maizland December 5, 2023 Renewing America

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

During the 2020 presidential campaign, Joe Biden promised that his administration would make a “historic effort” to reduce long-running racial inequities in health. Tobacco use—the leading cause of p…

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Health

How Tobacco Laws Could Help Close the Racial Gap on Cancer

Interactive by Olivia Angelino, Thomas J. Bollyky, Elle Ruggiero and Isabella Turilli February 1, 2023 Global Health Program

Religion

If You Will It

Hundreds of thousands of young Jews have drifted away from the American Jewish community and many more may follow. This book explains to Jewish parents, donors, and organizations how Jewish education, Jewish summer camping, and time spent in Israel can revive and strengthen Jewish identity.

Book by Elliott Abrams October 8, 2024 Middle East Program

Religion

If You Will It

Book by Elliott Abrams October 8, 2024 Middle East Program

United States

A Conversation With Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

Dr. Vivek Murthy, the 19th and 21st U.S. Surgeon General, discusses his role as the nation's doctor, including addressing the loneliness epidemic, the importance of social connection, and combatting …

Event with Vivek H. Murthy and Thomas J. Bollyky September 25, 2024

United States

A Conversation With Surgeon General Vivek Murthy

Event with Vivek H. Murthy and Thomas J. Bollyky September 25, 2024

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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…

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

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Stephen Heintz The President’s Inbox

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,…

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

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Stephen E. Flynn The President’s Inbox

October 10, 2024

RealEcon

National Security Regulation and the Decline of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Laws meant to insulate domestic companies from foreign transactions are often implemented with little regard to the ensuing domestic costs. Those costs could undermine the national security goals of…

A general view of the U.S. Treasury building in Washington, U.S. January 19, 2023.

Article by Stephen Heifetz RealEcon

December 6, 2023

Economics

Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics

The 2023 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics will discuss international economic leadership. This symposium is presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies a…

Virtual Event by Caroline Atkinson, Kristalina Georgieva, Adam Posen, Robert B. Zoellick, Michael Froman, and Jerry Seib Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium

March 19, 2024

Grand Strategy

A New U.S. Grand Strategy: The Case for U.S. Retrenchment Overseas, With Stephen Wertheim

Stephen Wertheim, a senior fellow in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss whether and where the United States …

Members of South Korea's Army Special Warfare Command prepare to parachute during their military exercise with U.S. Special Operations Command in Gwangju, South Korea, on March 14, 2024.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Stephen Wertheim The President’s Inbox

January 12, 2022

Economics

Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics

The 2022 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics discusses building an inclusive U.S. economy and reforming capitalism to address inequality. The full agenda is available here. This sym…

Stock market chart on a glowing particle world map with connection network

Virtual Event by Megan E. Greene, Steven Pearlstein, Thomas Philippon, Cecilia Elena Rouse, Afsaneh Mashayekhi Beschloss, and Sebastian Mallaby Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium

August 16, 2022

Russia

Putin’s Strategy in Ukraine, With Stephen Sestanovich

Stephen Sestanovich, George F. Kennan senior fellow for Russian and Eurasian studies at CFR and Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis professor of international diplomacy at Columbia University’s School of…

A view shows a torn flag of Ukraine hung on a wire in front an apartment building destroyed in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, April 14. REUTERS/Alexander Ermochenko

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and Stephen Sestanovich The President’s Inbox

December 1, 2020

Economics

Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics

The 2020 Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium on Global Economics will discuss the implications of the coronavirus pandemic on global economic policy. The full agenda is available here. This symposium i…

Virtual Event by Mark Carney, Keyu Jin, Vincent Reinhart, Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Laurence D. Fink, and Sebastian Mallaby Stephen C. Freidheim Symposium

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