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March 21, 2025

United States Agency for International Development (USAID)
The Value of Saving Women and Girls’ Lives Around the World

Women and girls’ lives are being lost due to the abrupt and sweeping cancellation of U.S. assistance approved by Congress. Programs should be reinstated while a deliberate reform is undertaken.

Young girls with U.S. and Kenya flags wait to greet U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec as he visits a President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) project for girls' empowerment in Nairobi, Kenya, March 10, 2018.

March 7, 2025

Inequality
The Status of Women in the World’s Parliaments

We sat down with Zeina Hilal, IPU’s Manager for Gender and Youth Programmes, on the eve of the 69th UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York to discuss the IPU’s work with the UN and 181 parl…

Member of Parliament for Spen Valley, Kim Leadbeater speaks during Prime Minister's Questions at the House of Commons in London, Britain, July 24, 2024.

January 10, 2025

Foreign Policy
The World Trump Will Inherit

Donald Trump will reenter the White House to face a world racked by historic conflicts and humanitarian crises, but the United States, fueled by its economic strength, remains uniquely poised to infl…

Russian President Vladimir Putin stands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a BRICS Plus meeting in Kazan, Russia, October 2024.

January 29, 2025

United States
World Economic Update

The World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and emerging trends. Discussions cover changes in the global marketplace with special emphasis on current economic events and their i…

Play Banknotes of various currencies are spread across a table.

February 13, 2025

Grand Strategy
The President’s Inbox Recap: A World in Permanent Crisis

An increasingly interconnected world will be more chaotic and disorderly.  

Ukraine shopping center destroyed

February 23, 2025

China
Xi is Making the World Pay for China’s Mistakes

My recent essay in the New York Times argues that China’s rising surplus in manufactures is a real threat to the global economy. 

October 22, 2024

China
China’s Central Bank is Becoming the Developing World’s “Payday Lender”

With the developing world’s growing use of costly and opaque “payday loans” from China’s central bank, the IMF and World Bank need to demand far greater transparency from Beijing. 

China’s Central Bank is Becoming the Developing World’s “Payday Lender”

January 21, 2025

United States
The World Next Week: Final Episode Live Podcast Taping

Please join us for a live taping of The World Next Week podcast. Hosted by Robert McMahon, Carla Anne Robbins, and their guest co-host, Deborah Amos, this special taping and livestream will serve as …

Play The World Next Week podcast hosts speak atop CFR stage in New York, NY

February 11, 2025

Grand Strategy
A New U.S. Grand Strategy: A World in Permanent Crisis, With Robert Kaplan

Robert Kaplan, acclaimed journalist and author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the world’s growing interconnectedness is likely to produce g…

Podcast A field of rubble is surrounded by bombed buildings and a plume of smoke rises in the background in Kyiv, Ukraine in March 2022.

October 2, 2024

Global
Central Bank Currency Swaps Tracker

Introduction Since the financial crisis of 2007, central banks around the world have entered into a multitude of bilateral currency swap agreements with one another. These agreements allow a centr…