This post is co-written with Sagatom Saha, research associate for energy and foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations. In his final State of the Union address, President Obama celebrated t…

With renewed support from Russia and China, there are fears that a North Korean crisis is coming. In light of this, the trilateral security relationship among the United States, Japan, and South Kore…

New data from CFR’s Women’s Power Index tracks countries on their progress toward gender parity in political representation.  

For the second time this year, Paul Krugman has written a column explaining that serious studies consistently conclude that slashing global carbon dioxide emissions doesn’t need to be expensive. Also…

A surge in Chinese manufacturing exports is threatening jobs in many countries, not just the United States.

The collapse of SVB is a reminder that the fastest way for the United States to cede ground in the present era of great power competition is to debase its financial system and relinquish its global f…