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

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

A clear-headed vision for the United States' role in the Middle East that highlights the changing nature of U.S. national interests and the challenges of grand strategizing at a time of profound change in the international order.

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Middle East and North Africa

The End of Ambition

Book by Steven A. Cook June 3, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

John Kerry discusses his work as U.S. special presidential envoy for climate, the challenges the United States faces, and the Biden administration’s priorities as it continues to address climate chan…

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

Climate Change

A Conversation With John Kerry

Virtual Event with John F. Kerry and Michael Froman March 1, 2024

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May 16, 2024

Ukraine

Ukraine Tries To Halt Russian Advance, Biden Woos Kenya, the Fate of Assange, and More

Ukraine rushes to push back against a new Russian offensive in its northeast Kharkiv region; U.S. President Joe Biden invites Kenyan President William Ruto for a state visit, the first U.S. state vis…

Firefighters finish extinguishing the fire at the site of a Russian missile strike on the city's private residential buildings area on May 10, 2024, in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Podcast by Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins The World Next Week

June 4, 2019

United States

American Diplomacy, With William J. Burns

Ambassador William J. Burns, president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss American diplomacy, international cooperation, and Burns’s most re…

U.S. President Donald J. Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Helsinki.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and William J. Burns The President’s Inbox

August 26, 2019

United States

TPI Replay: American Diplomacy, With William J. Burns

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and William J. Burns The President’s Inbox

September 24, 2019

Technology and Innovation

Innovation and National Security, With Admiral William H. McRaven

Admiral William H. McRaven, professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, discusses the CFR-sponsored Independent Task Force report, Innovation and National Security: Keeping Our Edge,…

An employee works at a production plant of Brazil's Ceitec company in Porto Alegre.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay and William H. McRaven The President’s Inbox

January 14, 2020

Election 2020

Should the United States Spend Less on Defense?

In this episode of our special Election 2020 series of The President’s Inbox, Mackenzie Eaglen and William D. Hartung join host James M. Lindsay to discuss defense spending.

Podcast by James M. Lindsay, Mackenzie Eaglen, and William D. Hartung U.S. Foreign Policy Program