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May 20, 2025

RealEcon
How Trade Chaos Could Transform Into the Trump Round of Trade Negotiations

The Trump administration’s upending of trade norms could help usher in a new economic order—but only if done right.

U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer, China's International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce Li Chenggang, and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, prepare to discuss on the day of a bilateral meeting between the U.S. and China, in Geneva, Switzerland, May 10, 2025.
Article by James Wallar RealEcon

May 30, 2025

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Rising Rates of Acute Malnutrition in Gaza 

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers May 24 to May 30.

Palestinian women and children rest with their belongings as they flee their homes after the Israeli military issued orders for evacuation from eastern Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 19, 2025.
Post by Noël James Women Around the World

May 27, 2025

Foreign Aid
Women This Week: Funding Cuts Threaten Lifesaving Work in Crisis Zones

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers May 10 to May 16.

Sudanese women from community kitchens, run by local volunteers, prepare meals for people who are affected by conflict and extreme hunger and are out of reach of international aid efforts, in Omdurman, Sudan, May 13, 2024.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

April 16, 2025

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Preventable Complications Responsible for Most Maternal Deaths

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers April 5 to April 11. 

A child touches her pregnant mother's stomach at the last stages of her pregnancy in Bordeaux April 28, 2010.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

May 9, 2025

Elections and Voting
Women This Week: Labor Candidate Ali France Ousts Incumbent Opposition Leader in Australia

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers May 3 to May 9.

Ali France of the Labor Party celebrates with former Queensland Premier Steven Miles and supporters at Kallangur Bowls club, on the day of the Australian federal election, Kallangur, Australia, May 3, 2025.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

March 14, 2025

RealEcon
Congress: Retake Control of Tariffs and Let Businesses Get Back to the “Vision Thing”

The Trump administration’s recent tariff actions are undermining congressional authority and sowing chaos for U.S. businesses. Lawmakers should reassert their constitutional power to correct course.

A 1787 copy of the United States Constitution that sold for $43.2 million, a new world record for the most valuable historical document ever sold at an auction, at Sotheby's in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S. September 9, 2021. Picture taken September 9, 2021. Ardon Bar-Hama/SOTHEBY'S/Handout via REUTERS
Article by James Wallar RealEcon

May 2, 2025

Peacekeeping
Women This Week: Hegseth Announces End to Women, Peace and Security Program 

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers March 26 to April 2. 

Women cadets at a police academy listen to remarks from Ivanka Trump during the unveiling of a U.S. partnership with Colombia on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) in Bogota, Colombia September 3, 2019.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

April 25, 2025

Demonstrations and Protests
Women This Week: Women Escalate Efforts Against Mining Company in Guinea-Bissau  

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers April 19 to April 25. 

A woman sorts through a pile of cashew nuts as children look on next to a farm owned by former Guinea Bissau army chief General Antonio Indjai outside Mansoa, Guinea-Bissau, May 8, 2015.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World

April 1, 2025

Women and Women's Rights
Women’s Power Index

Find out where women around the world wield political power—and why it matters.

Tracker by Linda Robinson and Noël James Women and Foreign Policy Program

April 7, 2025

Maternal and Child Health
Women This Week: Cuts to Title X Family Planning and Women’s Health Clinics

Welcome to “Women Around the World: This Week,” a series that highlights noteworthy news related to women and U.S. foreign policy. This week’s post covers March 29 to April 4. 

Nuns pray outside of a Planned Parenthood location in Columbus, Ohio, U.S., November 12, 2021 as the state considers restrictive abortion laws.
Post by Noël James and Diya Mehta Women Around the World