Council on Foreign Relations

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…

by Lindsay Maizland and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 Renewing America

Climate Change

Global Climate Agreements: Successes and Failures

Introduction Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…

by Lindsay Maizland and Clara Fong January 21, 2025 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…

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

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

China Strategy Initiative

Securing America: Key Authorities Under the Defense Production Act

Four points framed Dr. Doshi’s remarks to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. First, China is an ambitious and formidable competitor unlike any the United States h…

Testimony by Rush Doshi May 22, 2025 China Strategy Initiative

China Strategy Initiative

Securing America: Key Authorities Under the Defense Production Act

Four points framed Dr. Doshi’s remarks to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. First, China is an ambitious and formidable competitor unlike any the United States h…

Testimony by Rush Doshi May 22, 2025 China Strategy Initiative

China

Daughters and Sons Guest Event: Panda Diplomacy—China's Soft Power in Black and White

TRANSCRIPT SMITH: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. We’re going to get started. Thank you for being quiet so quickly. You guys are, like, the best behaved audience ever. I feel like if we nee…

Virtual Event with Bryan Amaral, Rush Doshi, Melissa Songer, Jennifer Griffin and Brandie Smith May 27, 2025 Asia Program

China

Daughters and Sons Guest Event: Panda Diplomacy—China's Soft Power in Black and White

TRANSCRIPT SMITH: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. We’re going to get started. Thank you for being quiet so quickly. You guys are, like, the best behaved audience ever. I feel like if we nee…

Virtual Event with Bryan Amaral, Rush Doshi, Melissa Songer, Jennifer Griffin and Brandie Smith May 27, 2025 Asia Program

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May 28, 2025

Daily News Brief

Chaotic Start to New Gaza Aid System

Welcome to the Daily News Brief, CFR’s flagship morning newsletter summarizing the top global news and analysis of the day. Subscribe to the Daily News Brief to receive it every weekday morning. …

People ride a cart as Palestinians seeking aid gather near an aid distribution site run by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, May 27, 2025.

Article by CFR.org Editors

May 16, 2025

Refugees and Displaced Persons

How Does the U.S. Refugee System Work?

The United States has long been considered a safe haven for refugees from around the world, but this could change following the Trump administration’s decision to suspend the country’s decades-old re…

Meena Mosazai and her family live in Seattle after having moved from Afghanistan.

Backgrounder by Diana Roy, Claire Klobucista, and James McBride

May 30, 2025

Daily News Brief

Russia’s Advances in Ukraine

Emergency workers extinguish fires in the debris of a private house that was destroyed in a Russian rocket strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Markhalivka, Kyiv region, Ukraine, May 25, 2025.

Article by CFR.org Editors

April 23, 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa

U.S. Visa Revocation

When Secretary of State John Kerry visited Nigeria in January in advance of Nigeria’s March 28 elections, he observed that anyone who incited violence or interfered with the electoral process would b…

Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition

May 22, 2025

India

The President’s Inbox Recap: The India-Pakistan Crisis

The military clash between nuclear powers India and Pakistan after a terrorist attack in Indian-controlled Kashmir has given way to a tenuous ceasefire.

Post by Oscar Berry The Water's Edge

May 14, 2025

United States

What Is Birthright Citizenship and Could the Supreme Court End It?

The Trump administration’s efforts to nullify birthright citizenship for millions of U.S.-born children could overturn a nearly 160-year legal precedent.

Protestors rally outside the Supreme Court on May 15, the day it is scheduled to hear oral arguments over President Donald Trump’s efforts to restrict birthright citizenship.

Article by Diana Roy

January 30, 2019

Nigeria

The U.S. and UK to Deny Visas to Nigerians Undermining Elections

The United States and the United Kingdom have issued a joint statement stating that they will deny visas to Nigerians involved in rigging or violence in the national elections scheduled for February 16. In addition to monitoring polling stations and outbreaks of violence, they will also be monitoring social media for incidents of hate speech and incitement of violence.