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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.

January 27, 2025

Lebanon
Lebanon: How Israel, Hezbollah, and Regional Powers Are Shaping Its Future

An array of domestic and foreign powers are vying for influence in Lebanon, including the Lebanese Armed Forces, Hezbollah, Israel, Iran, Syria, and the United States.

A boy stands inside his damaged house in Tyre, Lebanon, in November 2024.

February 26, 2025

Southeast Asia
U.S. Soft Power Is Spiraling in Asia, With China Filling the Void

The Trump administration’s dismantling of the U.S. foreign aid apparatus has created a vacuum that China is rapidly filling, increasing its influence and soft power in regions like Southeast Asia.

Officials stand on an airport tarmac next to a trailer applauding.

February 4, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
DeepSeek Upends AI Competition, With Adam Segal

Adam Segal, the Ira A. Lipman chair in emerging technologies and national security at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss how the Chinese company DeepSeek's new artificial intelligence (A…

Podcast The DeepSeek app icon appears close up on a smartphone homescreen.

February 10, 2025

India
The Great Disconnect in India’s Digital Trade Policy

India's digital trade policies run contrary to global norms and seem to undermine the interests of its fast-growing and economically important information and technology sector. At the same time, it …

A worker at Flipkart, a leading e-commerce firm in India, arranges items inside its fulfilment centre on the outskirts of Bengaluru, India, September 23, 2021. REUTERS/Samuel Rajkumar

February 14, 2025

RealEcon
Trump’s Tariffs Are an Unconstitutional Power Grab

Declaring a national emergency to exact concessions is a ploy to seize authority.

A United States border post into Canada is seen before it opens in the morning near Havre, Montana, United States, November 20, 2015.

February 11, 2025

Energy and Environment
America May Not Need a Massive Energy Build-Out to Power the AI Revolution

A new Duke University study argues that the existing U.S. electricity system already has the capacity to power massive additions of data centers that will be needed for the further development of art…

Power lines are seen in front of cooling towers at the nuclear-powered Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Waynesboro, Georgia, U.S.

January 23, 2025

Singapore
Singapore’s Ruling PAP Faces Its Most Competitive Election Ever

Despite the People’s Action Party’s historical dominance in Singaporean elections, recent trends and internal challenges suggest the opposition may achieve unprecedented gains in the upcoming nationa…

Politician Lee Hsien Yang wears a red and white polo shirt while bumping fists with a man; they both wear face masks.

October 22, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Can U.S. Tech Giants Deliver on the Promise of Nuclear Power?

Nuclear power has been a stagnant U.S. energy source for decades, but it could be primed for a technology-driven renaissance amid the growing artificial intelligence boom.

Three Mile Island nuclear plant.