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April 1, 2024

RealEcon
Leadership Starts With Listening

Building a durable consensus for U.S. economic leadership requires listening to what Americans think. The first stop in the RealEcon team's listening tour was Florida.

Matthew Goodman meets with students from

January 3, 2025

RealEcon
Blocking the Nippon Steel Acquisition: Politics Versus Policy

President Biden's decision to block Nippon Steel’s purchase of U.S. Steel will likely undermine rather than advance U.S. interests.

US Steel Corporation workers rally outside the company's headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, supporting the takeover by Japan's Nippon Steel, on September 4, 2024. United States Steel warned Wednesday it could shut its Pittsburgh headquarters and shutter long-running factories in Pennsylvania if the politically sensitive takeover by Nippon is blocked.

January 8, 2025

United States
Distinguished Voices Series With H.R. McMaster

Lt. General (ret.) H.R. McMaster discusses his new book, At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House, and the geopolitical dynamics that the second Trump Administration will confr…

Play H.R. McMaster and President-Elect Donald J. Trump shake hands at the Mar-a-lago estate in Florida.

April 15, 2024

Japan
Prime Minister Kishida’s Tour de Force

The highlights from Kishida Fumio's busy week in Washington.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden welcome Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the North Portico for an official State Dinner at the White House in Washington, U.S., April 10, 2024. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

December 30, 2024

RealEcon
The End of the Trail: RealEcon Makes Its Final Stop of 2024 in Oregon

Oregon is a resource-rich, trade-dependent state where many benefit from international engagement, but economic challenges persist.

Logs the veneer manufacturer the RealEcon team visited.

January 21, 2025

United States
The World Next Week: Final Episode Live Podcast Taping

Please join us for a live taping of The World Next Week podcast. Hosted by Robert McMahon, Carla Anne Robbins, and their guest co-host, Deborah Amos, this special taping and livestream will serve as …

Play Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins pictured beside The World Next Week podcast logo.

February 22, 2024

Ukraine
Grim Ukraine War Anniversary, WTO in Limbo, Blinken’s Lula and Milei Tour, and More

Ukraine marks the second anniversary of Russia’s large-scale invasion; the World Trade Organization (WTO) holds its thirteenth ministerial conference in Abu Dhabi amid deep uncertainty about progress…

Podcast A Ukrainian serviceman of the 65th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces looks on from a trench in the Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine on February 21, 2024

August 15, 2024

RealEcon
Reimagining American Cities: RealEcon Visits Western Pennsylvania and New York

On the latest leg of its listening tour, RealEcon walks through the transformation of industrial cities in the Northeast.

Matthew P. Goodman at a steel plant during the Listening Tour.

November 20, 2020

Mali
Mali's Amadou Touré and the Conundrum of African Leadership

Amadou Touré, coup maker, coup victim, military ruler, and eventually civilian chief of state in Mali, died last week in Istanbul at the age of seventy-two.

A picture of now-deceased Malian President Amadou Toure speaking at an event in the presidential palace in Mali.