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September 28, 2024

Lebanon
The Nasrallah Killing Is a Crushing Blow to Hezbollah

Hezbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah possessed a rare set of abilities that made the group a formidable foe to Israel and a power broker in Lebanon. His killing by Israel sharply weakens the threa…

A crowd of mourners in Iran hold images of Hezbollah leader Sayed Hassan Nasrallah during a protest.

October 21, 2024

Election 2024
CFR-GVSU Election 2024 U.S. Foreign Policy Public Forum

We will livestream this conversation here. You can register to attend in person at the GVSU Hauenstein Center website. Join us for an in-depth, nonpartisan conversation on America’s role in the wo…

Play  Grand Valley State University Campus in Grand Rapids Michigan.

April 20, 2020

Public Health Threats and Pandemics
Earth Day’s New Urgency in the Era of COVID-19

COVID-19 underscores the extent to which human health depends on environmental health. 

A woman and man walk through tall grass at a park with the Wuhan, China, cityscape behind them.

September 18, 2024

Global
What Are the UN Sustainable Development Goals?

The United Nations’ ambitious development agenda aims to protect people and the planet via seventeen goals. But experts say governments aren’t doing enough to implement them.

Students attend a lesson at a school in the Tillabéri region of Niger.

December 7, 2020

COVID-19
The Year the Earth Stood Still

The COVID-19 pandemic brought travel around the world to an abrupt halt in 2020. Nations are still trying to grasp the consequences, and restarting movement could take years.

April 15, 2021

Climate Change
Biden’s Earth Day Summit: What to Expect

President Biden hopes to show that the United States is ready to be a leader again in combating climate change.

September 19, 2024

United Nations
Security Challenges Cloud UN’s Summit of the Future

This year’s UN summit offers a rare chance for reform of the world’s leading peace and security body but is bedeviled by major power tensions over intractable wars.

People sit in rows of chairs around a C-shaped desk in a large conference room hall.