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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 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.

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.

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.

December 3, 2024

Energy and Climate Policy
The Dirty Energy Powering AI

What powers artificial intelligence (AI)? As global electricity use is surging, with unprecedented demand coming from an increase in data centers, AI’s dependence on fossil fuels presents a serious i…

Podcast Multi colored server room of data center with multiple racks of computing equipment.

January 24, 2025

Foreign Policy
What I Saw in Davos: Middle Powers Rise and Trump’s Shadow Looms

A dispatch from the fifty-forth annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where the focus this year is on the presence of emerging economies—from Brazil to Indonesia—while the political and …

U.S. President Donald Trump makes a special address at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 2025. Yves Herman/Reuters

March 5, 2025

United States
Transition 2025 Series: The Future of U.S. Climate and Energy Policy

Panelists discuss the future of climate and energy policy under the new Trump administration, examining lessons from President Trump’s previous term, anticipated shifts from the policies of the Biden…

Play Larry Renninger, 58, watches as a truck is loaded with anthracite coal at Superior Coal Preparation Plant in Hegins, Pennsylvania, U.S.

December 9, 2024

United States
A Conversation With USAID Administrator Samantha Power: Building Economic Resilience and Advancing Economic Statecraft

In response to new fractures and flashpoints in the global economy and heightened strategic competition, the United States and countries around the world are recalibrating their approaches to economi…

Play U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power speaks atop the Council on Foreign Relation stage.