The Trump visit to the Gulf showed no understanding of the invaluable asset that support for human rights represents for the United States.

In the second quarter of 2024, China reported a customs surplus of $250 Billion, a services deficit of $60 billion—and a current account surplus of only $50 billion. The gap between the current ...

The Philippines’s parliamentary elections reflect yet another vote between dynastic political families, but the outcome still ...

The negotiations are fraught with a history of enmity and a lack of trust, even as both Washington and Tehran seek a narrow ...

Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria and meet with its new president is a major shift in U.S.-Syria relations, but it ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. El Salvador’s recent $1.4 billion bailout by the International Monetary Fund ...

Two things emerged clearly from this week’s Copenhagen Democracy Summit, the eighth annual gathering convened by Anders Fogh ...

Recent decades have witnessed massive growth in ongoing declarations under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. IEEPA has allowed the president to arrogate dangerously excessive powers ...

The United States and China narrowly avoided a trade war by agreeing to a ninety-day pause on steep tariffs. The truce is not ...

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The Palestinian Authority Continues to Teach Hate and to Reward Terror The Palestinian Authority has violated new promises to stop teaching hate in its school ...