Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past five to seven years, democracy and rights have been on a ...

It used to be common knowledge — not just among policymakers and economists but also high school students with a grasp of history — that tariffs are a terrible idea. The phrase “beggar thy ...

For many Americans, the big political question is how much of this country as we have known it will be left when Donald Trump leaves the White House in 2029. In an apparent effort to troll Trump ...

Immigration authorities detained Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national in the US on a student visa, on March 25 in Somerville. Democracy isn’t something we are. It’s ...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been running Turkey for 22 years, and has spent much of that time eroding its democracy. His government controls the courts, the security apparatus and almost all the media.

Major Infant-Mortality Study Was Edited to Preserve Racial ‘Perspective’ A Disappointment in Wisconsin Helped by a Typo, Mississippi Is on the Way to Eliminating Its Income Tax The Courts ...

“THE PRESIDENT had a great conversation with Erdogan a couple of days ago,” Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, told an interviewer on March 21st. “There’s just a lot of good ...

Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators have returned to the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, to show support for the city's jailed mayor. Ekrem Imamoglu, who is seen as the main rival of ...

So, it was capitalism after all. More specifically, crony capitalism. I am talking, of course, about how the leaders of the tech world revealed themselves before and after the 2024 presidential ...

R. David Harden is the former assistant administrator at USAID’s bureau for democracy, conflict and humanitarian assistance. In this role, he oversaw global democracy and governance efforts in ...

Juan Carlos Palacios Cívico does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant ...

For International Day of Happiness, DW asked young people if they can still be happy despite global warming, wars, the rising cost of living and increasing loneliness. Joana Meurkens didn't have ...