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March 31, 2025

Sub-Saharan Africa
A Question of Freedom

When it comes to African development, foreign aid is just the beginning.

A child plays at an advocacy wall after receiving a dose of PEPFAR-sponsored antiretroviral drugs used to prevent HIV from replicating, at the Nyumbani Children's Home in the Karen district of Nairobi, Kenya on February 12, 2025.
Post by Ebenezer Obadare Africa in Transition

March 28, 2025

Sanctions
The President’s Inbox Recap: The New Era of Economic Warfare

The United States leveraged its dominance of the global financial system to deploy powerful sanctions against adversaries, but excessive use risks diminishing their strength.

Russian oil tanker transits the Bosphorus
Post by Oscar Berry The Water's Edge

July 6, 2022

Women and Women's Rights
Gender and Power in an Age of Disinformation: A Conversation With Mary Anne Franks

For women in the public eye, cultivating an online presence is often necessary and far too often dangerous. What can be done to make online spaces safer for women?

People stand in front of the entrance sign to Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, California on October 27, 2021.
Post by Catherine Powell and Haydn Welch Net Politics

July 24, 2012

Corporate Governance
The Dodd-Frank Act

The 2010 Dodd-Frank Act was one of the most significant financial regulatory reform measures since the Great Depression.  In the wake of the financial crisis, it sought to give regulators new tools t…

Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke and Chairman of the President's Economic Recovery Advisory Board Paul Volcker (R) testify before the U.S. House Financial Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 17, 2010 (Larry Downing/Courtesy Reuters).
Post by Edward Alden Renewing America

January 20, 2015

Human Rights
The U.S.-Burma Human Rights Dialogue: Frank Criticism but No Action

Last week, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski, U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell, and a group of other U.S. officials from State, Defense,…

Sinnuyar Baekon, 25, sits in front of her hut at a refugee camp outside Sittwe, the capital city of the Rakhine state June 9, 2014. Baekon is among many Rohingya Muslims living in squalid camps in Myanmar after being displaced by religious unrest. Baekon is from Rakhine state, where her family home was burned down in religious riots that broke out in June 2012. Baekon ended up in a refugee camp, where she is still living now. Her husband left her before she gave birth to twins, and she is struggling to fee
Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

March 23, 2025

China
The Evolution of Global Trade in 2024

A rebound in U.S. consumer imports fueled global trade, while Chinese import growth diverged from China’s export growth. Importers imported more, exporters exported more, and imbalances expanded.

The Evolution of Global Trade in 2024
Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money