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December 30, 2011
Politics and Government
Friday File: Farewell to Iowa
The U.S. and Iowa state flags fly at a rally for Mitt Romney in West Des Moines on December 30, 2011. (Brian Snyder/courtesy Reuters) Above the Fold. As the Roy Schneider character says at the start…
November 19, 2008
Elections and Voting
Foreign Affairs: Foreign Policy Challenges Facing the Obama Administration
A year ago, Senator Barack Obama first described how he would confront the foreign policy challenges he would inherit if elected president in "Renewing American Leadership." On January 20, he will t…
February 27, 2012
United States
What Else We Don’t Know About Drones
In 1982, on a tour of the Middle East to monitor the deployment of U.S. Marines to Beirut, Lebanon, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger received a security briefing from his Israeli counterpart, A…
April 7, 2015
Conflict Prevention
Guest Post: Stuck Between Maduro and a Hard Place
Brian Garrett-Glaser is an intern in the Center for Preventive Action at the Council on Foreign Relations. Venezuela is experiencing a protracted political and economic crisis that is likely to wors…
December 4, 2014
Global
Noncommunicable Diseases in Developing Countries Emerging As a Global Health Crisis, Warns CFR Task Force
Rates of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and other noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) in low- and middle-income countries are increasing faster, in younger people, and with worse outcomes than in wealt…