These innovations are making it easier and cheaper to exchange currencies directly for one another rather than using the dollar as an intermediary currency. But for all the new opportunities these ...

Kennedy hoped that poverty in Latin America would visibly recede within a couple of years of USAID’s creation, as he was understandably worried that Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro’s Marxist ...

Foreign governments have tried to influence the United States since its founding. President George Washington warned in his Farewell Address that “foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of ...

Donald Trump has Pyongyang on his mind. In recent months, the U.S. president has made comments to the media suggesting he is in communication with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. In an August 17 ...

The world’s fertility crisis is more severe than is commonly understood. Last year, humanity’s total fertility level dropped below what demographers call the replacement rate—that is, the average ...

Just a few years ago, U.S. President Joe Biden caused a stir when he confirmed publicly that his administration would defend Taiwan if the island were attacked by China—a divergence from the ...

According to reports by the United Nations and the Global Terrorism Index, Africa is the overwhelming center of terrorist activity today. The African continent accounts for more than 50 percent of all ...

MIRA RAPP-HOOPER is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania and Director for Indo-Pacific ...

China’s worldview treats development as equivalent to capital accumulation and sees productivity as determined by the control and deployment of technology. It posits that the growth of the service ...

Can the United States and China simultaneously cooperate and compete on AI? That is the question driving debates in Washington about the wisdom of pursuing talks on the subject with Beijing. The Biden ...

With the midterms over, U.S. President Donald Trump is now a lame duck. Second-term presidents who lose control of Congress have to face the reality that the time for signature legislation or other ...