Foreign policy communities in open societies love to debate their own relevance. Analysts quarrel over whether their insights inform statecraft or merely decorate it, and governments alternately ...

In mid-August, the Taliban marked the fourth anniversary of their ascension to power in Afghanistan. During this period, the movement has maintained control over Afghanistan and succeeded in ...

Linda Robinson’s career as a foreign correspondent and researcher has taken her through Latin America and the Middle East. She chatted with CFR about being an immersion journalist and the importance ...

The Trump administration’s new AI Action Plan calls on multiple agencies—including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Energy, National Science Foundation, and the ...

There are a lot of brilliant foreign policy thinkers at the State Department—I was not, and am not, one of them—but I got to see the nexus between whatever political issue was on the front page of the ...