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COMMENT: As the conflict in Sudan passes the grim milestone of 1,000 days, Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper writes that the ...

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Rising energy costs, unreliable power grids, and climate change continue to exacerbate the global energy crisis and its impact on both businesses and households. One major contributor to the calamity: ...

The Staggering Magnitude Behind the Numbers UNICEF warned in September 2025 that as global education funding faces steep cuts ...

Global hunger is rising, but total humanitarian aid from wealthy nations to UN is shrinking UN projects at least 117 million will go without aid in 2025 Germany, a top U.N. humanitarian donor, is ...

A new analysis of the world’s climate in 2025 finds that this year was one of the three hottest ever recorded, demonstrating ...

The global financial crisis was a widespread economic downturn that began in 2008 and resulted from the collapse of the housing market and investment banks. When the financial system or the economy as ...

Our company has survived some of the biggest global crises in modern history: COVID-19, the Great Recession and the Asian Financial Crisis. How did we do it? Although challenging, weathering these ...

Critics of the Trump administration’s early actions on global health—withdrawing from the World Health Organization (WHO) and paralyzing U.S.-funded international health programs—fear that those moves ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Robert Kaplan, acclaimed journalist and author of Waste Land: A World in Permanent ...