• How Fidel Castro maintained a communist stronghold

    How Fidel Castro maintained a communist stronghold

    Nov 26, 2016 10:22 PM EDT

    ... history and what it means now, I’m joined here in the studio by Carla Robbins, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. She's also a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist formerly with the "New York Times," "The Wall Street Journal" and "U.S. News & World Report ...

  • What Henry Kissinger thinks about Obama, Trump and China

    What Henry Kissinger thinks about Obama, Trump and China

    Nov 22, 2016 12:26 AM EDT

    ... view and understand how to manage that aspect of Chinese relationships without coming to war. The stability of the entire world depends on a constructive relationship between the United States and China. If that relationship deteriorates it's bad for the U.S., it's bad for the entire world ...

  • Column: How cities and states are leading the fight for more beneficial trade

    Column: How cities and states are leading the fight for more beneficial trade

    Nov 02, 2016 07:06 PM EDT

    Editor’s Note: Edward Alden, former Washington bureau chief of the Financial Times, is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he specializes in U.S. economic competitiveness. This is an excerpt from his new book, “Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global ...

  • Amid anti-immigration wave, some small towns welcome refugees with open arms

    Amid anti-immigration wave, some small towns welcome refugees with open arms

    Aug 05, 2016 08:52 PM EDT

    ... Refugee Resettlement Program, the local affiliate of the USCRI, recommended that 100 Syrian refugees be sent to Rutland. The group is awaiting approval from the U.S. State Department and the refugees could begin to arrive in November, said Stacie Blake, director of government and community relations for USCRI. A ...

  • Obama and Singapore's prime minister tout TPP trade pact

    Obama and Singapore's prime minister tout TPP trade pact

    Aug 02, 2016 12:59 PM EDT

    ... state dinner for Lee will be the first held for a Singaporean leader since October 1985, when Ronald Reagan hosted Lee's father, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. The U.S. and Singapore opened diplomatic relations in 1966, a year after the U.S. recognized Singapore's independence from Malaysia.

  • China has reclaimed 3,200 acres in South China Sea, Pentagon says

    China has reclaimed 3,200 acres in South China Sea, Pentagon says

    May 13, 2016 07:17 PM EDT

    ... identification zone over the South China Sea. The report also repeats assertions by Defense Secretary Ash Carter that continued provocation by China may only improve U.S. relations in the Asia Pacific. "China's increasingly assertive efforts to advance its national sovereignty and territorial claims, its forceful rhetoric, and lack ...

  • What the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will mean for food prices, wages and medical tourism

    What the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will mean for food prices, wages and medical tourism

    Jul 24, 2015 05:52 PM EDT

    While many of us head to beaches or backyard barbecues this weekend, negotiating teams from 12 nations will be busy working on perhaps the most important trade deal of our generation — the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

  • Trump doubles down on immigration comments in Vegas speech

    Trump doubles down on immigration comments in Vegas speech

    Jul 12, 2015 08:40 PM EDT

    Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump criticized U.S. immigration and trade policies on Saturday in speeches that veered from accusing Mexico of deliberately sending criminals across the border to professing respect for the Mexican government and love for its people.

  • Remembering Lee Kuan Yew, an autocrat who created a successful modern nation

    Remembering Lee Kuan Yew, an autocrat who created a successful modern nation

    Mar 23, 2015 04:59 PM EDT

    For Lee Kuan Yew, lifting the tiny nation-state of Singapore into a world-class city took single minded, even ruthless determination and a deep involvement of the state in the smallest matters. The result is a multi-ethnic population able to educate their youth to the highest possible levels, and a ruling class remarkably free of corruption.

  • Can countries survive their move to the middle class?

    Can countries survive their move to the middle class?

    Mar 17, 2015 12:21 PM EDT

    HANOI, Vietnam -- Vietnam has pulled itself up economically over the decades. One of the consequences? Diminishing donor funds.