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As the U.S. government takes a greater role in private businesses, antiquated accounting rules are forcing agencies to make suboptimal decisions. A new method of accounting for equity stakes could modernize them.

On this episode of The Spillover, cohosts Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby discuss the U.S. government’s new habit of taking direct equity stakes in private companies, and its consideration of a 5 percent stake in Sam Altman’s OpenAI. Joined by CFR Senior Fellow for Geoeco…

After Iran’s attacks on merchant shipping killed the ceasefire, Trump said he would reimpose the U.S. blockade and resume airstrikes. But with no military path to regime change and the war already deeply unpopular at home, the president faces the same strategic dilemmas that have…

CFR President Michael Froman analyzes the wins from this year’s summit in Ankara.

Resolve at the NATO summit to bolster Ukraine and President Donald Trump’s newly supportive comments could create momentum for negotiations to end the war. But Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite a string of setbacks, appears ready to ramp up his aerial assault on Ukraine.

Five years after its generals seized power, Myanmar has collapsed into Asia’s deadliest war and a nearly unequalled humanitarian catastrophe. And yet, the rest of the world has decided to ignore the conflict amid other major geopolitical developments.

The U.S. president is single-handedly reviving a doctrine of the postcolonial left.

African intellectuals cannot continue to ignore the questions raised by recurrent xenophobia in South Africa.

Restoring Gulf oil and gas flows to prewar levels requires navigating a complex web of technical, commercial, and geopolitical obstacles—many of which remain unresolved.

We Discuss: Mentioned on the Episode: China’s “AI Plus” Initiative, State Council of China, August 2025 China’s New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan, State Council of China, 2017 Opinions expressed on The President’s Inbox are solely tho…

On this episode of The Spillover, cohosts Rebecca Patterson and Sebastian Mallaby stage a friendly cage match over two so-called dollar alternatives—gold and bitcoin. Patterson takes up gold while Mallaby, donning his technology hat, argues for bitcoin. The wager is simple: Has e…

The U.S.-Iran ceasefire is on the verge of collapse, and with it any prospect of restoring normal traffic through the Strait of Hormuz. Even if the agreement holds, transit fees, sea mines, billions in infrastructure damage, and deep regional mistrust pose significant obstacles t…

Stephen Sestanovich has spent decades studying U.S.-Russia relations and served as U.S. ambassador-at-large for the Soviet Union in the Clinton administration. He sat down with CFR to discuss witnessing Putin’s rise and the benefits of balancing government, think tank, and univer…

This is a joint blog with Brian Peters, a former risk manager and supervision officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. There are two significant reasons why China’s reported current account surplus ($735 billion) is much smaller than its goods surplus ($1.2 trillion), eve…

The rapid spread of a rare Ebola strain through Central and East Africa is testing local public health authorities and raising concerns about the state of global health security.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is pleased to announce the newest members of its Board of Directors. Effective July 1, 2026, Charles Q. Brown Jr., Marie-Josée Kravis, Daniel B. Poneman, and David E. Sanger join the Board, bringing a wealth of expertise spanning military le…

President Donald Trump’s signature tax bill is contributing to a contraction in the country’s clean energy manufacturing that threatens U.S. supply chains and competitiveness, just as rising electricity prices underscore the industry’s importance.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has launched a new Task Force on the Future of Cuba. The project will examine what the United States can do to promote a stable, prosperous, democratic Cuba over the next decade in the event of a political transition or significant opening. …

Eleven charts illustrate the extraordinary level of support the United States has provided Ukraine in recent years—though there has been no significant U.S. aid legislation since 2024, and combined European aid tops U.S. contributions.

After Trump called FIFA to review the red card that suspended the U.S. striker, soccer’s governing body cleared Balogun to play in his team’s next World Cup match. The reversal deepens a perception among allies that Washington honors the rules only when convenient—on the fi…

The Supreme Court’s decision this week on mail-in ballots got the most attention, but its decision on campaign spending may have a bigger impact on the fight for control of Congress.

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act gutted the wind and solar credits at the heart of Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. But a year on, the law’s preserved incentives for geothermal, advanced nuclear, and grid-scale storage may do more to cut global emissions than the credits it eli…

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), in partnership with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, has launched a high-level and timely Task Force on Energy Security, Technological Innovation, and American Leadership. The project ex…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is poised to use the Ankara summit to burnish his own credentials as a global power broker, and to signal his increasingly absolute power domestically.

We Discuss: Mentioned on the Episode: Robert Kagan, Dangerous Nation: America’s Place in the World From Its Earliest Days to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, Knopf Robert Kagan, The Ghost at the Feast: America and the Collapse of World Order, 1900–1941, Knopf Robert Kagan, The …