On March 22, the USS Spruance, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, left Naval Base San Diego heading south towards the U.S.-Mexico border. A week prior, the USS Gravely also deployed to ...

Over the March 22 weekend, it was reported that the China Ship Scientific Research Centre (CSSRC) and its affiliated State Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Manned Vehicles have developed a ship able to cut ...

Brazil is the world’s seventh-most populous country and the largest economy in Latin America. Yet despite vast opportunities for economic development and global engagement, Brazil’s educational ...

On April 2, 2025—a date President Trump proclaimed “Liberation Day”—the administration announced the most sweeping tariff hike since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, the 1930 law best remembered for ...

On April 2, 2025, President Trump announced “reciprocal tariffs” on 57 trading partners. China was hit with a tariff of 34 percent. This was not the most extreme (Lesotho faces a 50 percent tariff) ...

Please join the Impossible State podcast for a special discussion on the final act of the South Korean political crisis trilogy, which has embroiled the country for over 18 weeks, and played out on ...

Fans of soccer (or football, as the rest of the world calls it) are familiar with the term “own goal,” which refers to a player scoring a point for the opposing team by sending the ball into their own ...

In this special CSIS crossover episode with Russian Roulette’s sister podcast, The Eurofile, Max Bergmann and co-host Donatienne Ruy welcome Tom Wright, senior fellow at Brookings and former Senior ...

On Wednesday, March 26, the Trump administration announced another tariff hike in the name of countering trade practices that impair U.S. national security. The White House announced a 25 percent ...

The U.S.-Japan-ROK trilateral relationship enables the United States and its Indo-Pacific partners to address regional challenges. What developments have taken place since the Camp David Summit in ...

President Trump’s repeated on again, off again tariff threats against the United States’ two largest trading partners, Canada and Mexico, along with his musings about making Canada the fifty-first ...

Beginning on April 9, the United States will impose country-specific “reciprocal” tariffs targeting 57 named countries, with rates reaching as high as 50 percent. At a minimum, each country will pay a ...