Council on Foreign Relations

"Not every vaccine can be easily reformulated or repackaged. Prioritization is therefore needed, beginning with vaccines where change is most feasible, cost effective, or urgently required," write Prashant Yadav and Orin Levine for Think Global Health.

China instituted its One-Child Policy in 1979 as a national instrument to control population growth and drive GDP per capita increases. The consequences of this policy profoundly affected the status of Chinese women in education, marriage, and more, write Tahina Montoya and Kelly Atkinson.

"Easing zoning laws, abolishing unnecessary licensing regulations, and banning noncompetes in employment contracts for all but high earners would merely be the low-hanging fruit of a much-needed predistributive policy agenda that would help American workers help themselves," writes Benn Steil.

The second Trump administration has significantly ramped up immigration enforcement, putting pressure on federal, state, and local agencies to meet the president’s deportation goals. Some legal experts say President Trump is pushing the limits of presidential power. Read more about the administration’s approach to immigration enforcement:

Disputes between China and its neighbors, including the Philippines and Vietnam, in the South China Sea have intensified in recent decades. Trace the history of China's maritime disputes:

The UN climate conference (COP30) went into overtime to reach a deal amid a strained multilateral atmosphere and the absence of the United States. Countries made several agreements, but a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels, a commitment made two years prior, was not included in the final text. Explore CFR's timeline on climate talks since 1992:

Immigrants have long played a critical role in the U.S. economy, filling labor gaps, driving innovation, and exercising consumer spending power. But political debate over their economic contributions has ramped up under the second Trump administration.

North Korea’s provision of arms and personnel to Russia shows no signs of abating, write Molly Carlough and James Kennedy.

The UN authorization of a new security mission in Haiti marks an escalation in efforts to curb surging gang violence. Aimed at alleviating a worsening humanitarian crisis, its militarized approach has nevertheless raised concerns about repeating mistakes from previous interventions.

2025 will be remembered as a pivotal year that shifted the AI debate away from the ideal of transnational coherence and toward the reality of regulatory fragmentation, writes Kat Duffy.