Dar es Salaam. When President Julius Nyerere appointed Edwin Mtei as Minister for Finance and Planning in 1977, the decision placed two men of immense stature but fundamentally different economic ...

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Brad W. Setser is the Whitney Shepardson senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. In the days since U.S. President Donald Trump’s operation to capture Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches and smog ...

Alongside narcissism and selfishness, it's no surprise that levels of entitlement are on the rise. Whether it's a result of our consumeristic society, screen time and technology, or social norms, many ...

China’s renminbi is lagging the currencies of key trading partners, making Chinese goods and services cheap and helping to drive exports. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from Beijing A night at the ...

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Robert A. “Bob” Erlandson, a retired London correspondent for The Baltimore Sun who also covered Maryland political corruption in the 1970s, died of a stroke Nov. 7 at Sinai Hospital. The Towson ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. There are, broadly speaking, two competing theories that help to explain why ...

Anja Djuricic was born in Belgrade, Serbia, in 1992. Her first interest in film started very early, as she learned to speak English by watching Disney animated movies (and many, many reruns). Anja ...

Unlawful crossings along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2025 plummeted to the lowest annual level since the early 1970s, amid the Trump administration's sweeping clampdown on illegal ...