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America’s second-largest immigrant group mostly supports Democratic candidates, but support for Trump has grown since the 2016 election.

Many in the community worry that Trump’s anti-China rhetoric is fueling hate crimes.

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Niche foreign-policy issues could become make-or-break affairs for battleground races, from Cuba for Florida Latinos to the treatment of Somali refugees in Minnesota.

Daily takes by leading global thinkers on the most important foreign-policy issues not being talked about during the campaign.

Columnist James Traub offers an inside preview of the foreign-policy vision, and instincts, of the potential 46th president of the United States.

After the peace deal with the United States, the militant group has doubled down on collecting “taxes” from Afghanistan’s coal miners.

Companies that make microelectronics for the Pentagon argue that the current bill could maintain U.S. defense dependency on China rather than fix it.

The damage done to U.S. standing in Asia will take decades to repair.

Whatever’s causing it, all signs point to Moscow.

The country has good reason to want first-strike capabilities. But the actual state of its arsenal suggests that it won’t get them.

The killing of a coloured teenager in Johannesburg exposed how the racial hierarchies created by apartheid continue to plague the country.

China won round one, and round two went to Russia. Can the United States and its allies take the third?

In interviews with former Islamic State members in hiding, religious concerns have been replaced with more quotidian worries.

An entrenched political system, self-serving leaders, and an ambitious protest movement seem to have set Lebanon’s revolution back where it started.

South Korea’s soft power should be a model for Beijing.

In a new book, Fareed Zakaria draws some hard but unavoidable conclusions about dealing with future viruses.

Declassified documents show how Moscow struggled to understand Beijing’s efforts.

After a year of chaos, a familiar face is returning to the top of a country that desperately wants change.

Trump's foreign-policy instincts might be more sound—but he has forfeited the chance to lead.

Bangladesh, once far behind, just surpassed India in GDP per capita. All the more reason for Modi to focus on the right reforms.

U.S. policy to contain China will require a lot more continuity with Trump than Biden’s backers would like to admit.

Ignoring the central role of race and colonialism in world affairs precludes an accurate understanding of the modern state system.

International relations theorists once explored racism. What has the field lost by giving that up?

How the physical environment affects our experience of difference.

Western dominance and white privilege permeate the field. It’s time to change that.

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