The Biden Agenda
A sortable guide to the administration’s policies—and the people putting them into practice.
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His arrests of opposition candidates could seal the country’s political fate, but not if Biden fights back now.
If he succeeds, the president will cast 40 years of economic doctrine on history’s ash heap. But that’s a big if.
Beijing’s self-imposed problems make it a less threatening challenger than it seems.
To revive the project, Europe’s leaders should reassert the union as a global power.
Chinese officials’ own words speak to plans to reduce Uyghur births.
Opponents are calling foul, but the data suggests the event can be pulled off.
Here’s why and what their story means for other seafarers.
Without new funding, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon will close next month with little to show for more than a decade of work.
Only Washington has the carrots and sticks to steer the conflict towards resolution.
In a new global survey, respondents overwhelmingly supported freedom of expression—for anyone they agree with.
And he should use it to push for these three changes.
Progressives are upset with Biden’s modest proposal, but if implemented it would be a big step in global tax reform.
The ADB won’t finance coal, but its bans on dirty fuel may not go far enough.
A senior member of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Nord Stream 2, Belarus, and Biden’s upcoming summit with Putin.
With Naftali Bennett, the homeland of the Jewish people is about to see what it’s like having an observant Jewish leader.
The world is still vaccinating the few while neglecting the many.
When war broke out in Gaza, Arab countries chose rapprochement with Israel over solidarity with Palestinians.
The government dithered and denied the pandemic’s severity. Now, a health disaster looms.
The U.S. government has rejected the chance to study this year’s insurrection. They’ll soon regret the decision.
Military leaders want to “seize the initiative” against China.
We asked 25 experts to grade the administration’s start on foreign policy
The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?
What the new president really thinks about the military—and what the military really thinks about him.
Just like Roosevelt, Biden must show that government still works.
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?
Tangled questions of Asian identity need answers that aren’t defined by U.S. terminology alone.
Other countries offer good lessons for acknowledging and redressing past wrongs.
May brought an explosion of violence in Israel and Gaza—plus volcanic eruptions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, “sea snot” in Turkey, and the delivery of COVID vaccines around the world.
Biden repealed major restrictions on U.S. foreign assistance, but anti-abortion ideology still limits crucial reproductive care in the places that need it most.