Essay

In FP’s 50 years, its writers’ forecasts have ranged from prescient to spectacularly wrong. That’s because the field of international relations rewards catastrophic thinking.

The best way for Biden and Harris to build better partnerships abroad is to get America’s own house in order—and that begins with human rights.

Neither pure isolationism nor unchecked internationalism has served the United States well. It’s time for a third option.

Why Biden’s job will be so much harder than his predecessors’.

Everyone writes off the European Union as dull and prone to fracture. But the last decade shows that Brussels is smarter than Beijing, London, Moscow, and Washington.

Seventy-five years after the first nuclear bomb fell, we are grateful it hasn’t happened again, mystified it didn’t, and terrified it still might.

History’s autocrats have been the architects of their own demise. Even if he seizes power, so will Trump.

The COVID-19 crisis could lead to a modern-day New Deal—but only if Democrats have the courage to replace failed economic policies with radical reforms.

The pandemic proved, once and for all, that the world can’t be flat. But global trade can recover—if we rewrite the rules.

The coronavirus pandemic won’t automatically lead to reforms. Great upheavals only bring systemic change when reformers have a plan—and the power to implement it.

The United States has abdicated its dominant role. Here’s how to fill the gap.

They swept the issue under the rug, and even Thomas Jefferson realized that civil war was inevitable before he died on July 4, 1826. But history could have taken a different direction.