Americas

Washington and Tokyo need a sharp focus in a challenging era.

Decades of attempts to remodel the State Department haven’t worked—here’s why and how to do better this time.

A new book argues that America’s massive military is predicated on imaginary threats—and we’d all be better off without it.

Trump has been all but forgotten as the region looks to cooperate with Biden.

For decades, U.S. presidents have pledged not to talk about Israel’s nuclear arsenal despite pushing for nonproliferation in the region. It’s time for Washington to end the double standard.

Both sides should take the long view if they are ever to reconcile.

State-owned oil companies are on the verge of investing $400 billion in projects incompatible with the Paris Agreement. If they fail, it could spark an emerging market debt crisis.

The U.S. administration’s new foreign-policy doctrine is not so new.

Three factors come into play, and the United States demonstrates all of them.

Thant Myint-U on the future of the protests, what Beijing wants, and what Washington can do to help.

No divides are unbridgeable—but you have to know where to start.

Some Republicans are taking steps toward Europe’s model of religiously inspired social assistance.