Americas

The long-anticipated plan aims to selectively impose the U.S. president’s worldview around the globe.

Plus, more international fiction releases in December.

The populist right is trashing the expert class and replacing it with a naked rule of the rich.

A weak Congress means a deep toolbox for the president.

Ongoing immigration raids risk the success of the global sporting event.

The boom makes it hard for competitors to step away from a treadmill of continuous acceleration.

The country is the latest target of Trump’s partisan interventions.

The defense secretary is under scrutiny for a series of questionable decisions.

What the postponement of the Summit of the Americas reveals about regional relations.

The GAIN AI Act would have given U.S. buyers priority in the global AI race.

A term originally used to describe pirates is now synonymous with U.S. congressional dysfunction.

Bipartisan lawmakers are demanding congressional probes into the defense secretary’s handling of a deadly boat strike.

In diplomacy, the U.S. president always seems to follow his own transactional view of human affairs.

From Canada to Pakistan, an interest in critical minerals is a through line in the White House’s foreign policy.

There are lots of reasons why the Trump administration is angling for regime change in Caracas, but heavy oil isn’t one of them.

How Silicon Valley’s declining image is dimming America’s light.

The arrogance that led to Iraq now threatens catastrophe in Venezuela.

Military technologies used to address climate threats are often the same ones used for more nefarious purposes.

As the Trump administration pledges to meet global health targets, it has terminated some of its best tools for doing so.

The U.S. president was right to resist regime change before, and he should do so again now.

A clash of visions on human dignity and divine purpose.

The idea of a cohesive West is fading, but a new book finds that the concept endures.

These are trying times—but there's still plenty to be grateful for in the world.

Across the region, he has made it harder for Israel to act militarily.

The leaders talked trade, Taiwan, and—likely—Japan.

The U.S. should avoid a narrow Christian focus.

At home and abroad, his autocratic approach is starting to run aground.

Allies and adversaries alike know they just have to wait for the other shoe to drop.

The Trump administration’s cavalier approach to the rule of law is the end of an era.

Ralph Nader and the Watergate Babies challenged aging House chairmen.

Rapid geopolitical change requires an urgent debate in Japan.

Senators say Rubio told them the 28-point plan was not a U.S. product, only for the secretary to claim the reverse.

Trump’s attacks hit a “new low,” the head of the Committee to Protect Journalists said.

Zelensky said he’s being asked to decide between Ukraine losing its dignity or losing a key partner.

Environmentalist Bill McKibben on the incredible growth of clean energy in 2025.

Under Trump 2.0, a new book by policymaking heavyweights is an exercise in absurdity.

From medieval Europe to the Trump era, life really does imitate art.

The Gang Suppression Force repackages the same strategies that have failed the country for decades.

Why Washington’s foreign-policy community needs to take its conversation to a new platform.

Weekend elections in Chile and Ecuador offer a snapshot of a regional trend.

The U.S. president said he’ll work with regional partners to help end Sudan’s civil war.

The head of the Danish Refugee Council speaks about what she learned after meeting Sudanese refugees in Chad.

As Europeans debate who will fill the U.S. role on the world stage, an answer may already be apparent.

The president’s announcement of a crackdown on gender-based violence ignores its drivers.

The Saudi crown prince’s flashy trip to Washington was not enough to secure a formal atomic cooperation accord.

How some countries are quietly advancing progress.

Steve Witkoff reportedly hashed the details out with Putin’s envoy in Miami last month.

The only way to avoid war in Venezuela may be if its leader doesn’t fear leaving office.

Kirill Dmitriev is a prominent purveyor of the Kremlin’s line—but real power may lie elsewhere.

The U.S. made a global order that it’s now obsessed with overthrowing.

Hoping blindly for a technological solution for climate change that may never come is no solution.

Whatever the administration says, the U.S. is not actually at war with nonstate actors

The U.S. Development Finance Corporation was created to help alleviate global poverty. Trump has other ideas.

U.S. troops would be obliged to defend Riyadh.

The crown prince’s visit could result in a new U.S.-Saudi defense agreement.

The movement’s founders echoed the words of Thomas Paine and Abraham Lincoln much more than Karl Marx.

Switzerland cuts a deal—plus the latest global picture on Trump’s tariff regime.

Netflix’s “Death by Lightning” is a reminder that heroic individuals can emerge in trying hours.

Revisiting Pablo Larraín’s feature film about the advertising campaign that sent Pinochet packing.

Latin American climate solutions are on display at the annual summit.

High political walls are hurting an industry vital to the character of the country.

Western partners are distancing themselves from the U.S. operation.

The energy transition is not inevitable—but neither is business as usual.

María Corina Machado won the Nobel Peace Prize—but the fight for democracy is far from over.

And how the region is navigating a changed United States.

At COP30, the global energy transition is moving forward without the United States.

The commander in chief gets almost no preparation for the ultimate decision. That needs to change.

If Trump truly wants to be a peacemaker, he should banish the UAE from the negotiating table.

You can’t bomb your way out of an illicit market.

The continuing resolution could postpone the end for some State Department employees on leave.

Alarmed by Beijing’s rare earths chokehold, Washington is scrambling to plug other potential vulnerabilities.

It’s Latin America’s traditional beacon of stability—and the next country to vote for the far right.

After suffering two attacks, Qatar is doubling down on its security strategy.

Beijing dabbles in diplomacy at Web Summit.

How a fight over culling birds turned into an anti-government flash point.

Now even Switzerland can’t escape great-power politics.

The U.S. military buildup around Venezuela has drawn comparisons to past regime change in Panama. But Washington cannot invade its way to democracy in Caracas.

The United States is about to celebrate a very worrisome Veterans Day.

The region is facing historic levels of fragmentation, one expert said.

An extraordinarily deadly police raid in Rio was anything but an aberration.

By embracing Sharaa, Trump hopes to bring Syria into the U.S. order.

The 22nd Amendment was nothing but an act of vengeance against Roosevelt, Reagan believed.

On constitutional matters of war powers and tariffs, Republican lawmakers have abandoned the field to Trump.

Lucius Shepard’s hallucinogenic stories anticipated Trump’s war fantasies.

The economic shocks precede Chávez and Maduro.

From Afghanistan to Venezuela, the misleading term has inspired decades of misguided policies against real problems.

U.S. military might can help democratize Venezuela without sending troops.

Chile, Mexico, and Peru announced new trade talks at APEC.

The U.S.-Philippines-Japan partnership needs institutionalization.

Lawmakers—including Republicans—are frustrated over a lack of communication.

Trump would be right to try something new against the Venezuelan regime.

New York’s global profile gives it a powerful role in subnational diplomacy.

A number of justices are skeptical of reading too much into the president’s “unlimited” powers.

Why Big Tech’s energy problem might prove crucial to fighting climate change.

Brazil’s people-centered climate vision risks abandoning the most vulnerable.

A vague statement opens a range of expensive possibilities.

A top China scholar and former Biden administration advisor on the Trump-Xi meeting and the future of the U.S.-China relationship.

The storm’s devastation is a key test of the United States’ reduced humanitarian response abilities.

“I am Ukrainian, right? I’m not a Democrat or Republican.”

The former U.S. vice president set out to strengthen the power of the presidency and the country but ultimately undermined both.