U.S. Foreign Policy

Washington is increasingly playing a central role in the backlash against LGBTQ people.

But for the new policy on democracy and human rights to work, Donald Trump needs to stop undermining them.

The Israeli government could fall soon, triggering new elections.

Donald Trump has the support of his base for a muscular foreign policy.

The Blob is back—and other explanations for the Trump administration’s foreign-policy flip-flops.

Amid Elbridge Colby’s review of the submarine deal, three books consider the future of the alliance itself.

Trump did not invent hardball U.S. diplomacy with Panama. Then, as now, it is doomed to backfire.

But there won’t be peace without additional pressure on the Kremlin.

With the United States ceasing to care, Ukraine’s domestic reforms are falling flat.

ASEAN leaders will have noticed Washington’s increasing preoccupation with the Middle East and Western Hemisphere.

The president’s recent moves don’t fit the usual binary of U.S. foreign policy—but there is a historical precedent.

The Trump administration’s analysis of the war with Iran is an exercise in pure narrative.

New policy memo stops short of maximum pressure in a blow to hard-liners.

The summit’s focus on economic development and climate still managed to provoke threats from Trump.

Severe mission creep has distracted U.S. diplomacy from its core purpose in an era of great-power competition.

Success in the Middle East could be a template for a new approach to Russia’s war.

In a crowded Illinois congressional race, 26-year-old Kat Abughazaleh is the only contender focusing on the wider world.

A new deal with the United States highlights Beijing’s tight grip on a crucial sector.

Biographer Edward Luce on the life and legacy of former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Trump forces a reckoning with China on a key Indo-Pacific ally.

Essays on the historical presidency.

No other president has made his time in office so nakedly about himself and his legacy.

It’s Carl Schmitt’s world, and we’re all just living in it.

Trump’s approach to Iran shows that America’s crisis of manhood has hit the global stage.

Nuclear uncertainty is bad for regional stability.

The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States were really about less than they seem.

Experts say the 2015 nuclear deal constrained Tehran’s nuclear ambitions better than the recent U.S. strikes.

China is happy to step back from the Middle East so that it can challenge the United States where it counts.

Trump’s insistence on zero enrichment was a poison pill in talks with Iran.

Why the official justifications for the war don’t have legal merit.

A new book explains the danger of the far right—and how to counter Washington’s support for it.

Multifront conflicts have never ended well for the countries that provoked them.

A new poll finds serious faults with the president’s foreign policy in his first 100 days.

Targeting students based on party affiliation is fundamentally misguided.

Silicon Valley Rep. Ro Khanna is cautiously optimistic.

A conversation with Zoomer author and commentator Kyla Scanlon.

Though the Trump administration hasn’t provided details, a rough estimate suggests a staggering impact.

If nuclear talks fail, a war with Iran could follow—but it wouldn’t be a cakewalk.

Will he be the president to finally break America’s addiction to Middle East interventions?

Rather than reducing their exposure to the region, companies are on a building spree.

The United States already lives with a near-nuclear Iran—and has for some time.

China’s salami-slicing in the South China Sea is eroding U.S. credibility.

As global trade fractures, it’s time to retire one of development’s most persistent—and misleading—slogans.

You don’t need to be an idealist to be worried about Donald Trump’s approach to global order.

What seems like chaos is in fact a unified plan to reshape the United States.

Ongoing fears of student espionage are largely unfounded.

It’s increasingly difficult to understand Trump’s foreign policy without an ideological lens.

An international order founded not on institutions but on hegemonic benevolence proved impossible to sustain.

There are signs Trump might abandon “maximum pressure.” That’s good news for U.S. interests—and Venezuelan democracy.

The meeting with Ramaphosa marked a reversion to the open racism of U.S. presidents long past.

The U.S. president has correctly abandoned decades of tradition in the region.

The Trump administration should embrace a smarter form of transactionalism.

The life and meaning of Zbigniew Brzezinski.

In Beijing this week, Colombia joined the Belt and Road Initiative, and Brazil notched key investment pledges.

Trump is considering unilateral military action against drug cartels.

Trump’s speech allows Mohammed bin Salman’s regime to continue its killing spree without censure.

Colombia relied on U.S. funding to support Venezuelan migrants. Now, many are on the brink of survival.

In dealing with Netanyahu, the U.S. president appears to actually be living up to his campaign slogan to put America first.

But big questions remain about what happens next.

Franklin Roosevelt warned that even in peacetime, America’s obligations to the world would continue.

The distinguished scholar, who coined “soft power,” shaped five decades of U.S. foreign policy.

U.S. authorities slapped a terrorist designation on two groups as Haiti’s crisis deepens.

Instead of focusing on Asia, the U.S. Defense Department is spreading itself thin.

It’s time to take great-power politics seriously.

While U.S. military leaders fret about China, Trump has dismissed the Asia-Pacific.

Three new action movies struggle to navigate the United States’ uneasy role in the world.

Argentina’s economic overhaul passed a key test—and earned support from Trump.

President Lai Ching-te’s rhetoric increases the risk of war with China.

Multiple kinds of agreements are possible—but only one would be effective.

Emma Ashford: “This isn’t some abrupt shift or aberration.”

Who has been front and center and who has been sidelined in the administration during the U.S. president’s first 100 days.

It’s clear that the second Trump administration is aiming for change—not inertia—in U.S. foreign policy.

Beijing and Washington are putting third parties in a painful position.

The U.S. secretary of state stands for no principle other than serving the man who appointed him.

Both men granted the Pentagon blank checks to spend on their outlandish national-security obsessions.

Despite a Supreme Court order, the White House remains opposed to facilitating the Maryland resident’s return.

A wider-than-expected victory for incumbent Daniel Noboa keeps Ecuador in the pro-Trump camp

Pierre Poilievre’s path to power looked assured—until Donald Trump returned.

Foreign journalists who worked for U.S.-funded outlets could face persecution.

Here’s how the Pentagon can rebalance its approach to the continent without sacrificing U.S. interests.

Are they a soft-power opportunity or a national security threat?

This administration will leave an indelible mark on how international relations is taught for a generation to come.

A step-by-step guide to Donald Trump’s destruction of U.S. foreign policy.

A not-so-restrained final intervention from Emma and Matt.

The region has avoided the worst-case scenario so far, but reciprocal duties will still hurt.

He’s not wrecking postwar U.S. foreign policy. He’s bringing it to its logical end.

The history of intelligence scandals reveals just how routine—and not—Signalgate has been.

The Trump administration continues to create headlines, but the real story may be elsewhere.

The monarchy came to Ottawa’s defense when it faced previous U.S. threats.

Trump’s indifference and aid cuts are exacerbating the world’s largest humanitarian crisis.

Vice President J.D. Vance is the highest-ranking U.S. official to ever travel to the island.

That, and a little costly, preemptive surrender.

Trump’s WHO withdrawal and cuts to research and aid are making it harder to prepare for the next pandemic.

The White House wants to acquire the mineral-rich island, but European authorities are refusing to back down.

If Turkey and Saudi Arabia follow Indonesia in joining the bloc, it could gain more geopolitical heft.

Regional reactions are muted as countries pick their battles with Washington.

Human rights organizations have gathered credible evidence of systematic corruption, torture, and killings.

The White House is using client states to carry out illegal and unconstitutional expulsions.

Not all political upheaval is created equal.

Asylum applications in Mexico are up, and northbound crossings in Panama are down.