United Nations General Assembly

The organization’s current cash crunch is a historic opportunity for reform.

The full range of regional politics was on display at the annual United Nations summit in New York.

Despite its failure to stop wars, the U.N. has made progress on issues from disease eradication to climate change.

War tends to stymie the international body, but smaller technical agencies still play a crucial role in running the world.

The outgoing U.S. president had little to offer on Ukraine and Gaza.

In his valedictory speech at the United Nations, the president declared that the center was holding. But things are falling apart faster than he can keep up.

As world leaders descend on U.N. headquarters, a Russian gambit on Sunday underscored tensions at the summit.

The threat of a second Middle East war is taking away from the "Super Bowl" of diplomacy.

Along with wars in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, the issues of sustainability, pandemic prevention, and nuclear weapons are on the agenda.

A new survey reveals that support for international cooperation among global south countries is dismally low.

As on Ukraine and other critical issues, the multilateral body is trapped in political theater.

The president of the General Assembly talks about the organization's possible next steps in the Israel-Hamas war.

At the United Nations, Lula makes the case for Brazil.

Ukraine’s president made an impassioned plea at the opening of the U.N. General Assembly to bring wrongdoers—such as Russia—to justice.

The USAID administrator says U.S. contributions to the U.N. are at a “high watermark.”

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield on reforming the world’s biggest multilateral organization.

Not a whole lot. But from Russia’s war to climate change and the global south, changes are afoot.

Inertia and rivalries are producing a dangerous breakdown of multilateralism.

How the United States can rejuvenate the global institutions it created.

The last international agreement on digital crime was in 2001. Why are experts so worried about this one?

Many of his domestic policy priorities align with the global campaign.

From its failure to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine to its inaction on Myanmar and climate change, the institution is under fire from all sides.

What U.S. ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield wants from the 77th U.N. General Assembly.

FP columnists and contributors break down the good, the bad, and the ugly from the 76th U.N. General Assembly.

Sergey Lavrov has honed the practice of body blocking U.S. and European diplomacy at every turn.

From COVID-19 to climate, the U.S. president will focus his first General Assembly speech on the world body’s indispensability.