Barack Obama

Facing its first major crisis, the Biden administration must confront a failure of U.S. diplomacy orchestrated by some of its own players nearly a decade ago.

In his memoirs, the former U.S. president seems uninterested in a critical appraisal of his drone policies. Considering the human suffering caused by America’s drone wars, Joe Biden should not make the same mistake.

The former U.S. president frankly assesses foreign leaders he met—and many fail to earn his esteem.

The vice presidential candidate’s foreign-policy takes are conventional, but her identity is transformational.

Washington should not talk itself into accepting Moscow’s aggression—again.

Anthony Tata says he retracts his 2018 tweets calling former President Barack Obama a “terrorist leader.”

Only a single formal check remains on U.S. killings worldwide.

The Trump administration is doubling down on vengeance as a foreign-policy doctrine, placing the United States and its allies in danger.

Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren are ready to move past the Obama administration—except when it comes to military intervention.

Inflated threats, concealed costs, and lack of accountability for failure—and the complicity of the foreign-policy establishment—have kept the infinity war going for 18 years.

The Central American country has become a transit zone for drug traffickers and the center of a biofuel boom. Dispossessed indigenous groups are paying the price.

The White House’s aggressive deployment of coercive economic tools has given rise to a growing geopolitical backlash.

Two new memoirs by Samantha Power and Susan Rice show how idealists became insiders—and what was lost along the way.

Bashar al-Assad is on the verge of victory after massacring his population with Russian help. But the EU’s fear of yet another refugee influx could spur action to stop the carnage.

With a potential recession around the corner, it is worth remembering how regulators contained the last panic.

Advocacy groups see the upcoming election as an opportunity to boost the number of women in senior positions.

One of Washington's most accomplished diplomats has traced how U.S. foreign policy went astray over decades—and how it can get back on track.

Financial wars damage and disfigure economies as much as military ones. Countries ravaged by sanctions need reconstruction, too.

America’s post-Cold War presidents could have taken a road that didn’t end at Donald Trump.

The Trump administration has gutted the budget for fighting far-right extremists, making it harder to stop attacks like the Pittsburgh massacre.