List of Donald Trump articles
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the United Nations General Assembly on Sept 20. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Mahmoud Abbas Doesn’t Have a Trump Strategy
The U.S. president seems out to get Palestine, and there's nobody with the vision or charisma to do anything about it.
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President Donald Trump delivers a speech in Warsaw, Poland, on July 6, 2017. (Janet Skarzynski/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Nationalism Is Arbitrary, Dangerous, Incoherent, and Silly
Nationalism has a new voice. That makes it all the more imperative to take its claims seriously and meet them head on.
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Iranian students scuffle with police at the University of Tehran on Dec. 30, 2017. (STR/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Can Help Iran’s Protesters By Rejecting His Own Iran Policies
The first steps have to be international diplomacy, and lifting the travel ban.
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A demonstrator catches fire, after the gas tank of a police motorbike exploded, during clashes in a protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas on May 3. (Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images) 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2018
From North Korea to Venezuela, here are the conflicts to watch in 2018.
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Then-presidential candidate Donald Trump gives two thumbs at the Republican National Convention on July 21, 2016, in Cleveland, Ohio. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Trump’s First Year in Review: Views From the Republican Bench
Foreign policy veterans from previous Republican administrations look back on 2017 — the year of Trump.
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President Donald Trump at Yokota Air Base at Fussa in Tokyo on November 5, 2017. (Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images) How Donald Trump Learned to Love War in 2017
The president promised to deliver peace. But in his first year, he expanded every war he inherited.
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books_topimage Out With The Old: New Books on Collusion, Civil War, Doomsday, and Other Happy Tidings
FP staffers learn how democracies die and why Mussolini wrote a bodice ripper.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini at a joint press conference in Brussels on Dec. 5. (John Thys/AFP/Getty Images) U.S.-EU Obligations Should Cut Both Ways in 2018
The United States should be able to count on Europe’s help in isolating Iran.
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A television news screen with President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un at a railway station in Seoul on November 29, 2017. (Jung Yeon-Je/AFP/Getty Images) Trump Is Bluffing About Attacking North Korea in 2018
But that still might get us all killed.
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un address the 5th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea on Dec. 23. (KCNA/AFP/Getty Images) The United States Should Resolve to Avoid War With North Korea in 2018
The greatest danger to world peace in the coming year is the prospect of war on the Korean Peninsula — and Trump is making matters worse.
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Men wave rainbow and 'black lives matter' flags while marching in the annual LGBTQI Pride Parade on June 25, 2017 in San Francisco. (Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images) 2017 Was the Year I Learned About My White Privilege
I used to be a smart-alecky conservative who scoffed at “political correctness.” The Trump era has opened my eyes.
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President Donald Trump in front of the Warsaw Uprising Monument on July 6, 2017. (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images) How to Save Poland From Itself
Reagan intervened to rescue Poland from authoritarianism. Trump should do the same thing.
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"The Fighting Temeraire" (J.M.W. Turner/British National Gallery of Art/Wikimedia Commons) Trump’s National Security Strategy Is Nothing Like the British Empire’s ‘Blue Water’ Policy
The historical analogy is wrong — whichever way you look at it.
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President Donald Trump on his way to West Virginia on August 3, 2017. (Win McNamee/Getty Images) America Is Nowhere Near a Constitutional Crisis
Even if Donald Trump fires Robert Mueller, the country's constitutional system still wouldn't be threatened.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks alongside Secretary of Defense James Mattis at a cabinet meeting in the White House on Dec. 6, 2017. (SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images) Mattis as defense secretary: What it means for us, for the military, and for Trump
After eight years at Foreign Policy, here are the ten most popular Best Defense posts.