Election 2020

The Democratic candidate’s choice of vice president says more than you might think about his foreign policy—and his own self-image.

The presumptive Democratic nominee was one of the most impactful vice presidents ever.

The California senator is the first Black and South Asian American woman to back up a major U.S. presidential ticket.

Israel's plan to annex parts of the West Bank seems off the agenda for now, but Trump might push Netanyahu to proceed anyway.

The presidential historian Timothy Naftali notes there’s no historical precedent for delaying an election, even in the middle of major wars, but Trump’s Republican Party is all about holding on to power.

If Joe Biden wins, here are some of the top foreign-policy experts who could be tapped for senior and midlevel jobs in the administration.

His last remaining objective is obtaining foreign help for his reelection.

Kamala Harris and Joe Biden align closely on foreign-policy views, but Susan Rice has by far the most direct experience in U.S. foreign-policy making.

If Biden picks Obama’s national security advisor as his running mate, Benghazi would hardly be her biggest vulnerability.

Fascism can happen in America. Some of it has already happened, and more will happen as Trump fights to stay in power.

Joe Biden is part of an insular Washington culture that produced the Iraq War—and the pathologies of the Trump administration.

History’s autocrats have been the architects of their own demise. Even if he seizes power, so will Trump.

Four years of neglect, unilateralism, and failed diplomacy have left America’s alliances in tatters. It’s time to rebuild them.

To win in November, Democrats must avoid being lured into Trump’s culture war.

Geopolitical ignorance is no longer funny when it impacts U.S. national security.

Message to both sides: Keep the military (and retired generals) out of politics, including the election campaign.

More national security experts are running for Congress in 2020 than in most past elections.

The incident that led to the president’s impeachment was only part of a larger pattern, former national security advisor writes.

The Democratic candidate wants to get tough with Beijing, but he’s responding to Asian American pleas not to provoke a backlash.

We may be witnessing the beginning of the end of American democracy, but there is still a way to stop the descent.

Though he’s eager to accommodate Bernie Sanders’s base on domestic issues, the presumptive Democratic nominee is still seen as a man of the past by progressives.

The former vice president’s team is already in touch with the Sanders camp about a unified platform, operatives say.

Bernie Sanders left the stage just as much of the U.S. government—and the world—was turning to his socialist ideas in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

The shape of the 2020 race is now clear: a trusted establishment Democrat versus an incumbent rallying Americans against an “invisible enemy.” Can Trump pull it off?

Trump’s reelection prospects are looking dimmer—for the moment.

The results of Super Tuesday will help decide whether more Americans embrace runaway populism or a lost status quo.

Bernie Sanders wants to reinvent progressive foreign policy. Here’s the man he hopes will make that happen.

Former Pentagon official and campaign veteran Doug Wilson is helping the U.S. presidential candidate stand out from the pack on foreign policy.

The rising Democratic challenger’s business ties to America’s biggest rivals and his sympathetic comments about Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin raise questions about how tough he’d be with them as president.

Despite promising to restore U.S. leadership, the former vice president is fast fading from the 2020 race as his “most electable” pitch falls flat.

After Iowa, Bernie Sanders’s progressive views will shape America’s approach to the world for a long time, especially on trade.

With a trimmed-down field, Democratic hopefuls sparred over Iraq, Iran, military deployments, and the threat from climate change.

The slate of Democratic candidates includes two Rhodes scholars, two ex-soldiers, and a former chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But don’t count on them to resurrect a Pax Americana.

No one can touch him on foreign-policy experience, especially Trump. But his long voting record will also be a vulnerability, starting with Iraq.

Trump will continue targeting immigrants, while the Democrats will target the rich. Success in 2020 will depend on the messaging.