Joe Biden

Why Biden thinks the way he does about foreign policy, what the future holds for an America on the brink, and what the Cold War policy of containment means for our current moment—all from our latest magazine issue.

Biden’s pick for the agency’s director shows that diplomacy is back.

John Kenneth Galbraith was an intellectual celebrity 50 years ago—and it would be a mistake to ignore him today.

By standing up for democracy and free trade, the United States can outflank China and Russia, its authoritarian rivals on the continent.

The fuzzy goodwill between Biden and America’s Asian allies will soon be tested by China’s growing power.

The next U.S. president isn’t an intellectual—and that’s a good thing.

The best way for Biden and Harris to build better partnerships abroad is to get America’s own house in order—and that begins with human rights.

Why Biden’s job will be so much harder than his predecessors’.

To stop drug traffickers, criminals, and kleptocrats from laundering their loot, the United States and EU must join forces.

Biden’s nomination of a retired general to head the Pentagon reinforces a dangerous trend. His confirmation must come with concrete safeguards.

The appointment of Kurt Campbell as Biden’s right hand on Asia will supercharge the incoming administration’s policy to counter China.

Why any new agreement would likely be worse than resuscitating the existing deal.

The world stepped up while the United States stepped back from defending human rights. The next U.S. president should join them.

But not in ways that will only further entrench the surveillance state.

Law and precedent bar the new administration from diplomacy before Inauguration Day. But that doesn’t mean its hands are tied.

An opportunity for Biden, populism’s online fires, and the need for transitional justice.

Labeling the Polisario Front a separatist insurgency rather than anti-occupation movement sets a dangerous precedent. But there’s also no strategic reason Biden can’t back away from Trump’s brash turn on day one.

This week’s escalation of tensions by Tehran looks like blackmail to force Biden to abandon sanctions—and give up leverage over the regime.

The incoming U.S. president must hold China and other countries accountable for religious persecution—and counter Beijing’s global campaign to destroy human rights.