Obama

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.

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

Bashar al-Assad won. It’s worth thinking about why the United States didn’t.

From alienating allies to starting trade wars, Trump has made plenty of foreign-policy errors. But his biggest blunder is the one Obama handed him.

The Obama staffer's memoirs depict an administration that wanted to change history, but never got past managing crises.

From an international perspective, the 45th president doesn't seem like a bolt from the blue.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has put the Middle East on a collision course. And the White House will own the consequences.

ICAN isn’t the Nobel Peace Prize winner that policymakers wanted, but it’s the one they deserve.

The Obama administration didn’t botch negotiations with Tehran. And Trump isn’t going to be able to get something tougher.

The Chinese are massively investing in AI research and tech, while the Trump administration is cutting federal programs wholesale.

Bush and Obama already helped destroy the region and damage U.S. interests there. How much worse could it get?

Providing sanctions relief to empower the Cuban people does not mean we should give up our ability to pressure the Castro regime.

Reports are coming in that this Friday, in a Miami speech, President Donald Trump will unveil his revisions to former President Barack Obama’s controversial policy to normalize U.S. relations with the Castro dictatorship in Cuba. He's right to scale it back.

Washington set to reject the U.N. chief’s latest appeal for money to tend to Haiti’s cholera victims.

Different choices by the Obama administration could have made it harder for the Islamic State to become as powerful as it did.

An insider’s view on how we got here — and what Trump can do about it.

Anxious allies are breathing a sigh of relief that American power is back as a force to be reckoned with.

While Trump railed against the Iran deal during the campaign, he rarely called for undoing it.

The last president wanted an end to nukes, but did nothing to achieve it. Trump won’t even talk about nonproliferation. The result is chaos.