U.S. Foreign Policy

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

The Broadway musical offers lessons on everything from regime change to balancing ideals and interests.

The plan that worked to defeat the Soviet Union can work today against China—it’s just not what you think.

It’s not just that the United States has made mistakes—the very idea of U.S. global leadership is broken from the ground up.

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

Public hearings and classified briefings are another political casualty in the age of contagion.

They want waivers to speed medical supplies and humanitarian aid to Iran and other sanctioned nations hit hard by the pandemic.

The U.S. president's new national security advisor has replaced the White House’s previous chaos with a new type of dysfunction.

The most effective plan against the Islamic Republic has always been the most obvious—and the one nobody in Washington seems willing to try.

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

Tracking the sources of socialist conduct.

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

It’s not just Trump. Washington hasn’t had a coherent strategy for decades.

Putting America’s annual $3.8 billion of military assistance to Israel on the chopping block makes for good politics. But it makes no sense for U.S. national security.

The U.S. president is an unreliable ally.

The allies Trump has snubbed are shrugging off his impeachment—or just laughing.

After this week’s summit, members must keep turmoil in the political side of the alliance from undermining its military purpose.

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.

The Democratic candidates didn’t really want to talk about the rest of the world. But the devastating testimony on Capitol Hill this week—however it ends up—ensures they will.

Adding 8,000 foreign service officers won’t solve America’s diplomatic problems. State needs to prioritize data science, expand strategic planning, and encourage mid-career training, too.