United Nations

The sudden departure of Brian Hook leaves the Trump administration scrambling to snatch some victory after two years of “maximum pressure” on Iran.

Trump’s Iran gambit is sweeping, punitive, and has little chance of success.

A two-state solution remains the only politically viable solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and, with the right Israeli and U.S. leaders, it can be achieved outside the Oslo framework.

An alliance of international health organizations are competing with the United States and other rich countries in an effort to secure vaccines for the world’s neediest.

Big and small powers increasingly handpick U.N. special representatives, testing the authority and independence of the U.N. secretary-general.

A Russian-Chinese veto threatens lifesaving aid to starving Syrians—but Moscow doesn’t care what anyone thinks anymore.

Reliance on arbitrary metrics, like a $1.90-a-day bar for poverty, masks huge and growing inequality in the world.

The rise of “vaccine nationalism” threatens to leave poor countries out in the cold. 

With Trump’s re-election prospects up in the air, a heated U.N. meeting on Iran shows world powers' fading fear of confronting the United States.

U.N. agencies have submitted themselves to government control and approval. Donors must demand higher humanitarian standards or send their money through other channels.

But the draft has little support among major powers at the U.N., reflecting Washington’s isolation on its Iran policy.

Protests against police brutality and systemic racism highlight what is seen as the United States’ accelerated decline.

The secretary-general changes course on staffers’ participation in demonstrations against police brutality in the United States, citing a U.N. history of fighting discrimination.

The Trump administration seeks to put an American in charge of the U.N. mission in Mali.

U.S. fails to gain support for an immediate investigation into coronavirus origins and for bringing Taiwan on as observer. 

As the coronavirus rages on, diplomacy has moved completely online—with mixed reviews.

Beijing insists the World Health Organization should act according to “the one-China principle.”