United Nations

The Hariri tribunal hasn’t led to a single arrest. Biden should let it expire and help Lebanon in better ways.

A U.S. State Department czar should lead a campaign to stop China and Russia from gaining control of multilateral agencies.

The conflict’s impact on the world’s ability to prevent atrocities will be felt for years to come.

Washington and its allies have several levers for reforms.

China and Russia capitalize on Washington’s resistance.

Female economists are rising to the top—everywhere but the U.N.

U.N.’s Yemen envoy, Martin Griffiths, is to become the U.N. humanitarian relief czar.

The shifting nature of war has made peacemaking more difficult. A new kind of back-channel diplomacy can help.

Nicolás Maduro has given the international community the opening it’s been waiting for.

Doing so would be a death sentence for global nonproliferation efforts.

Plans for a global pandemic treaty don’t solve the problem of China’s refusal to cooperate.

The U.N. dials up the pressure campaign against Myanmar’s putschists.

WHO has no power to demand openness or independently confirm data at present.

There are few better ways for the country to reclaim its credibility and moral authority.

Agency memo sidesteps questions around government’s role in Tigray.

The administration insists it can succeed where two U.S. presidents already tried and failed.

Despite the Trump administration’s declaration of a genocide in Xinjiang, upheld by the Biden administration, some legal experts suspect China’s behavior may fall short of actual genocide.

The administration is moving quickly to reassert U.S. leadership but needs Beijing’s support for major initiatives.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s journey from the Jim Crow South, why global celebrities are taking on Modi, and what the United States shouldn’t do about Myanmar’s coup.