List of United States articles
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the auditorium of Eisenhower Executive Office Building on Jan. 16. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Trump Doesn’t Believe in His Own Foreign Policy. Does That Matter?
The president's policies often deviate from his dangerous preferences. But these divergences present their own problems.
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Sen. Patrick Leahy greets Sen. Marco Rubio on his first day back in Congress after suspending his presidential campaign, in Washington on March 17, 2016. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call) Senators Press Justice Department on Chinese State Media Outlets Registering as Foreign Agents
If Russian outlets have to file, lawmakers ask, why not Chinese ones?
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U.S. President Donald Trump during the college football national championship game on Jan. 8 in Atlanta, Georgia. (Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Last Week Was a Degrading Embarrassment. And a Microcosm of Trump.
It was a Category 5 blizzard of ignorance, crudeness, and recklessness.
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A pro-government activist holds a portrait of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, during a demonstration on Aug. 14, 2017. (Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images) In 2018, Chavismo’s Time May Finally Run Out
U.S. policy toward Venezuela is changing — and so are political dynamics in Latin America.
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(Getty Images/Zak Bickel illustration for Foreign Policy) The Islamic Republic of Hysteria
The Trump administration’s Middle East strategy revolves around a threat that doesn’t exist.
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An effigy of Iran's pre-revolution leader Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Tehran. (Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images) A London Television Station Has Convinced Iran the Shah Was Great
Why are young Iranians demanding the return of the Pahlavi dynasty? Media-savvy exiles in Europe.
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Sen. Bob Corker (left) and Sen. Ben Cardin prepare to listen to testimony at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the U.S.-Russia relationship, on Feb. 9, 2017. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) Republicans Are AWOL on Russian Election Meddling
The GOP's absence from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's report on Russian interference is sad and abnormal.
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Iraqi forces on Nov. 4, 2017 after capturing the town of al Qaim from the Islamic State. (Ahmad al-Rubaye/AFP/Getty Images) Coalition Analysis Warns of Potential Islamic State Resurgence
The militant group is on the run, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be back.
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North and South Korean officials during a meeting at the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone on August 22, 2015. (South Korean Unification Ministry via Getty Images) It Is Not Time to Bomb North Korea
There’s no reason to start a devastating war when nonmilitary options are working.
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Iranian students scuffle with police at the University of Tehran during a demonstration on Dec. 30, 2017.(Stringer/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Disingenuous Support for Iranian Protestors Has Backfired
A selective approach to human rights is even more harmful than “America first.”
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A group of men stand before an ice sculpture of a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile at an ice sculpture festival in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Dec. 31, 2017. (Kim Won-Jin/AFP/Getty Images) ‘Much Bigger’ Buttons Have Nothing to Do With Deterrence
Trump doesn’t understand how armed diplomacy works.
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A U.S. Marine in a combat training exercise in Afghanistan on August 27, 2017. (Wakil Koshar/AFP/Getty Images) The Only Force That Can Beat Climate Change Is the U.S. Army
America’s military is the only institution that can break the partisan deadlock on the worst threat the nation faces.
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Rep. Ed Royce speaks during a conference on countering violent extremism, in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 23, 2017. (Drew Angerer/Getty Images) Rep. Ed Royce’s Failure to Hold Trump Accountable Is a Dereliction of Duty
The chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee should use his last year in office to reverse the unprincipled silence and moral weakness of Republicans in Congress.
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A South Korean government official checks the direct communications hotline to talk with the North Korean side at the border village of Panmunjom on Jan. 3, in Panmunjom, South Korea. (South Korean Unification Ministry via Getty Images) What’s a Nuclear Hotline Good For Anyway?
North and South Korea have revived their dormant direct line. That’s good news for the rest of the world.
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President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen meet in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on Jan. 4. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) If You Thought 2017 Was Bad, Just Wait for 2018
Last year, Trump corroded U.S. foreign policy, but avoided disaster. This year, there are powerful reasons to think that matters will worsen.
