Foreign Policy in Focus

Will the November election be decided in the streets?

Even if Trump loses, his administration may have permanently damaged our standing abroad. But there’s a silver lining: it makes Trumpism an ideological dead-end.

Trump is doing whatever he can to make it impossible for his successor to resolve some of the world’s most intractable problems.

The alternative to Trump is not the glorification of military service. It’s promoting the kind of service that gets fewer people killed.

Donald Trump hates to lose. Here’s how he’ll try to steal an electoral victory.

The next president can’t just clean up Trump’s mess. They’ll have to prevent a resurgence of Trumpism — and learn from Obama’s mistakes.

The U.S.-brokered pact makes no pretense of peace for Palestinians. Instead, it sharpens a regional coalition against Iran.

The outbreak of COVID-19 initially looked like a gift to autocrats around the world — until they botched it.

Trump shrugged at 150,000 U.S. COVID-19 deaths. Who’s to say he’s above starting a fight with China or Iran?

Too many Americans belong to the cult of selfish individualism. In the COVID era, this has become a death cult.

A world led by a unified Europe would be a significantly better place than one mismanaged by a fragmented United States.

Countries’ bungling their responses to the coronavirus as others seal themselves off could lead to a total transformation of geopolitics.

Trump’s use of federal paramilitaries is a classic tactic of autocrats to test how far they can push their authority in opposition-controlled regions.

An outbreak of COVID-19 among U.S. service personnel on Okinawa may help anti-base protesters stop construction of the replacement facility at Henoko.

What blind spots will future generations condemn us for as they tear down today’s statues tomorrow?

It’s not Washington and Lincoln Trump imagines himself in the footsteps of — it’s Xi and Putin.

While Europe and Asia track down three-digit infection spikes at worst, the U.S. is dealing with over 40,000 a day.

South Korea is trapped between a U.S. rock and a North Korean hard place. It should consider changing its relationship with the rock.

What lessons can be learned from the end of the Confederacy, Nazi Germany, and Saddam’s Iraq?

You don’t need to lionize Bolton, a far-right hawk, to understand what makes his observations about Trump valuable.