Foreign Policy in Focus

Right-wing “intellectuals” uncomfortable with the Black Lives Matter movement have latched onto a dubious historical analogy.

The storm ravaged India and Bangladesh all the worse because of social and economic inequality. The same, or worse, could happen here.

Many of the establishment figures now turning on Trump have blood on their hands. But that’s the point.

America’s racism is destroying its advanced status in real time — and with it, the most redeeming parts of liberal internationalism.

The G7 kicked Russia out over its invasion of Crimea. Does the U.S. assault on international laws, treaties, and democracy warrant the same treatment?

Trump’s economic war on China comes in the shadow of an even deadlier military escalation. And it may not stop after November, no matter who wins the election.

An (imagined) conversation on the trade-offs between lives and dollars.

Trump botched his COVID-19 response disastrously, so now he’s giving anti-China conspiracy theories the full weight of the U.S. government.

How will the coronavirus transform the relationship between state and market? A look at oil, food, and finance.

South Korea, having beaten back the coronavirus, is now poised to show the world how to move forward to save lives, democracy, and the planet.

Donald Trump could end up in court over his mishandling of the coronavirus.

We will always play catch-up with these wily viruses if we continue our all-out war on the environment.

Hungary’s authoritarianism, Portugal’s generosity, Italy’s call for solidarity, Germany’s tightfistedness: European responses to the crisis are varied.

International cooperation needs to take priority right now, and countries must stop their wars against one another and against their own populations.

For the far right, the pandemic is a chance to enact border controls and erode the rule of law. It could also expose their utter incompetence.

Trump’s message to governors on lifesaving medical equipment — “get it yourselves” — is grimly appropriate in a country without national health care.

Donald Trump attempts to take out his electoral adversaries one by one, Mafia-style.

The Spanish flu helped herald the collapse of the first wave of modern globalization. A century later, could the coronavirus do the same?

Whether Russian hackers, viruses, or unscrupulous investors, the Trump administration has made it much easier for foreign agents to destabilize the U.S.

Democratic candidates offer a wide range of foreign policy views. These won’t decide the election, but they could have a huge post-Trump impact.