Foreign Policy in Focus

Globalists Really Are Ruining Your Life

1983 is an alternative history that bears disturbing resemblance to contemporary politics.

Where’s the Wall? Where’s the deal with North Korea? Where’s that Rust Belt revival?

On everything from climate to trade to the international order itself, the failure of the White House’s powers of persuasion were on full display at the G20.

The latest batch of nationalist and authoritarian leaders are beefing up their borders, but the proliferation of globalization isn’t stopping anytime soon.

The media is missing the real story on the peninsula. If that gives Koreans space to lead, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

It’s hard not to feel that all of humanity deserves a Darwin award when you see the effects of recent superstorms, the vanishing of polar ice, and the heedless drilling for oil and gas everywhere.

Republicans can only win by racial gerrymandering and voter suppression. And Trump can only win by using fear and racism.

John Feffer discusses the North and South Korea border, U.S. arms control agreements, and Brazillian president Jair Bolsonaro.

To challenge fascists and weak-tea liberals, Sanders has called for a Progressive International… but it’s not very international.

Saudi Arabia’s apparent assassination of Jamal Khashoggi might have taken inspiration from Russia and North Korea — or Israel and the United States.

What that Protestant Reformation can teach us about the durability of far-right movements — and the order they seek to replace.

Trump’s bullying worked with Canada, has half-worked with Iran and North Korea, but has had nothing but malign impact on Israeli-Palestinian relations.

Is denuclearization of North Korea part of the solution — or part of the problem?

The U.S. isn’t the only country where women are lining up to burn down the (frat) house.

Skyrocketing debt, Wall Street deregulation, a fraying social safety net, and a diminished dollar could soon leave the United States looking like Greece.

It’s never too early to come up with an agenda for 2020.

Critics like that anonymous op-ed writer have no problem with how Trump’s actually hurting people. They just want the leader doing it to look more presidential.

John McCain was a politician, not a maverick — he played ball, and sometimes compromised. Trump is the true maverick: He’s batshit crazy and there’s no dealing with him.

Sure, federal agencies have acted illegally — when the president tells them to. Trump’s war on the “Deep State” is entirely about impunity for himself.