Foreign Policy in Focus

The war on terror was supposed to be about making our country safer. As a Muslim American, I don’t feel safer at all.

If Trump succeeds in ramping up military spending and gutting everything else, we’ll be left with a bunch of nukes and an underfunded state — and no one but China to keep us afloat.

Successive U.S. military interventions upended the very international system the U.S. once pledged to uphold. Now the world faces the twin challenges of ISIS and Trump.

When the neo-fascist National Front is more willing to condemn neo-Nazis than Trump, we have a problem.

Some in the Trump administration are eyeing regime change in North Korea. They’re missing what’s really going on over there.

From Barcelona to Charlottesville, there’s an obvious double standard in how Trump treats terrorism. But let’s be careful how we talk about it.

It’s going to take a while for this trust-building exercise to have any kind of impact, John Feffer says on Intercepted.

A new Israeli law bans travel by anyone who supports a nonviolent boycott for Palestinian rights — including Jews who break with the government’s right-wing line.

When are we going to try something different?

The United States is using this Pacific colony as its own private firing range.

Like Mikhail Gorbachev, Trump helms a fading empire. But while the former Soviet leader supported democratization in his wake, Trump’s sowing the seeds of autocracy all over the globe.

Progressive Jewish groups are rising to criticize the Israeli occupation and fight fundamentalism in both Israel and the West.

In this fairy tale from 2050, the invisible monster of climate change continues to ravage the land.

From North Korea to Russia to the Middle East, there’s no shortage of deal-making needed. But beware the fine print of anything with Trump’s insignia.

By putting such a sinister face on it, Trump might have finally inspired lawmakers to rein in America’s post-9/11 war machine.

As a Palestinian, I can’t set aside my identity for two hours and root for an actor who spoke up for violence against people like me.

How should the United States respond to the detention and subsequent death of an American student who visited North Korea?

Quite the contrary: the United States, Dower argues, may have refined its techniques, but it has done nothing to minimize the brutality.

Progressives have to devise a comprehensive alternative that responds to both the challenge of Russia and the failures of liberalism.

Behind all of Trump’s boneheaded policies in the Middle East is an unmistakable urge for confrontation with Iran.