Foreign Policy in Focus

As national governments lurch to the right, a citizens coalition is Barcelona is showing how ordinary people can reclaim control of their communities.

If Trump cracks down on journalists, there might be less uproar than you’d think.

Under fire from Washington, rejected by Manila, and overlooked by many Americans, undocumented Filipinos are linking arms with others in the anti-Trump resistance.

In Trump, the Kremlin got what it wanted — an America paralyzed by an incompetent administration at odds with more than half the country’s population.

As conditions in the U.S. deteriorate, the world will continue to suffer the consequences of U.S. military force — but without the mitigating influences of U.S. foreign aid and diplomacy.

By the time my dystopian future novel went to print, much of that future had become the present.

Trump the businessman is at war with Trump the ideologue over the question of Islam.

From Duterte to Trump, a new crop of populist leaders are reviving a tried and true method of demonstrating leadership — killing people.

An attempt at full-spectrum dominance may bankrupt the American economy and irreparably damage the global economy

What does it mean for international relations when the most powerful country in the world becomes a pariah state?

Trump is extremely effective at dividing and conquering his opponents. What would it take for progressives to divide his supporters?

Already Trump is super-charging U.S. militarism, gutting diplomacy, and punishing the victims of wars Washington started.

The world urgently needs a new generation of democratic internationalists — or there won’t be much of a world left when Trump’s confederacy of oligarchs gets through with it.

The UK Labor Party has revived an FDR-era aspiration of imposing a maximum wage on the highest earners, among other radical proposals to stem inequality.

When it came to race, climate, or diplomacy, Obama was like a visitor from the future. On trade and intervention, however, he was often stuck in the past.

Trump and Putin are forging a noxious alliance that gives an international platform to white supremacists and crusading Islamophobes.

Muralist Mehdi Ghadyanloo is the first Iranian artist to do work commissioned by municipal authorities in both Iran and the United States.

During the Cold War, the CIA did just the kind of meddling in foreign elections it’s accusing Russia of doing today — and more.

Austria’s latest vote shows the European ideal isn’t dead yet. But the far right is rising quickly.

Nothing defines Trump’s predictability more than his aggressive, Islamophobic, and anti-diplomatic choices for his foreign policy team.