Foreign Policy in Focus

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.

Father Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann was a man who spoke truth to power and expected others to do the same.

Bureaucracy may constrain the worst of Trump and Brexit, but returning to the status quo won’t fix anything.

South Korea can take the lead in establishing better relations with North Korea.

If Trump is a Manchurian candidate, on whose behalf is he working?

With a divided U.S., the way is clear for China to become the dominant power in Asia. But don’t sign up for a crash course in Mandarin quite yet.

In one video clip, a glimpse of the Trump team’s plan to divide Europe, cozy up to right-wing dictatorships, and rally the extreme right.

With plummeting ratings back home, Donald Trump is looking overseas for support. He’s going to have to apologize first, though.

In the aftermath of Watergate, the country turned to the left. Are progressives positioned to capitalize on Trump’s stumbles today?

Europeans want to upend politics as usual and the far right is still rising. If the left doesn’t come up with an unusual politics of its own, it will be upended as well.

Trump wants to “renegotiate” trade deals like NAFTA. But there’s no evidence he wants to fix their corrosive impact on labor protections or environmental standards.

Are Trump’s stumbles a brilliant ploy to “deconstruct the state,” a political performance, or actual incompetence?

As famine descends on a huge swath of the globe, the White House is rolling back aid, ramping up conflict, and risking more climate chaos.

Britain has a lot to lose from Brexit, but the EU will fare worse.

It’s blustery nationalism plus the conventional pieties of the foreign policy establishment.

It’s not too late for diplomacy with North Korea’s leader.