Foreign Policy in Focus

Let’s say the U.S. actually curbed its military adventurism, reeled in the Pentagon budget, and closed its global network of bases. Then what?

Despite Washington’s move toward detente with Iran, other regional conflicts — especially in Israel-Palestine, where an “intifada of knives” is underway — are looking as volatile as ever.

Washington is one of the most active players in Syria’s civil war, but it’s accepted effectively 0 percent of the conflict’s refugees.

Putin’s attempt at “shock and awe” in Syria has all the hallmarks of failed U.S. interventions of the past

Under Obama, whistleblowers face a total of 751 months behind bars — compared to 24 months for all other whistleblowers combined since the American Revolution.

The chain of events set into motion by the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq is reaching its logical conclusion — the disintegration of multi-ethnic states and a great expulsion of innocents.

The quintessentially American urge “to boldly go,” regardless of consequence, has gotten humanity into a heap of trouble.

Hillary Clinton just laid out a hawkish foreign policy vision in a major speech. How do her views stack up against those of Bernie Sanders, her challenger from the left?

Here’s how the U.S. can leverage its wealth, safety, and diplomacy to serve the refugees it helped to create.

The world’s two major powers lost a decade that could have been spent hashing out responses to climate change, the arms trade, and the global recession.

South Korea should focus less on extracting apologies from North Korea and more on pursuing pragmatic projects with Pyongyang.

For the refugees pouring into Europe, their journeys can be just as deadly as the war zones they’re fleeing.

Donald Trump’s not-so-veiled racism, crude economic populism, and male bravado make him the closest thing the U.S. has to an authentic European-style fascist.

The Obama administration has concluded deals with Iran and Cuba. Will North Korea round out the trifecta?

Like it or not, diplomacy is all about backroom deals.

Visual artist Arko Datto combines satellite images and text to paint a picture of migrant workers’ lives in the Arabian Peninsula — and his findings aren’t pretty.

You may have heard that “both sides” committed abuses in last Gaza war. But there’s no comparison when it comes to the scale of the violations — or the body count.

In their latest deal to fight ISIS, Washington and Turkey are treating the Middle East’s largest stateless minority like pawns. That’s a huge mistake.

From Athens to Tehran, powerful countries make the rules and break the rules. Everyone else just squeezes the best deal they can — for now, anyway.

The nuclear deal with Iran, like Nixon’s opening to China in 1972, has the potential to be a geopolitical game changer — if it can get through Congress first.