Foreign Policy in Focus

Why should we maintain our grossly expensive military-industrial complex when tax dollars are so desperately needed at home?

Two U.S. initiatives to provide Africans with electricity seem likely to lead to large, climate-polluting projects rather than the locally sourced renewable energy rural Africa needs.

John Kerry may have just accidentally earned himself a Nobel Peace Prize.

Serbians who live with HIV report that they are stigmatized and have difficulties gaining access to treatment.

As we focus on a particularly appalling human rights problem within its own context, we must remember the old labor slogan that ‘an injury to one is an injury to all.’

By defending Buddhists who attack Muslims Thein Sein is pouring oil on the fire.

Allegations of sarin use by the Syrian government are bedeviled by chain-of-custody issues.

Since the military coup that toppled the country’s elected Muslim Brotherhood government, the message of the many Egyptians we met last year resonates with even greater power.

From Edward Snowden to the Taliban-go-Miami Beach.

The removal from office of President Mohammed Morsi portends great excitement but even greater threats to democracy.

The lesson from the streets of Brazil, Turkey, and the Arab world is to avoid underestimating social movements still in their infancy.

Residual anti-communist beliefs that current state structures are only cosmetically altered versions of the old system have had to be overcome.

The case of activist Chen Guangcheng sheds light on how dependent American universities are becoming on tuition from Chinese students.

Your guide to how the U.S. immigration system affects women differently from men–and how the Senate bill will change it.

Hassan Rouhani’s win in Iran’s presidential election suggests that neither reformists nor conservatives are pleased with the country’s status quo.

Which is more useless? Missile defense or total surveillance?

Mandela’s first visit to the U.S. in 1990s revealed how much America had yet to learn about the anti-apartheid leader who had captured the nation’s imagination.

Fear? A simple need for speed? Or something else?

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s new Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan is as grandiose as it is unconscionable.

It regained prominence with the release of the 2011 film “Of Gods and Men.”