Foreign Policy in Focus

Biden can’t say he’s putting human rights first and then welcome a prime minister who boasts about war crimes to the White House.

More Afghan-like tragedies will be inevitable until we squeeze the personal profit out of prepping for war.

Afghanistan is not the only place at risk of takeover by extremists.

The two Koreas cannot by themselves stop the climate crisis, but they can establish a model that the rest of the world can follow.

Why is the far right jumping on the anti-vaccination bandwagon?

Child molestation is a very real problem. But the far right is far more interested in demonizing women, homosexuals, and the transgender community.

Bipartisan belligerence and spiraling Pentagon budgets threaten to undermine global climate action just when we need it most.

We’d better control machines before they control us.

The right wing has attacked Gwen Berry for her Olympic trial protest. A North Korean defector has joined that chorus.

America is back—to the same old, same old.

The victory of Ebrahim Raisi in Iran’s recent presidential elections may contain some surprising good news for the Biden administration.

Some in Washington may be so glad to be rid of Netanyahu that they’ll welcome his even more hardline successor.

Instead of consigning China to the doghouse, why not create one big Green reconstruction team?

More infectious strains of Trumpism are emerging for which we haven’t yet developed a vaccine.

Seoul and Washington should be working together to bring China on board for the kind of economic transformation that the planet so desperately needs.

If we extrapolate from the current trend lines, democracy will be gone in a couple decades, melted away like the polar ice. But although down, democracy is not out.

By mislabelling the radical members of the Republican Party “conservative,” the mainstream media gives them a veneer of respectability.

The Biden administration thought it could muddle through with the usual pro-Israel platitudes, but rising awareness of Israeli apartheid is making that impossible.

The only winner in the perennial confrontation between Israel and Hamas: Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu’s political troubles — and an arms industry eager to battle test new wares on Gazans — may help explain the latest escalation of violence.