The Far Right is Crazy–Like a Fox
Forget the deplorables and focus instead on the persuadables.
What Climate Debt Does the North Owe the South?
Richer countries haven’t met their $100 billion promise to help poorer countries move beyond fossil fuels. Where’s the money going to come from?
Colombia’s First Leftist President Charts a New Path on Venzuela
Gustavo Petro has rejected the failed “diplomatic siege” of his predecessors. But he also wants to see a more democratic Venezuela.
It’s Time for a Ceasefire in Ukraine
A ceasefire in Ukraine has been needed since day one—and it’s more urgent now than ever.
A New and Improved Foreign Policy In Focus
FPIF has always been at the forefront of foreign policy analysis in the 21st century — now it finally has a website that looks the part.
2012 in 16 Stories
Our biggest stories from 2012.
Naval Base Tears Apart Korean Village
The struggle over Jeju Island in South Korea is heating up, with civil society activists standing up against a powerful military.
China and the U.S. Debt
China is rightly critical of U.S. economic behavior. But it should also be looking more carefully at its own economic challenges.
Washington Needs a Progressive Drug Policy
The disastrous failure of the drug war shows the necessity of a revamped U.S. policy approach.
Interview With WikiLeaks Go-to Guy, the Nation’s Greg Mitchell
The Foreign Policy in Focus Wikileaks authority interviews the Nation’s WikiLeaks authority, Greg Mitchell.
A Memo to the Next President: Think Globally
The next U.S. administration needs to make the alleviation of global poverty a top priority.
The Quagmire in Iraq
Facts and figures on the mounting human and fiscal costs of the Iraq War to the United States and Iraq.
Adolescent Tantrum
One year ago, our greatest fear was that the president, still unable to master his hormones, would try to go mano a mano with Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Foreign Occupation
This week at FPIF, we debut our new strategic focus on the global U.S. military footprint – and how to shrink it.
Global Focus: U.S. Foreign Policy at the Turn of the Millennium
A penetrating critique of current U.S. foreign policy through a series of original essays by leading progressive scholars.