Foreign Policy in Focus

The party’s assault on “globalists” and “cosmopolitans” pushes against internationalism when it’s needed most.

Is China or the Green New Deal the Answer to Climate Change?

A year after the Supreme Court ruling upholding it, advocates have lined up legislation and presidential candidates behind undoing one of Trump’s signature abuses.

As hard Brexiteer Boris Johnson takes over, Labour is finally coming down on the side of Remain. Will it be too late?

Trump’s war on immigrants recalls the absurdity of Stalin’s purges — and a few of his supporters, at least, are starting to notice.

If a war breaks out, it won’t be because the Trump administration “bumbled” into one.

Trump and Kim getting along is better than the alternative, but there’s no denying troubling similarities in the two men’s political styles.

Don’t expect Trump to do a North Korean-style pivot in his relations with Iran.

Trump is the only one who can talk himself out of war with Iran.

Deepfake technology undermines any hope of once again conducting national conversations on the basis of observable reality.

Democracy faces a global crisis. And this crisis couldn’t be coming at a worse time.

For Donald Trump, tariffs are a substitute for diplomacy, just as harassment in his personal life is a substitute for normal human interaction

Whether authorities classify an act as “terrorist” depends almost entirely on who carries it out, not what they did.

The Modi government’s far-right bigotry is well-known, but its equally disturbing environmental record isn’t.

Viktor Orban, Mario Salvini, Heinz-Christian Strache, Marine Le Pen. Oh, yes, and Trump too.

Trump’s recent moves encouraging war crimes rather than prosecuting them do a disservice to service members.

The only upside to Bolton’s dangerous aggression toward Iran is that it may put him too far out in front of Trump.

The rise of the populist right is like climate change — a profound transformation of the political landscape, not just a temporary oscillation in the political temperature.

At a time of declining faith in democracy, the institution of royalty is looking surprisingly resilient.

With Trump and Bolton at the helm, the international arms control regime is effectively dead. But could that spark a new movement for disarmament?