Foreign Policy in Focus

Ferguson put the U.S.’ racial apartheid on the global stage.

Warnings about the human and environmental costs of “free trade” went unheeded. Now the most vulnerable Central Americans are paying the price.

An anonymous U.S. official caused a dustup when he called the Israeli prime minister “chickensh*t.” Others might have said worse.

South Korean activists are using balloons to send political and religious propaganda across the DMZ. They’re also endangering Koreans on both sides of the border.

Has the Internet and social media primed us to worry too much about improbable threats — and too little about probable ones?

As more European governments line up to recognize a Palestinian state, Israel (and the U.S.) look more isolated than ever.

The Obama administration’s war plans in Iraq and Syria are illegal, ill-conceived, and destined to fail. Here’s what the U.S.—and you—can do instead.

Obama is more than willing to stand up against the Islamic State. Too bad he wasn’t willing to stand up to his hawkish critics.

With more of us crowding a warming planet, we need agricultural change.

Hundreds of protesters recently gathered at the World Bank to shame a gold mining firm’s shakedown of one of Central America’s poorest countries.

Vladimir Putin is not reviving the Cold War. Rather, the U.S. failed to end it when it had the chance.

Israel believes it can bomb Gazans into changing their interests. How long will Obama support this delusion?

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.

Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars are holding the U.S. government accountable for innocent victims on all sides of the fighting.

Emira Woods speaks on the significance of Nelson Mandela’s passing on CCTV America: “The spirit of Mandela lives on, a spirit that continues to fight for justice.”

The Institute for Policy Studies Mourns and Celebrates Nelson Mandela, Revolutionary Freedom Fighter

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.