How to Do Diversity Reforms Right Decades of attempts to remodel the State Department haven’t worked—here’s why and how to do better this time. Foreign Policy · Feb 22, 2021
The U.S.-Japan Alliance Should Pivot to China’s Human Rights Issues Washington and Tokyo need a sharp focus in a challenging era. Foreign Policy · Feb 22, 2021
Russian Pipeline Project Tests Biden’s Relations With Russia, Germany—and Congress Torn between mending ties with Germany or Republicans in Congress, the Biden administration takes a softer line on Nord Stream 2 than some lawmakers expected. Foreign Policy · Feb 22, 2021
The Middle East’s Progressive Darling Abuses Its Women What the harrowing saga of a Dubai princess reveals about her country’s international reputation. Foreign Policy · Feb 22, 2021
Patriotic Blockbusters Mean Big Box Office For Chinese Filmmakers Censors have deliberately created a market ripe for propaganda. Foreign Policy · Feb 22, 2021
Hunger Is a Weapon of War. Food Can Help Prevent It. As the ongoing conflict in Yemen shows, it’s time to fight starvation not only on humanitarian grounds but as an essential component of military and… Foreign Policy · Feb 22, 2021
America Needs a Supercharged Space Program It could build entire industries, create new jobs, green the economy—and unite the country behind a common purpose. Foreign Policy · Feb 22, 2021
In the Middle East, War Is Going Digital And that should scare everyone. Foreign Policy · Feb 22, 2021
A World Without War A new book argues that America’s massive military is predicated on imaginary threats—and we’d all be better off without it. Foreign Policy · Feb 21, 2021
The Rolling Tragedy of ‘Missing in Brooks County’ A new documentary reveals the human cost of a decadeslong deterrence policy at the southern U.S. border. Will President Biden do anything about it? Foreign Policy · Feb 21, 2021
Germany’s Holocaust Remembrance Is Turning Upside Down The left is relativizing the past, the far-right is insisting on its uniqueness, and the country’s historical culture is cracking from within. Foreign Policy · Feb 20, 2021
Why Facebook Is Right to Pull the Plug on Australia This isn’t about regulating Big Tech. It’s about fleecing foreigners for news that Australians no longer want to pay for. Foreign Policy · Feb 20, 2021
Countries Are Ramping Up Vaccinations. What About Refugees? With millions stranded in camps with limited access to shots, there’s a big problem looming in the world’s quest to quash COVID-19. Foreign Policy · Feb 19, 2021
What Biden and Putin Can Agree On Both sides should take the long view if they are ever to reconcile. Foreign Policy · Feb 19, 2021
Foreign Policy · Feb 19, 2021 Internet Shutdowns Leave Indians Struggling With Everyday Life Cutting cables has become the Modi government’s favorite tool.
Foreign Policy · Feb 19, 2021 Washington Is Under Siege. American Democracy Isn’t. The enhanced security measures in the U.S. capital have triggered a debate over openness, security, and democracy. But the country’s democracy isn’t dead yet.
Foreign Policy · Feb 19, 2021 In Latin America, U.S. Popularity Is Already Bouncing Back Trump has been all but forgotten as the region looks to cooperate with Biden.
Foreign Policy · Feb 19, 2021 Italians Take Aim at the Bureaucratic Bourgeoisie Largely protected from furloughs and layoffs, public employees in Italy have become the scapegoat for an economic crisis that politicians must address.
Foreign Policy · Feb 19, 2021 State Department Lawyers Concluded Insufficient Evidence to Prove Genocide in China Despite the Trump administration’s declaration of a genocide in Xinjiang, upheld by the Biden administration, some legal experts suspect China’s behavior may fall short of…
Foreign Policy · Feb 19, 2021 Mark Rutte's Legacy of Failure—and Winning The Dutch—like Americans and other Europeans—want a government that works. What they have is a system that’s stuck.
Foreign Policy · Feb 19, 2021 Biden Should End U.S. Hypocrisy on Israeli Nukes For decades, U.S. presidents have pledged not to talk about Israel’s nuclear arsenal despite pushing for nonproliferation in the region. It’s time for Washington to…
Foreign Policy · Feb 18, 2021 Signaling a New Willingness to Talk, Biden Scrambles to Save Iran Nuclear Deal The new administration is looking for an interim road map—but insists it won’t be pressured by Tehran’s deadline to halt inspections next week.
Foreign Policy · Feb 18, 2021 Trump Is Guilty of Pandemicide History will show the former U.S. president was staggeringly negligent during the pandemic’s deadly third wave.
Foreign Policy · Feb 18, 2021 America Is Back. But Can Allies Ever Trust It Again? Fears of another Trump make it even more urgent that allies work with Biden now.
Foreign Policy · Feb 18, 2021 How Civil Wars Start Three factors come into play, and the United States demonstrates all of them.