Afghanistan Can’t Handle Another Refugee Crisis
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Afghanistan grapples with a refugee crisis as Iran rapidly expels tens of thousands of people, a Bangladeshi Air Force plane ...
Tag: Migration and Immigration
Trump’s Deportations Spark Anger Across Africa
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Africans express outrage over the Trump administration’s deportation of migrants to Eswatini, the European Union imposes a fourth round of ...
How Lyndon Johnson Moved the Nation Forward on Immigration
Sixty years ago, the president of the United States, Lyndon Baines Johnson, championed the value of immigration to the United States. When the president signed the Immigration and Nationality Act ...
How to Lose Friends and Alienate Partners
When the Taliban swept back into power in August 2021, Afghanistan’s elite special operations forces were among the last holdouts. These were the final defenders, holding ground against daily Taliban ...
France and U.K. Sign Key Deals on Migration, Nuclear Weapons
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at France and Britain’s migration and nuclear weapons deals, U.S. tariff threats against Brazil, and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit ...
Trump Appears to Move off Regime Change Approach to Cuba
Ever since the MAGA movement engulfed the U.S. Republican Party, it has harbored two competing foreign-policy tendencies—a muscular internationalism and a neo-isolationist reluctance to intervene. That tension has played out ...
Israel Is Sowing Chaos to Secure Displacement in Gaza
Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, “We’re working with the United States very closely” to find countries that will “give the ...
The Human Rights Presidency
In historical perspective, it is a new thing for U.S. presidents to say they are shaping foreign policy with human rights in mind. Jimmy Carter redefined the presidency in this ...
The Forgotten Stories of the Chinese in America
Just hours into his second term, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order stating that children born in the United States would no longer be automatically granted citizenship if ...
Trump Braces for Expanded Anti-ICE Protests Across the U.S.
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at anti-ICE protests spreading across the United States, votes of confidence in the Polish and Israeli parliaments, and rioting in Northern Ireland. ...
