How Many Peace Deals Has Trump Actually Brokered?
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we’re lamenting the end of summer but looking forward to the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level week in New York City next month, ...
Tag: North America
The Risks of the Trump-Putin Summit
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday to discuss a possible cease-fire in Ukraine. There is a great deal of ...
No Need for Hoarding
Remember the COVID-19-era shortages? Store shelves were stripped of toilet paper. Face masks were rationed. A global scarcity of semiconductors forced automakers and others to curtail production. Ford stashed unfinished Super ...
Trump’s State Department Reforms Are Necessary
In July, the Trump administration enacted the most sweeping reorganization of the U.S. State Department in a generation, and the reaction from the mainstream media was overwhelmingly negative. But the ...
Pharaohs, Maharajas, and the Making of a Multipolar World
As the era of U.S. primacy comes to an end, academics and policymakers have quite naturally been debating what comes next. Will the emergence of a multipolar world prove inherently ...
The U.S. Can No Longer Stave Off Competition From China
Over the past two decades, a distinctive kind of color-coded map has become a staple of economic journalism. These maps were designed to show the leading commercial partner of countries ...
When the Threat Is Inside the White House
If our nation’s spies are the infantry of our ideology, as John Le Carré once observed, Tom Sylvester is an unknown soldier who became a four-star general. Two years ago, ...
Third Parties in America Usually Fail. Can Elon Musk Change That?
The on-again, off-again feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk is on again—and the world’s richest man has kicked things into overdrive. Musk announced over the weekend ...
Energy Security Means Using Less Oil
Following his strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities, U.S. President Donald Trump turned to social media to express his deep worries about oil prices, which had spiked by roughly 20 percent ...
Has Trump Brought Authoritarianism to the U.S.?
Last week, California Gov. Gavin Newsom accused U.S. President Donald Trump of behaving like a dictator after he deployed federal troops to Los Angeles to quell protests against immigration raids. ...
