Before the 2024 U.S. election, some African leaders privately rooted for the transactional, business-friendly environment that they envisioned under U.S. President Donald Trump in a second term. They expected that ...
At the end of February, the Trump administration decided to exempt $397 million in security assistance to Pakistan from its massive foreign aid cuts. The funds will be allocated to ...
After U.S. President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office, is a foreign-policy doctrine coming into view? In the 19th century, the Monroe Doctrine warned European countries to keep out ...
Vladimir Lenin once noted that there are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen. By that standard, the first hundred days of Donald Trump’s presidency have comprised at ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The U.S.-China trade war puts other countries in a painful position, the death of Pope Francis jeopardizes a Chinese agreement with ...
Traditionally, secretaries of state have played a role of great prominence in U.S. administrations. Although they are only fourth in the presidential order of succession, these officials often outshine vice ...
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continued to steamroll the administrative state in recent weeks as Social Security became the latest target of billionaire Elon Musk’s rampage. Around the country, ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. Democratic Party efforts to return a wrongfully deported Maryland resident in El Salvador, the death of Pope Francis, and U.S.-India ...
Four Democratic U.S. lawmakers traveled to El Salvador on Monday to press for the release of wrongfully detained Maryland resident Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. Reps. Robert Garcia of California, Maxwell ...
In 1999, Pierre Poilievre, then a 20-year-old commerce student at the University of Calgary, pulled an all-nighter to enter a national essay contest with the prompt, “As prime minister, I ...
