Tag: U.S. Foreign Policy

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 ...

One month has passed since U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the virtual demolition of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which oversees congressionally funded but ...

The Trump administration has only just begun to fill its ranks with the political appointees who will flesh out the future of U.S. defense policy. One item sure to be ...

As I watched the recent video of federal agents descending on Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University Ph.D. student and Turkish national, I thought of Wai-Hing Tso—the first Chinese student to ...