Tag: United States

Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump rechristened the Department of Defense as the War Department. To drive the point home, the White House X account shared an image of the ...

One would think, three and a half years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, that the West could come up with a way to choke off Russia’s energy exports, still the ...

The summer of 2025 has been difficult for many residents of Washington, D.C. As the city faces a $1.1 billion budget hole that was created by the Republicans in the ...

Last week, the Trump administration proudly posted footage of the U.S. military carrying out the apparent extrajudicial execution of 11 unidentified men on a boat in the Caribbean. At the ...

The first week of March featured a moment of dark political comedy worthy of Veep creator Armando Iannucci. In a scene that felt scripted for satire, the United States became ...

United Nations summits typically unfold with a feverish intensity. Official delegates battle over every verb, dollar figure, and timeline in the outcome document. But there was little drama of multilateralism ...

This year, the winners of the men’s and women’s singles at the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York will each win $5 million—a 39 percent increase from the prize ...

The Cold War is historically anomalous. It was awkwardly long, with no clear origin or conclusion. It was awkwardly vast, more genuinely a world war than either of the two ...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s chaotic agenda is taking a growing toll on American farmers, many of whom backed his return to office but are increasingly feeling the pressures of his ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where one of your co-authors spent the long weekend scuba diving in Aruba, off the coast of Venezuela, blissfully unaware of what was ...