Tag: United States

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 ...

U.S. President Donald Trump maintains a hostile relationship with expertise. His disdain has been on full display as he dismissed warnings from a majority of economists about implementing widespread tariffs. ...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio isn’t just worried about a recession in the United States, he told “Meet the Press” host Kristen Welker Sunday, he’s worried about “something worse ...

It is rare that we can watch the unfolding of a global economic downturn with such precision as we can today. With a 145 percent U.S. tariff on China and ...

Emboldened by Columbia University’s recent capitulation to a series of sweeping government demands, U.S. President Donald Trump is weaponizing vast sums of federal funding against a growing number of universities.  ...

Since U.S. President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on countries around the world, the United States has experienced a stock market crash, a bond market crash, a blizzard ...

Foreign policy isn’t usually a decisive factor in Ecuador’s elections. But as the country heads into Sunday’s razor-edge presidential runoff, Renato Rivera, the director of the Ecuadorian Observatory of Organized ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we are taking inspiration from the Japanese town that assembled a 3D-printed train station in six hours—before the day’s first train arrived ...

Not long after China’s leader, Xi Jinping, rose to power in 2012, close observers grew puzzled at how readily he squandered many of the advantages that the country had accumulated ...

In the last two months, more than 50,000 U.S. government employees have been fired, put on leave, or told to halt work—most of them by the writ of billionaire Elon ...