Tag: United States

One of the most familiar quips of American politics was coined by John Nance Garner, the Texan who served as vice president under President Franklin Roosevelt from 1933 to 1941. ...

Last week, federal prosecutors launched a bombshell indictment against sitting New York City Mayor Eric Adams. Among a range of charges, Adams is accused of covertly funneling foreign funding, primarily ...

It is increasingly probable that the next U.S. presidential term could see the development of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). If that happens, everything will change, and generative AI—the artificial intelligence ...

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. It’s day three of the high-level week here at the United Nations, and everything is still gridlocked, from the traffic outside to the ...

This month, Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged more than $29 billion in new lending commitments at the triennial Forum on China-Africa Cooperation. Washington has once again misunderstood this as a symbol of Chinese economic ...

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris is attempting to join a select cohort of Americans who served as senators before going on to become president of the United States. Beginning with ...

Nate Silver’s first book, The Signal and the Noise, was published in 2012, at the peak of his career as America’s favorite election forecaster. The book was a 534-page bestseller. ...

The U.S. presidential election is less than 50 days away, and this week served up some grim reminders of how high the stakes are—and how intent Washington’s adversaries are on ...

The United States’ U.N. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield struck an aggressive blow against the rules-based international order at a Council on Foreign Relations talk last week. In response to my question ...

During the first half of the 1980s, in the early days of the HIV pandemic, one ethnic group in the United States faced particularly inhumane and biased treatment. Haitian immigrants, ...