Tag: United States

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the 75th anniversary NATO summit, the United Kingdom ending its Rwanda deportation policy, and a defense pact between Japan and the ...

In the first half of the 20th century, there was a strange, quixotic paradox at the heart of the Communist Party of the United States. On the one hand, the ...

As the war in Ukraine trudges on, the Pentagon no longer has to worry too much about Russia’s ability to compete militarily with the United States. Moscow’s new pact with ...

In 1971, the actor Donald Sutherland participated in one of the most powerful, least-known political movements of the era: the GI movement to end the Vietnam War. Sutherland wasn’t a ...

Benjamin Franklin was America’s first diplomat and undoubtedly its best. Yes, there have been other stalwarts, such as George Kennan and Richard Holbrooke (a former editor of this magazine). But ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The third installment of the Doha process underscores a conundrum about engagement with the Taliban, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

Among the many disruptive economic policies former U.S. President Donald Trump is promising to pursue if he returns to the White House next year—a list that includes massive tax increases ...

As Europe was waking up to news of U.S. President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last week, one top Eastern European diplomat made an oblique historical reference.  “It’s important to ...

Since Chinese President Xi Jinping removed presidential term limits in 2018, foreign commentators have warned of the perils that would sooner or later come about due to something they have ...

NATO has turned 75. When its leaders meet in Washington in July, they will celebrate the fact that it has endured so long. But an alliance needs to do more ...