Foreign Policy

The Russian president has sown confusion and conflict around the world the past two years. But his short-sighted meddling isn’t the work of a mastermind.

“You didn’t see me whining after I lost the rigged 1960 election, did you?” asks the ghost of the 37th president.

Thai mourners are gathering to say goodbye to their king. But they're also leaving behind piles of trash.

The final battles of the fight for the White House, from swing state Nevada to Trump's hotel in Washington, from the Iran deal to intervention in Syria.

Goldman says data doesn't support Trump's claim that he can pull off an upset like Britain's decision to leave the EU.

With three African countries giving notice that they intend to abandon the ICC, a coordinated exodus might soon be coming.

From Florida resorts to Washington hotels, Trump’s focus on his businesses in the election’s crucial final weeks signals he’s already looking beyond Nov. 8.

The United States has dramatically stepped up attacks on the caliphate’s oil production. But to win this battle, it’s going to have to go scorched earth.

One of the key problems of innovation, James Gleick notes in The Information, is that new things tend to be seen too much in the context of the old.

I read the new book, War Virgin, to see where fact separated from fiction.

With the Philippine president ditching Washington for Beijing, the contest to control the South China Sea just got a lot more complicated.

The only way to solve Yemen's war, and beat back its al-Qaeda franchise, is to dissolve the country entirely.

Contractor Harold Martin is accused of lifting as many as 500 million pages of classified and top-secret material from Ft. Meade, and will be charged under the Espionage Act.

Pentagon officials insist that American forces remain behind the front lines near Mosul, but Thursday’s death calls that into question.

And anyway, we’ve survived far more serious threats than this loathsome joker in the past.

Mexican clowns complain they are being mistreated because impostors are using their costumes for crime.

Russian puppets, 'bad hombres,' and Trump only accepting the election results if he wins: 2016's last debate and more.

The Iraqi Army’s push to retake the northern city could trigger a vast humanitarian crisis and fuel the country’s deep sectarian divide.

Not all of them think a pardon is enough.

But if they hope to defeat the Islamic State, they’re going to have to learn to work with some new allies.