Foreign Policy

The strange nature of living in a tax haven, where 26 percent GDP growth is accompanied by austerity and a homelessness crisis.

The president's Asia legacy is not worst in recent history. But it's not the best either.

This week's large and peaceful protest in Venezuela shows that the momentum is finally behind the chavista government's opponents.

The Obama administration wanted a big show in New York to ink Colombia's peace deal. But the Justice Department balked at letting terrorists and drug dealers into the country.

Uzbekistan’s dictator is dead, but his brutal efforts to crush Islamist extremism leave a long and ugly legacy. And Washington will be left cleaning up the mess.

An unidentified hacker compromised the email of a Bill Clinton staffer.

The best stories from around the world.

Conciliation, contradiction, reality checks, and why they matter — or don’t — for 2016.

Whether it’s an Arab Spring-style uprising that gets him or simply old age — Zimbabwe’s firebrand autocrat is on his way out.

Hopes for a brighter future will be more realistic if the captain can run an effective ship of state.

Elites can overturn Islamophobic laws, but the public's illiberalism isn't going anywhere.

A damaging leak of data on India’s new submarine highlights how undersea warfare is at the heart of a regional contest for naval supremacy.

Russia poisons its enemies, Germany’s obsessed with fiscal responsibility, and America’s addicted to spreading democracy. A list of policies governments ought to kick.

The U.S. economy needs cash to fund job creation and raise stagnant wages. Calling it "helicopter money" is just counterproductive.

South Sudan's peacekeepers not only failed to protect civilians during the country's latest round of violence — it put them in even greater danger.

There’s really only one way North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un could celebrate a successful missile launch: with fireworks and a coordinated dance party, of course.

The best stories from around the world.

Germany is inching ever closer to France's ban on burqas.

The reversal on burkini bans began on Friday when a French court suspended the ban in one tourist town.

Best Defense is in summer reruns. Here is an item that originally ran on June 27, 2016.