Foreign Policy

It's hard to be powerful when nobody believes a word you say.

Merkel now talks of protecting Ukraine’s interests as Russia’s $12 billion gas pipeline seeks to bypass Kiev.

Not everyone fighting “fake news” is doing it for the right reasons.

Canada’s left is trying to tarnish Doug Ford’s image by branding him a racist. They’d be better off asking why so many minorities support him.

Blaming the Russians, or political opponents, only goes so far.

With or without the United States.

With little to show for last year’s missile attack, the Trump administration is contemplating a larger campaign against the Assad government.

Everything Trump does in Syria revolves around what’s good for Trump. And that’s bad for America.

For the first time in his career, Washington’s most belligerent foreign policy wonk is officially outside the bureaucratic box.

Viktor Orban may have won, but a narrow loss in the countryside suggests that corruption could one day be his undoing.

FP’s editor in chief on why our April issue focuses on human rights in the time of Trump

With crucial diplomatic positions vacant, the United States is losings its influence.

Will Trump once again strike Assad?

A new wave of historical dramas is telling the wrong stories about the country’s past.

What a long-lost magazine teaches us about demagoguery and our response to it.

Cape Town is running out of water. Israel offers some lessons on how to avoid that fate.

Family reunification for refugees is no longer a given. But keeping relatives apart hurts host countries as well as newcomers.

What Tunisia can teach its neighbors about the value of education.

Why #MeToo skipped Russia.

Other ethnic minorities will be Myanmar’s next victims.