Foreign Policy

The national soccer team celebrated its strong World Cup showing alongside a singer who glorifies the country’s fascist past. But it shouldn’t have come as a surprise.

Ethnic nationalism is about more than just economic anxieties.

Trade is a complex global system. The White House has misidentified the problem—and created much bigger ones.

Negotiating with North Korea is a tricky game, and the United States is already behind.

On the podcast: When Israeli extremists plotted to blow up the Dome of the Rock.

Monday’s election is an opportunity for Washington to come down on the side of accountability and constitutional rule.

Trump doesn’t think the country is worth defending. Putin has already tried to destabilize it once—the West can’t let it happen again.

Francisco Franco ran Spain with an iron fist for decades—and created myths about his rule that are only now starting to come undone.

Cambodian dissidents come under cyberattack in run-up to sham election.

Politicians are exploiting a period of relative calm to gamble with the country’s future.

The shift is part of the Trump administration’s broader campaign to crack down on refugees and immigration.

A Houthi attack on two Saudi oil tankers near Yemen could be an Iranian bid to hammer a key energy choke point.

Whatever the U.S. president's intentions, his efforts to rock the foundation of international politics are hopeless.

An attack on one isn't really an attack on all and four other misunderstood facts about the Western defense alliance.

If you want to understand the tensions between policymakers and spooks under Donald Trump, look to the 1970s.

The secretary of state faces criticism, even from those in his own party.

Russia is more important than the United States in averting war between Israel and Syria.

A checkered democratic history, from 1947 to the present day.

Lawmakers preparing a must-pass defense bill stripped out harsh penalties against the Chinese telecommunications firm after the White House intervened.

The world thought it had fought the HIV virus to a stalemate—but its strategy was flawed in ways that are only now becoming clear.