Foreign Policy

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.

Britain’s vote to leave the EU was many years in the making.

U.S. foreign policy has exacerbated many of the evils it set out to eradicate. It needs an overhaul.

The United States needs a policy that unifies its allies in curbing Tehran.

U.S. policy in the Middle East is being guided by Trump's doctrine of incoherent chaos. And it's only getting worse.

The unarmed protests at the Gaza-Israel border are a desperate bid to provoke a crisis.

The Jobbik party, once known for its overt racism and anti-Semitism, is trying to reinvent itself as the responsible voice of the center.

But Trump isn’t commenting.

From buying influence at American universities to forcing Chinese nationals to return home, Beijing is expanding its political operations abroad.

The U.S. president has strong personal reasons to remain in the Russian leader’s good graces.

Turkey’s intervention in Syria is correcting for America’s flaws and laying the groundwork for a sustainable peace.