Foreign Policy

The abrupt end to the decades-old ‘wet foot, dry foot’ policy for Cubans has quiet support from Trump.

Obama’s historic normalization with Havana is under threat from Trump’s hardline cabal of Castro-haters.

Rome is trying to shape the future of its onetime colony, but may get elbowed aside by local strongmen and their foreign partners.

Trump has tapped the former New York mayor to lead a computer security advisory council.

The Exxon boss has shown before he can take Beijing to the limit — but as Secretary of State the stakes will be far higher.

Géronimo Guitérrez will represent a government that Trump believes has taken advantage of the United States.

That would bump Randy Forbes, a former Virginia lawmaker credited with helping form Trump’s navy plans.

Why left-leaning Germans are secretly -- and not so secretly -- planning to pull for Mutti.

While it’s only two cases so far, it’s a stark reminder of West Africa’s vulnerability to epidemics.

And aid groups accuse EU of inaction.

Perhaps the greatest risk is that bitter residue from this scuffle over a single (albeit significant) analytic assessment will deflect attention from the more serious intelligence policy questions that require the government’s attention.

The president-elect conceded Moscow hacked the U.S. election, but accused intelligence agencies of ‘Nazi’ tactics.

President Tsai Ing-Wen traveled to Central America to loosen China's grip on Taiwan. But will it work?

The oilman struggled to lend coherence to Trump’s foreign policy, but did reveal their differences on Russia, climate change, nukes and more.

It's the truth ... and we need the patience and rigor to get to it.

The Russian Orthodox Church believes corporal punishment can be "an essential right given by God." Soon it may be given by the Russian government.

The president-elect’s dangerous views on the safety of vaccines threaten the lives of millions of Americans.

2015 Global Thinker Hanya Yanagihara and writer Meghan O'Rourke debate the limits of pain, empathy, and romance.

Writers Meghan O'Rourke and Hanya Yanagihara explore death and grief in the Facebook age.

Moscow and Ankara have pivoted from foes to friends, and are now winning the war in Syria. Will Donald Trump join the party?