Foreign Policy

IMF chief Christine Lagarde endorsed use of negative interest rates, a radical idea most thought was impossible.

We binge-watched Washington’s favorite political thriller -- and its plotlines from Russia to the campaign trail -- so you don’t have to (though you probably will).

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Tel Aviv will host Israel's first transgender beauty pageant.

As of today, Turkey's largest-circulation newspaper — long a government critic — is no more.

Former Brazilian President Lula da Silva was briefly questioned by police Friday. Here's how he may factor into the Petrobras scandal.

Can we trust Trump's latest reversal?

Donald Trump has changed course on his widely-condemned promise to bring back torture and kill families of terrorists.

Trump has tapped a powerful vein of nationalist isolationism. A President Hillary Clinton would have a hard time persuading Americans that global leadership still matters.

To protect the Constitution under a Trump presidency, the U.S. military must refuse any orders to torture.

Ted Cruz is cashing in on Marco Rubio's yoga joke by selling yoga mats.

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Washington was also trying to protect Tunisia — and help keep the Arab Spring’s only success story from going off the rails.

The fracturing of Afghanistan’s body politic looms. Can anyone stop it?

Two unnamed complainants asked a German court to reverse a ban on animal sex. The court threw out the claim.

A court order compelling Apple to help the FBI unlock one of its phones has sparked a heated debate over privacy and national security.

These obscure Kurdish fighters just took responsibility for the this week's Ankara bombing.

Once dismissed as an out-of-touch technocrat, Alain Juppé has reinvented himself as France's voice of moderation — and the French love him for it.

Turkish authorities have released Rami Jarrah, a Syrian journalist based in Gaziantep, but have not yet provided a reason for his arrest.

Wrong movie, wrong focus group, wrong century.