Foreign Policy

Leftists want to celebrate revolutionary idealism; conservatives, the triumph of traditional authority. And Emmanuel Macron is trying to split the difference.

It’s a strategy to tighten ideological control. And it’s happening around the world.

Populists in both countries are deepening a rare military crisis between NATO allies.

The real problem with the Mexican presidential frontrunner isn’t his populism. It’s his old-fashioned ideas.

Administration officials defended their position, but lawmakers weren’t happy with their answers.

America finally has a president who grasps the basic logic of offshore balancing in the Middle East.

The country’s first non-Castro president in over 50 years has only one path to legitimacy.

A former senior Russian intelligence official has created an American tech firm that pays people to go places and film things.

Evidence of chemical weapons used to require a chain of custody. Now, open-source intelligence is often enough.

Online protest has scored a solid win for LGBT rights — for now.

Beijing is using commercial bridgeheads to give its warships staying power in the Indian Ocean.

There's only one way to accomplish all of America's goals in Syria: cooperating with Russia.

The Trump administration's latest missile strikes in Syria were never going to accomplish anything. But the show must go on.

South American conservatives have an unlikely new role model.

Airstrikes against Syria may galvanize support against the United States.

But he needs a more coherent strategy in the Middle East.

The United States is pursuing a worst-of-both-worlds mix of hawkish confrontation and strategic retrenchment.

The United States has no intention of using its firepower to halt the mass killing of civilians through conventional means, degrade Syria’s military forces, or to challenge Russia and Iran’s military positions is Syria.

U.S. is “locked and loaded” for more strikes, but only if Assad uses chemical weapons.

Trump’s latest airstrikes are a new U.S.-Russian missile crisis that risks devastating escalation.