Foreign Policy

Tepid reforms and halfhearted concessions won't save the country's authoritarian government from its existential crisis.

The GOP's absence from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's report on Russian interference is sad and abnormal.

Edward Lansdale’s most successful covert operations may have been crafting his own reputation.

The militant group is on the run, but that doesn’t mean it won’t be back.

There’s no reason to start a devastating war when nonmilitary options are working.

An Islamic Republic divided against itself cannot stand.

Conspicuously absent from the report, however, is Republican buy-in.

A selective approach to human rights is even more harmful than “America first.”

Trump doesn’t understand how armed diplomacy works.

Pyongyang's and Seoul’s leaders have shown they can build political capital. Now they have to spend it.

America’s military is the only institution that can break the partisan deadlock on the worst threat the nation faces.

The chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee should use his last year in office to reverse the unprincipled silence and moral weakness of Republicans in Congress.

North and South Korea have revived their dormant direct line. That’s good news for the rest of the world.

Last year, Trump corroded U.S. foreign policy, but avoided disaster. This year, there are powerful reasons to think that matters will worsen.

If the EU really wants to punish Poland, it should turn up the pressure on Hungary.

Destroying Pyongyang’s nuclear arsenal is still in America’s national interest.

The government is pushing people out of rural squalor — and into urban dependence.

As the United States stands back, the Saudis and even the U.N. special envoy are now open to a greater Russian diplomatic role in shaping the future of Syria.

The United States threatens to pull the plug on hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the Palestinians.

Under Trump, the international trade regime is at risk. This year could see it topple.