Foreign Policy

The most effective plan against the Islamic Republic has always been the most obvious—and the one nobody in Washington seems willing to try.

A raft of new multibillion-dollar deals announced by Xi Jinping worry Washington and New Delhi.

There’s a limit to what any one company can do when it operates within a system in which oil, gas, and even coal use are still rising.

The new materials reveal how Beijing’s internment of Uighur Muslims actually works—and who is complicit.

Right-wing media has seized on the testimony of a Canadian businessman with a tangled history.

New arrivals are ticking up again, but Europe doesn’t even have a short-term plan in place—much less a long-term strategy.

Georgians fear that billionaire leader Bidzina Ivanishvili and his Georgian Dream party are tightening their grip on power.

Resistance to Chinese technology is growing in Germany—and the ripple effects could reach across the continent.

As Hezbollah sides with Lebanon's political elite, protesters in Beirut are increasingly willing to criticize it.

Claims of political contagion are establishment fantasies.

Virulent ethnic nationalism and hateful rhetoric toward minorities might win votes, but it will lead the country to economic ruin.

Voters want to close borders. Activists want to open them.

Repatriating refugees to dangerous countries violates international law and breeds conflict, instability, and future crises. Regional work visas and long-term integration into host countries are more promising solutions.

China and the United States both increased emissions last year; a U.N. report shows 1.5 percent growth in emissions per year since 2009.

Be grateful for Greta Thunberg, Emmanuel Macron—and the fact that things aren’t as bad as they could be.

Like with the oil sector in the 2000s, Moscow wants to nationalize the tech sector. But it is finding that its old strategies don’t work.

2019 could end with a deceleration in overall carbon emissions.

“Why would you want to put the fox in charge of the henhouse?” says one American expert.

New rules force companies to give up their privacy and steer clear of social networks and Wi-Fi if they want their internet back. Regular citizens still have no access, 113 days into a digital blackout.

Spencer’s ouster followed months of tensions with the White House over cost overruns and other issues.