Threats
If Trump Won’t Fight Climate Change, We Must — for the Troops’ Sake
As the Pentagon says, this ‘threat multiplier’ is making the work of our men and women in uniform around the world more difficult.
Ideas
The Trump Administration Is Making Good Policy
It’s the president himself who’s destroying it.
Threats
Trump’s Paris Decision Hurts More than the Climate
America’s withdrawal will leave the world hotter, more erratic, politically fractured, and facing toward Beijing.
Ideas
What Xi Jinping Wants
China's leader is determined to turn his country into 'the biggest player in the history of the world.' Can he do it while avoiding a dangerous collision with America?
Ideas
Foreign Leaders Have Realized Trump Is a Pushover
The president’s reported disclosure of classified information to Russia is only the latest example of the self-proclaimed great negotiator conceding to officials from overseas everything they want.
Threats
Rex Tillerson Spells Out US Foreign Policy
The Trump administration’s 'America First' agenda just became a little clearer.
Ideas
Who Is In Charge of US National Security?
The administration’s flip-flopping on North Korea is only the latest incident to raise this question.
Policy
The President Is Preventing the Foreign-Policy Debate America Needs To Have
He promised to do both more and less abroad, but his frequent reversals and missteps are derailing efforts to choose one path.
Threats
Rex Tillerson’s Russian Mission Impossible
The secretary of state is expected to use his visit to Moscow this week to demand Russia break with Assad. This is wishful thinking.
Ideas
America's Foreign-Policy Voice Is Fracturing. Trump’s Cuts Would Make Things Worse
The post-9/11 explosion in security-assistance funding has muddied the roles of diplomats and generals. A re-empowered State Department could help fix that.
Business
Lockheed to Move F-16 Production to South Carolina
The new, smaller line will better suit the dwindling orders for the venerable fighter jet, while freeing up space for F-35 production.
Ideas
Killing Free Trade Will Rob the World of a Highly Effective Deterrent to War
Trade agreements are rarely about economics alone.
Policy
Trump’s State Department Anxiously Awaits its Future
Shaken up and set adrift, a foreign-policy bureaucracy confronts the possibility of radical change.
Policy
The Foreign-Policy Establishment Defends Itself From Trump
'The question confronting us as a nation is as consequential as any we have faced since the late 1940s,' a group of Republican and Democratic experts write.
Ideas
We’re Ignoring the Best Bad Option for Syria
A frozen conflict would give the country space to begin rebuilding.
Ideas
There's No One At the Helm of White House Foreign Policy
Flynn’s departure won’t solve the Trump administration’s central dysfunction.
Ideas
Mapped: America's Collective Defense Agreements
The United States has agreements to come to the defense of more than 50 other nations.
Policy
Trump Has Made an Enemy Out of a Friend
The U.S. is not talking to Mexico, a neighbor, trade partner and trusted ally because of a campaign promise few took seriously.
Ideas
The Foreign Crises Awaiting Trump
Trump wants to undo the liberal international order the U.S. built and replace it with a 19th-century model of nationalism and mercantilism. Its unwinding cannot, and will not, be pretty.
Ideas