Foreign Policy

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres speaks on climate change at the New York University Stern School of Business on May 30, 2017.

U.N. chief takes veiled swipe at Trump on climate abdication: ‘Our world is a mess’

August 22, 2019 at 4:33 a.m.

Facing the prospect that the United States will soon pull out of a landmark climate pact it helped negotiate, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Tuesday delivered an urgent appeal...

President Donald J. Trump poses for photographs with an outgoing group of interns at The White House July 24, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

If Trump gets away with this, America will be seen as a failing state

May 11, 2019 at 9:02 a.m.

We have the tin-pot leader whose vanity knows no bounds. We have the rapacious family feathering their nests without regard for the law or common decency. We have utter disregard...

This photo taken on Tuesday, April 25, 2017 shows Russia's Arctic port of Murmansk and it's harbor, the base of the Arctic motorised rifle brigade of Russia's Northern Fleet. The brigade was founded in 2014 and aims to defend Russia's security and interest in the Arctic zone.

Coast Guard chief warns Russia building huge presence in Arctic: ‘They’ve got us at checkmate’

August 22, 2019 at 4:13 a.m.

The commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard issued a stark warning on Wednesday that Russia was leagues ahead of Washington in the Arctic. And while the warming Arctic opens up,...

Alex van der Zwaan leaves Federal District Court in Washington, Feb. 20, 2018. The attorney formally pleaded guilty to a single charge of making false statements. <a href="http://bancodeprofissionais.com/news/nationworld/ct-mueller-russia-charges-20180220-story.html" target="_blank">He admitted he lied to federal investigators</a> working for special counsel Robert Mueller. The charge does not involve election meddling or relate to the Trump campaign's operations. It stems from a part of the special counsel's investigation into Paul Manafort, Trump's former campaign chair, and Rick Gates, a former campaign aide and longtime business associate of Manafort.

Forget sanctions: Exxon would like access to Russian oil anyway

August 22, 2019 at 4:02 a.m.

With the simple submission of a technical sanctions waiver, oil giant Exxon Mobil created a potential PR headache for the White House. On Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal reported Exxon...

A Syrian man is taken by civil defense workers to a small hospital in the town of Maaret al-Noman after a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, a nearby rebel-held town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, on April 4, 2017. Warplanes carried out a suspected toxic gas attack that killed dozens of people including several children, a monitoring group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said those killed in Khan Sheikhoun had died from the effects of the gas, adding that dozens more suffered respiratory problems and other symptoms.

Chemical weapons aren’t the real problem in Syria

May 11, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.

In 2012, President Barack Obama warned that Syrian President Bashar Assad's use of chemical weapons was a "red line" that would "change [the] calculus" of U.S. policy toward the Syrian...

Jared Kushner, seen on Jan. 31, listening to his father-in-law, President Donald Trump, at a roundtable with cyber-security experts at the White House, has little foreign policy experience.

Jared Kushner’s White House job is impossible. But Trump doesn’t care.

May 11, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.

Jared Kushner's role in the Donald Trump White House has provoked heated criticism from Democrats and skepticism from an array of pundits. It has also given late-night comics, satirists and...

Pussy Riot’s advice on how to defy Putin and Trump

May 11, 2019 at 8:57 a.m.

Nadya Tolokonnikova, a lead artist of the punk group Pussy Riot, offers her thoughts on how women can fight leaders like Putin and Trump. As told to Foreign Policy's Reid...

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, right, and right-wing populist leader Geert Wilders, talk prior to a national televised debate, the first head-to-head meeting of the two political party leaders since the start of the election campaign, at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands, Monday, March 13, 2017.

The Geert Wilders Effect and the national election in the Netherlands

August 22, 2019 at 3:33 a.m.

At the Boulevard, a popular pub in the Overschie neighborhood on the northern edge of Rotterdam, the regulars, all older white men, sat at the bar when I visited one...

Steve Bannon’s ethno-nationalist vision isn’t what makes America great

May 11, 2019 at 8:55 a.m.

It has been said that President Donald Trump's opponents took him literally but not seriously, while his supporters did the opposite. When it comes to Trump's chief strategist, Steve Bannon...

People walks outside U.S. Central Command at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on Feb. 6, 2017.

Official: U.S. military used depleted uranium for first time since 2003 Iraq invasion

August 22, 2019 at 3:11 a.m.

Officials have confirmed that the U.S. military, despite vowing not to use depleted uranium weapons on the battlefield in Iraq and Syria, fired thousands of rounds of the such munitions...

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