Cheap Mass Testing Is Vital for Pandemic Victory Switching from expensive, slow PCR tests to self-administered antigen tests could work wonders. Foreign Policy · Jan 5, 2021
Trump’s Final Foreign-Policy Report Card A look back at four years of big ambitions, a handful of successes—and many more failures. Foreign Policy · Jan 5, 2021
Defense Secretaries Worried About a Trump Power Grab Talk of Trump imposing martial law helped spur the ex-Pentagon chiefs to speak out. Foreign Policy · Jan 4, 2021
New House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Vows Pompeo Investigations Will Continue Rep. Gregory Meeks, who took the gavel this week, also urged the State Department to reverse its decision to close the last two U.S. consulates… Foreign Policy · Jan 4, 2021
Technology Can Be the Foundation of a Renewed U.S.-French Alliance Macron has prioritized a digital future. America can benefit. Foreign Policy · Jan 4, 2021
Forget a Fracking Ban The key to greening the energy industry is getting better at pinpointing which natural gas firms and states are acting responsibly—and which aren’t. Foreign Policy · Jan 4, 2021
Flawed Cybersecurity Is a Ticking Time Bomb for the Balkans Cyberattacks in North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey reveal that government defenses are weak—and many NATO members are at risk. Foreign Policy · Jan 4, 2021
Rescinding the Global Gag Rule Isn’t Enough If U.S. President-elect Joe Biden wants to champion gender equality and reproductive rights, he can’t just roll back Trump-era policies. Foreign Policy · Jan 4, 2021
China Is an Economic Bully—and Weaker Than It Looks The world doesn’t have to put up with Beijing’s attempts at economic coercion. Foreign Policy · Jan 4, 2021
Spain’s Military Has No Time for Democracy Retired officers nostalgic for the Franco dictatorship are denouncing the country’s elected government. King Felipe should condemn these anti-democratic forces just as his father did… Foreign Policy · Jan 4, 2021
The World After the Coronavirus We asked 12 leading thinkers to predict what happens in 2021 and beyond. Foreign Policy · Jan 2, 2021
Why China Is Winning Against India The military standoff in the Himalayas is often seen as a stalemate between two nuclear powers. But New Delhi cannot afford the status quo. Foreign Policy · Jan 1, 2021
At State Department, Some Concerned That Political Appointees Are Jumping the Line to Get COVID-19 Vaccine Lack of communication over surplus doses has prompted suspicion and anger. Foreign Policy · Dec 31, 2020
Anti-Balloon Launching Laws Are No Threat to South Korean Democracy Pundits behave as if only North Korea matters in Seoul’s politics. Foreign Policy · Dec 31, 2020
Foreign Policy · Dec 31, 2020 Macron Wants a French Empire Built on Language Can France’s president redeem a language of colonialism to project global power today?
Foreign Policy · Dec 31, 2020 What Merkel Really Thinks About China—and the World Europe’s year-end investment deal with Beijing is a clear window into the German chancellor’s foreign-policy worldview.
Foreign Policy · Dec 30, 2020 The Great Game With China Is 3D Chess Washington’s new rivalry with Beijing isn’t a reprise of the Cold War. It’s much more complicated.
Foreign Policy · Dec 30, 2020 Checking In on Mexico’s Feminist Foreign Policy Almost one year in, an ambitious set of norms has had mixed results.
Foreign Policy · Dec 30, 2020 Beijing’s Hong Kong Fables Have Unhappy Endings Old narratives about the city fell apart this year, but new ones can still be born.
Foreign Policy · Dec 30, 2020 America’s Asian Allies Need Their Own Nukes Want to cut costs and contain China? Allow friendly nuclear proliferation.
Foreign Policy · Dec 29, 2020 Washington Still Wants China to Be a Responsible Stakeholder Despite heated language, the U.S. goals haven’t changed.
Foreign Policy · Dec 29, 2020 The Quiet and Dangerous Way U.S. Politics Is Becoming Europeanized Americans are aware that Democrats and Republicans have become polarized—but they’ve misunderstood how.
Foreign Policy · Dec 29, 2020 Will Virus Mutations Threaten COVID-19 Vaccines? We don't yet know whether new variants of the coronavirus may impede vaccines’ efficacy. But they shouldn’t change anything about our approach to public health.
Foreign Policy · Dec 29, 2020 It's Time to Use Eminent Domain on the Coronavirus Vaccines Respecting drug companies’ intellectual property rights during a pandemic doesn’t make medical, or economic, sense.
Foreign Policy · Dec 28, 2020 For Beijing and New Delhi, 2020 Was the Point of No Return After decades of uneasy ties, China can no longer deny that India is a real threat.