Americas

Crime groups operate less like nations and more like banks.

Four former generals break down the risks of a U.S. attack.

Kyiv’s ambassador to Washington said a Ukrainian attack on Novorossiysk triggered the reprimand.

David Petraeus on the military options and intelligence likely being presented at the White House.

Rubio is wrong to cite it as the basis for the U.S. alliance with Europe.

Billions in approved spending held up by Office of Management and Budget.

Washington is putting pressure on Havana’s last lifeline.

The Supreme Court ruling has thrown the U.S. president’s tariff strategy and trade deals into chaos.

The Havana regime is used to managing bad times.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE hope to become artificial intelligence hubs.

The influential Pentagon official is narrowing choices available to U.S. allies.

Lawsuits to reinstate frozen foreign aid have been hampered by questions of standing, jurisdiction, and legal technicalities.

Illiberalism has been part of the national culture since the founding.

How tariffs, immigration crackdowns, and corruption have shaped the U.S.

But it’s unclear what happens to the tens of billions of dollars already taken from U.S. businesses.

Kurt Campbell: “The president clearly wants short-term deals.”

Recent glimpses of exotic directed-energy weapons raise a question: How will they change warfare?

Instead of making government work, Mamdani plans to tax and spend his way to affordability.

What the U.S. secretary of state laid bare about the Trump worldview.

Trump wants regime change but not the messy aftermath.

Brazil’s president hopes to cooperate on AI, critical minerals, and more.

The scale of the U.S. military buildup signals that strikes are likely.

A conversation with the authors of “The Great Heist” on Beijing’s spycraft—and what can be done about it.

We can’t turn back the clock on USAID. But we can decide what comes next.

The country may not have the workforce to power a minerals renaissance.

To understand Trump’s approach to the world, look at the leaders he resembles.

Middle powers need real institutions to resist superpower gravity.

Rafael Grossi, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog, says abandoning the idea of nonproliferation would be a “dramatic mistake.”

An inaugural meeting in Washington will focus on Gaza’s reconstruction.

Washington is leveraging its power to intimidate countries that are trying to protect the planet.

The AI models are American, but the food that feeds the beast is being enriched in India.

Trump’s approach has done damage to bilateral ties that won’t so easily be repaired.

The United States is conducting diplomacy by way of the "Law and Order" television show.

Now Trump has pushed a controversial element of presidential authority even further.

The chief U.S. diplomat put a friendlier spin on the Trump administration’s stern message to Europe.

The Pentagon’s top policymaker answers questions about the White House’s commitment to Europe’s security.

The Republican senator’s comments contradict U.S. President Donald Trump’s position on Russia.

In a widely anticipated speech at the Munich Security Conference, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described concerns about a shared “Western civilization” as reason for being “a little direct” with Europe.

Tens of thousands of people are being held in secret detention sites.

Europe is not tiptoeing around Trump anymore. 

AI investment is soaring, but returns remain uncertain.

FP’s all-star panel at the Munich Security Conference.

What is at stake today is not whether democracy can spread but whether it can survive at all.

What if elections aren’t the be-all and end-all?

What Jeff Bezos’s actions signal to news outlets around the world.

Washington wants political change in Havana. Ordinary people are paying the price.

What is needed in this multipolar nuclear era is a president with the vision of his younger self.

Munich readies itself for a European defense renaissance.

Why the elites kept calling even after the sex crimes conviction.

This film makes cold calling names from the phone book look as thrilling as Indiana Jones outsmarting the Nazis.

New restrictions try to shield ICE from being watched from above.

The first U.S. jobs report of 2026 is so good, it’s raising eyebrows—and questions.

Washington needs to compete forcefully in its backyard without relying on force alone.

The island’s deputy foreign minister on Trump, defense, and why he thinks countries shouldn’t trust China.

Tehran is threatening to “regionalize the war” if Washington uses force.

Without the treaty, nuclear forces will become hard to verify and harder to trust.

The world is a more dangerous place as New START expires and China’s nuclear arsenal grows.

A contested idea has seen many alleged deaths.

How to present history was also a roiling debate during the bicentennial.

London won the spoils of war from France—and lost the United States.

How the economics of football shape American culture.

It’s less “Triumph of the Will,” more Jackie Kennedy’s landmark TV special.

Plus, more international fiction releases in February.

Caracas is trying desperately to boost investment in its oil patch, but it may be disappointed.

The Republican foreign-policy establishment is developing a robust middle way between primacy and restraint.

Why the country chose a tough-on-crime candidate for president.

The world is returning to an era of weaponized finance.

Trump’s director of national intelligence is making worse the problems with the ill-conceived role.

The Trump administration has sabotaged a key maritime treaty.

The regime in Havana may concede on key issues but won’t give up power.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Trump, NATO, and how Athens thinks about strategic autonomy.

Ottawa has announced ambitious military spending plans, including in the sparsely protected Arctic.

The U.S. administration is seeking to form a trade bloc with countries that it has otherwise scorned.

The new U.S. ambassador in New Delhi may have played an instrumental role in this week’s trade agreement.

How African nations fit into the Trump administration’s plans to combat China.

Mohammed Ibrahim is one of hundreds of Palestinian children who report physical abuse in Israeli detention.

Trump does not want spheres of influence. He wants it all.

Once sacrosanct, the enormous aid package is now in doubt.

Latin American conservatives love to lavish praise upon the U.S. president. But doing so could undermine the region’s long-term interests.

Donald Trump has restored his country’s traditionally tense relationship with its northern neighbor.

Countries with a critical niche may be best primed to endure great-power competition.

Three factors shape when protests restrain democratic erosion—and when they don’t.

Renewing the African Growth and Opportunity Act would protect U.S. jobs and economic power.

Trump announced the deal in a social media post on Monday.

“Here we are once again, thinking that business can transform political relationships,” said one formerly Moscow-based risk analyst.

And here’s how to make U.S.-European energy ties even more resilient.

Even the most MAGA of the region’s leaders can’t abandon their motor of economic development.

The parties include some with a history of antisemitism.

The president’s decision to send troops to Los Angeles received broad national, bipartisan support.

Xi’s purges are part of a generational reshuffling of generals.

The story of how Washington neglected the Arctic—until Trump 2.0.

Trump’s expansion of state power undermines the West’s core achievement: limits on authority.

Trump’s pick did not rattle markets, but the Fed’s future and independence remains uncertain.

Surging demand—and prices—for the mineral stand to benefit exporters in Latin America.

U.S. allies are uniquely vulnerable to coercion by the United States.

The Pentagon quietly released the major policy document.

“All the evidence points to a permanent U.S. military presence,” one expert said.

A redrawing of maps in Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere might serve U.S. interests.

Sycophancy and ideology have replaced realistic assessments of dangers.

Senators attacked the Trump administration’s justification for Maduro’s capture.