Without exaggeration or fear of contradiction it can be said that recent American foreign policy has been a disaster for the American worker. Not long ago, good manufacturing jobs were plentiful. One ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... Ours is no longer a young country. If you start Western history with the Greeks, a quarter millennium is in the ballpark of 10 percent of it ...

“The use of tariffs the way that President Trump is using them is like — just broadscale attack on an economy as a way to ...

After Tuesday's election results and low approval numbers for Republicans, allies are raising concerns that President Trump is too focused on foreign policy.

The president's lies about tariffs, immigration raids, rising prices, and foreign policy came back to haunt him.

The last time a sitting pope died in 2005, the largest gathering of world leaders in history came to his funeral, witnesses that Pope John Paul II was the most consequential historical figure of the ...

For decades, the foreign policy elite in both parties insisted that America’s greatness has more to do with Damascus than Detroit, or Baghdad than Bozeman. It was a bipartisan delusion—driven by ...

In his second term, President Trump’s excessive personalization of foreign policy has been on full display. But far from being the deft strategist he portrays, Trump has turned American diplomacy into ...

As the world evolves, the United States must adapt or suffer the consequences. The process of adaptation, however, is usually plodding, if it happens at all. Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden each ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. After the Labour Party’s landslide victory that ended fourteen years of ...

In the run-up to the 1992 U.S. presidential election between Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush, Clinton campaign strategist James Carville famously coined the phrase, “It’s the economy, stupid.” The ...

The fog surrounding Thai Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra’s coalition government is clearing, with the cabinet line-up and policies expected to be in place by mid-September. Amid the wait, ...