John Haltiwanger is a staff writer at Foreign Policy covering U.S. national security, the Middle East, and more. Prior to joining FP, John covered U.S. politics and foreign affairs for GZERO Media, Business Insider, and Newsweek. John has reported from Europe, the Middle East, and North America. He has a master’s in international relations from the University of Glasgow.
University of California, Los Angeles students, researchers, and demonstrators rally during a “Kill the Cuts” protest against the Trump administration’s funding cuts on research, health, and higher education in Los Angeles on April 8.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) talks to U.S. President Donald Trump during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on April 7.
A member of the pharmacology department at Lodwar County Referral Hospital takes inventory of the last boxes of drugs delivered by the now-dismantled USAID amid medical supply shortages in Lodwar, Kenya, on April 1.
U.S. President Donald Trump, accompanied by National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, speaks during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on Feb. 4.
From left: U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and Defense Intelligence Agency Director Jeffrey Kruse testify before the House Intelligence Committee on the U.S. annual worldwide threat assessment at the Longworth House Office Building in Washington on March 26.
U.S. President Donald Trump, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth during a meeting in the Oval Office in Washington on March 13.
