List of North America articles
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1_Sept_covers Books in Brief: Fresh Reads on WWII Maritime History, Clipper Ships, and Cambodian Refugees
Foreign Policy staffers review recent releases.
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U.S. President Donald Trump reaches to shake Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's hand before a meeting at the Palace Hotel during the 72nd U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 21, 2017 in New York City. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images) The U.S.-Turkey Relationship Is Worse Off Than You Think
The alliance between Washington and Ankara needs to be saved—and easy fixes won't cut it.
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A hijacked plane is seen as it hits the second tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (Masatomo Kuriya/Corbis via Getty Images) Al Qaeda Won
Seventeen years after the 9/11 attacks, the terrorists have definitively won the battle for the American mind.
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks following the ceremonial swearing-in of James Mattis as secretary of defense on Jan. 27, 2017, at the Pentagon in Washington. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) How to Slow-Walk a President
U.S. leaders have almost unchecked powers in a crisis. But the bureaucracy has ways to gum up the system.
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Donald Trump holds up a replica flintlock rifle awarded him by cadets during the Republican Society Patriot Dinner at the Citadel Military College on February 22, 2015 in Charleston, South Carolina. (Richard Ellis/Getty Images) The Battle for Crazytown
America’s newest live-streaming reality show features the foreign-policy establishment fighting for its life against Donald Trump.
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People eat and drink in a street on August 15, 2018 in Istanbul, Turkey. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images) America Can’t Be Trusted to Run the Global Economy
After Donald Trump’s unprovoked attack on Turkey, the world must protect itself from Washington’s economic power.
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US Secretary of Defense James Mattis (L), US Vice President Mike Pence (2ndL), White House Chief of Staff John Kelly (2ndR) and Pence Chief of Staff Nick Ayers (R) listen as US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before a meeting in the Pentagon January 18, 2018 in Washington, DC.(BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images) The Insubordination of Trump Isn’t Treason. It’s Normal.
The president isn't being subverted by the deep state—he's being thwarted by bureaucracy.
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Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is greeted by Pope Francis during the Ordinary Public Consistory at St. Peter's Basilica on February 14, 2015 in Vatican City, Vatican. (Franco Origlia/Getty Images) The Catholic Church Is a Dysfunctional Workplace
The ferocity of the Vatican’s civil war has less to do with theology or justice than petty office politics.
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Kosovo-Albanian waves an Albanian and a American flag when he ride a horse during the celebration of Kosovo's expected declaration of independence on February 16, 2008 in Pristina, Kosov. (Carsten Koall/Getty Images) How to Restart War in the Balkans
The Trump administration will regret looking for simple solutions to Eastern Europe's territorial disputes.
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WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 26: U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands while delivering joint statements in the Rose Garden of the White House June 26, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Image) America Shouldn’t Miss Its Chance With India
Trump's neglected a vital relationship—but it's not too late to make things right.
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Ali Akbar Velayati, chief foreign policy advisor to Iran's supreme leader, disembarks from his plane upon his arrival in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on November 7, 2017. (GEORGE OURFALIAN/AFP/Getty Images) The Man Who Actually Runs Iran’s Foreign Policy
Tehran’s course is set by a shadowy figure behind the scenes—not the leaders who talk to the West.
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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on as U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis speaks during a press conference at the Australia-U.S. Ministerial Consultations at the Hoover Institution on the campus of Stanford University on July 24, 2018 in Stanford, California. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Security Brief: Sticking Points at Historic U.S.-India Talks; Making the Carrier Great Again?
Catch up on everything you need to know about the inaugural U.S.-India ministerial dialogue in New Delhi this week, the U.S. Navy’s big step toward building a new unmanned tanker, and more.
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U.S. President Donald Trump holds up a signed presidential memorandum aimed at what he calls "China's economic aggression" in Washington on March 22. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images) The Lesson of Smoot-Hawley
On the podcast: The last big American trade war was in 1930. It ended badly for everyone.
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Children gesture at the instruction of a teacher at Gyongsang Kindergarten in Pyongyang on Aug. 23. (Carl Court/Getty Images) Welcome American Friends to Glorious North Korea
Letting U.S. tourists back into the country would be a small but potent move toward peace.
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A man stands under an umbrella as monsoon rains arrive in Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, on Aug. 28. More than 700,000 Rohingya refugees have fled to Bangladesh. (Paula Bronstein/Getty Images) It’s Time to Hold Myanmar Accountable
A year after the ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya began, the United States is still dragging its feet.
