List of United States articles
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Fighters from the Iraqi Imam Ali Brigade, take part in a training exercise in Iraq's central city of Najaf on March 7, 2015, ahead of joining the military operation in the city of Tikrit. ISIS Is a Survivor
Donald Trump claims to have defeated the Islamic State—but the group was designed to prove him wrong.
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An Israeli F-35 fighter jet performs during an air show at the graduation ceremony of Israeli pilots at the Hatzerim Israeli Air Force base on June 27. Is Iraq the New Front Line in Israel’s Conflict with Iran?
Nearly four decades after taking out Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor, Israel once again faces threats emanating from Iranian-backed militias in Iraq.
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A Greenland ice melt lake atop the sheet, seen from 5,000 feet above, in August. Across Greenland’s massive ice sheet, blue pools of melted water, forming icy lakes, dot the landscape as far as the eye can see. Greenland Is the Center of the World
The Arctic island offers a harrowing reminder of the environmental damage, and political dangers, already imposed by climate change.
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Local Afghan militia and Afghan Army soldiers consult March 14, 2007 in Kajaki, Helmand province, Afghanistan. Afghan troops, along with British Marine trainers, patrol through the area near the Kajaki hydroelectric dam. How to Partner With the Taliban
The Trump administration’s peace deal for Afghanistan needs a plan for the country’s most looming threat: international terrorists whom both sides oppose.
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NASA avionics technician Lauren Prinski looks out the window of a research aircraft before takeoff from Thule Air Base in Greenland on March 30, 2017. Here’s How Trump Should Have Approached Greenland
The United States can build on its strategic toehold without buying the entire country.
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Beto O'Rourke carries his son Henry O'Rourke on his shoulder as they march along the US Mexico border in protest of President Donald Trump's proposed border wall, February 11 in El Paso, Texas. Liberals Need National Borders
The immigration issue is there for the taking for Democrats—if they don’t treat it as a culture war.
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A rocket lifts off from the Xichang launch center in China's southwestern Sichuan province on Dec. 8, 2018. America Is Losing the Second Space Race to China
The private sector can give the United States a much-needed rocket boost.
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Paramedics remove an injured man suspected of being an undercover police officer and attacked during a protest at Hong Kong International Airport during a demonstration on Aug. 13. Hong Kongers Can’t Always Tell Cops From Comrades
Police infiltration is an old tactic—and not just by autocrats.
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Foreign Policy illustration/Zach Gibson/Dominique Berretty/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images Make America Existentialist Again
French philosophy came to define the postwar era. As U.S. politics get ever more absurd, it’s time for a comeback.
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Activists burn Chinese flags and display anti-China placards during a protest at a park in Manila on June 18, 2019. China’s South China Sea Militarization Has Peaked
Artificial islands are becoming more trouble than they’re worth.
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Dollars and yuan notes are seen at a bank on May 15, 2006 in Beijing, China. The United States Will Miss China’s Money
The rattled stock market gets all the trade war attention, but it’s the sharp decline in China’s U.S. investments that should alarm Americans.
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A statue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his dog Fala are seen at the FDR Memorial September 20, 2012 in Washington, DC. There Once Was a President Who Hated War
American elites used to see war as a tragic necessity. Now they’re completely addicted to it.
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A 1747 map of Greenland. American Imperialists Have Always Dreamed of Greenland
Trump’s reported hopes of buying the Danish island exemplify his 19th-century values.
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Neo-Nazi protestors organized by the National Socialist Movement demonstrate near where the grand opening ceremonies were held for the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center April 19, 2009 in Skokie, Illinois. White Supremacists Want a Dirty Bomb
And the Trump administration is letting them get dangerously close to acquiring one.
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An Afghan boy looks on in a damaged house near the site of an attack in Kabul on July 29, a day after the deadly assault targeting a political campaign office. The U.S. Shouldn’t Stumble Out of Afghanistan
Letting the country unravel isn't an exit strategy.
