Americas

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.

That may not be a good thing.

The “rules-based international order” may prove stronger than Trump—or anyone else—realizes.

In Gaza, it will legitimize Israeli land grabs and ethnic cleansing.

Acquiring Greenland has been a costly distraction from longer-term challenges posed by Russia and China.

Interfering in Latin American affairs is Washington’s bread and butter.

In its response to protests, the U.S. evokes repressive regimes around the world.

Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s killings in Minneapolis have brought back memories of government escalation.

Options range from targeted tariffs to selling off U.S. debt—but they’re risky.

A 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia offers a key to understanding how Trump’s adventurism plays out.

Saretta Morgan’s poems speak the language of the Southwest’s deserts.

Nobody should be surprised at how the world is reacting to Donald Trump’s threats.

America’s allies may comply for now. But the damage to trust will have consequences.

U.S. aggression is nothing new for the region.

Extending the nuclear treaty is not about trust—it’s about pragmatism.

Donald Trump’s dangerous fixation with imperial aesthetics.

Trump’s wrecking ball creates new determination to address the continent’s long-festering problems.

The Canadian leader’s Davos speech is a masterclass in realism—and an overdue admission of hypocrisy.

Trump’s “Board of Peace” is neither an alternative to the U.N. nor a harmless vanity project but a threat to international cooperation.

The U.S. president followed up a concerning speech with a confusing announcement.

Trump’s Greenland spectacle has liberal-minded Americans rooting for the other guy.

The commentariat persists in misrepresenting the U.S. president and his actions.

Economy Minister Nir Barkat: “We’ll do better business in places that want us.”

Nearly one year on, one of the biggest U.S. defense proposals remains little more than a concept.

As the United States blusters and threatens, European leaders are making tough choices.

Firing central bank governors may prove to be a red line.

The continent is finally showing some strategic resolve. Will it last?

Lawmakers opted against using the power of the purse to forbid forcible annexation of Greenland.

Trump follows Greenland threats by announcing a “future deal,” while Canada’s prime minister describes it all as a “rupture in the world order.”

In his speech in Davos, Trump asked for the territory and said only the United States could defend it.

Delcy Rodríguez is the latest spare politician to be thrust into a top job.

Read Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s forceful speech at Davos rebuking Trump’s world order.

The answer is global—and has big implications for U.S. policy.

For all its risks, Beijing has become a more predictable partner than the United States under Trump.