Uri Friedman
He was previously the deputy managing editor at Foreign Policy.
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Athit Perawongmetha / Reuters Mike Pence's Faith-Based Foreign Policy
When the vice president speaks up for human rights, it’s through the narrow lens of his conservative Christian worldview.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters House Democrats Want to Investigate Trump's Foreign Policy
A divided Congress means that House Democrats will take more of an investigative posture than a legislative one.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Trump Repeatedly Threatens Retaliation Against Russia Investigators
Congressman Adam Schiff has plans to probe several uncomfortable subjects for the Trump administration, and the president is ready to fight.
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Mario Tama / Getty America Isn’t the ‘Only Country’ With Birthright Citizenship
The president incorrectly claims that America is the “only country” that gives citizenship to all babies born within its borders.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Khashoggi’s Murder Heralds a New Era of Impunity
The ugly geopolitics in the wake of the Saudi journalist’s death point to a world in which impunity reigns.
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Reuters Trump Hates International Treaties. His Latest Target: A Nuclear-Weapons Deal With Russia.
The next casualty of President Trump’s suspicion of multilateral deals could be a 30-year-old arms accord with Russia.
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Leah Millis / Reuters Mike Pompeo’s Worldview? Do As Trump Does.
Pompeo has responded to the Khashoggi affair in lockstep with Trump.
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Ludovic Marin / Reuters The President of the United States Asks, ‘What’s an Ally?’
In a wide-ranging interview with ‘60 Minutes,’ Donald Trump revisited one of his favorite themes.
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Mark Wilson / Getty Why Nikki Haley’s Departure Shocked Washington
Trump’s UN ambassador wasn’t always in lockstep with the president, even as she tried to present a united front.
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Kris Tripplaar / The Atlantic Festival Lindsey Graham to Trump: Make North Korea Choose Between ‘Death or Condos’
A hardline adviser speaks out against the president's lovey-dovey diplomacy with Kim Jong Un.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Donald Trump’s Real Endgame With China
There’s more at stake than trade.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The World Adjusts to Donald J. Trump
If 2017 was the year he stormed the UN, 2018 was the year the institution got used to it.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Donald Trump Takes the World Inside His ‘Very Large Brain’
At the end of a contentious visit to the United Nations, the American president delivered a globe-spanning seminar on his worldview.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump Calls Out Election Meddling—By China
In remarks at the UN Security Council, the U.S. president recommitted to a mounting great-power rivalry.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters The ‘Compliment Trump’ Doctrine
“You are, indeed, the only person who can solve this problem,” South Korea’s Moon Jae In told his counterpart about North Korea—just before he amped up the pressure.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Donald Trump Issues a Scathing Rejection of ‘Globalism’
In his UN speech, the U.S. president went after several countries and institutions—but perhaps none more so than the world order itself.
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Reuters / Pyeongyang Press Corps South Korea May Have Just Helped Break a Nuclear Impasse
As talks with Washington seemed to stall, Seoul created its own path with Pyongyang.
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John Westrich / Getty UN Secretary-General: American Power Is in Decline, the World Is ‘in Pieces’
António Guterres confronts the “reemergence of irrationality” in global politics.
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Rami Niemi South Koreans Love Their ‘Stress Cafés’
New places of respite are popping up in one of the world’s most overworked, underslept cities.
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Brian Snyder / Reuters The Woodward Book Comes for James Mattis
A veteran Washington journalist describes the defense secretary as avoiding confrontation and showing respect. But the rest of the book may have blown up that strategy.
