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Shakh Aivazov / AP How the Political World Is Reacting to Trump's Immigration Order
The executive order drew criticism from several prominent Republicans but support from party leaders. Democrats roundly denounced the policy.
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Joe Penney / Reuters This Is What It's Like to Come to the United States as a Refugee
One story of coming to America from the Soviet Union
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Jim Young / Reuters Rubio's Revenge?
The Florida Republican has the power to sink Rex Tillerson’s nomination for secretary of state and deal an early blow to a president-elect who belittled him a year ago.
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Andrew Harnik / AP Will Obama Retaliate Against Russia Before He Leaves Office?
The president will face questions about acting against Vladimir Putin during his final year-end press conference on Friday afternoon.
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Susan Walsh / AP The Senate Will Investigate Russian Election Interference
With Mitch McConnell’s backing, a bipartisan inquiry could tee up the first confrontation between Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress.
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Susan Walsh / AP Another First for Obama: A Veto Override
Congress voted overwhelmingly to disregard the president’s rejection of legislation allowing 9/11 victims to sue a foreign government in U.S. court.
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Gary Cameron / Reuters Why Does the United States Give So Much Money to Israel?
The two countries just signed a new military-aid deal—the biggest pledge of its kind in American history. It have may seemed inevitable, but the record-setting moment is also rife with irony.
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Gerald Herbert / AP Donald Trump Thinks America Was Too Nice to Iraq
The Republican nominee says the U.S. needs to be tougher—on its enemies, immigrants, and the nations it invades.
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Mark Kauzlarich / Reuters Translating Trump's Foreign Policy
The Republican nominee's comments to The New York Times are likely to be received very differently by his base than by Washington's elites.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Culture Is Replacing Class as the Key Political Divide
On both sides of the Atlantic—in the United Kingdom and the United States—political parties are realigning and voters’ allegiances are shifting.
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Chris Wattie / Reuters A Canadian Trumpathon
Questions about the presumptive Republican nominee dominated a press conference of North America’s top leaders, culminating in a rant by President Obama.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Psychology of Voting to Leave the EU
People in Great Britain felt their leaders weren’t treating them fairly. Politicians in the U.S. should take note.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters Laura Bush's Case for Remaining in Afghanistan
America’s commitment to the rights of women, the former First Lady argues, obliges it to stay the course.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters Why Trump Can't Easily Replicate the Brexit's Success
The Republican candidate is deeply unpopular, and his Democratic rival is promoting her own version of American nationalism.
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Andrew Harnik / AP House Republicans Push Back on Trump’s Foreign Policy
GOP leaders have crafted an agenda that bears little resemblance to their presidential candidate’s stated vision.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters Trump's Libya Quagmire
The presumptive Republican nominee tries to draw a contrast between himself and Hillary Clinton, but both of them supported U.S. involvement in both Libya and Iraq.
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Gerry Broome / AP Remembering Those Who Wore the 'Boots on the Ground'
A metaphor conceals the price paid by those who serve their country in times of war.
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Czarek Sokolowski / AP Why Trump Looks Eerily Familiar to Germans
Many Europeans see the rise of Trump as part of a broad and disturbing trend towards far-right nativist nationalism.
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Pablo Martinez Monsivais / AP Ben Rhodes and the 'Retailing' of the Iran Deal
Here’s what the New York Times Magazine’s story gets wrong.
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Eduardo Munoz / Reuters Donald Trump and the GOP Tradition of Foreign-Policy Incoherence
It's easy to mock the Republican front-runner. But the “more serious” candidates he toppled don’t make a lot more sense.
