America

Thanksgiving celebration. Photo :Reuters
Coronavirus chronicle

'Kind of lonely': America marks Covid-altered Thanksgiving

The holiday is being celebrated at a time of severe economic strain for millions of Americans

Army Chief of Staff General Mark Milley, Vice President Joe Biden, Major General Andrew P. Poppas, and Army Secretary Eric Fanning attend the transfer of a soldier who died of injuries sustained in Afghanistan, in Illinois on Nov 15, 2016. ALEX WONG/GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy
Analysis

Can Biden end America’s forever wars?

Shlomo Ben-Ami.
Thoughts

Joe Biden’s world order

The American consumer is flush with cash after paying down debt
Analysis

The American consumer is flush with cash after paying down debt

People cheer after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump in the Pennsylvania general election vote count, across the street from where ballots are being counted, three days after the 2020 US presidential election, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US November 6, 2020. REUTERS/Mark Makela
Analysis

America’s democracy demotion

Joe Biden at a meeting about a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington June 13, 2016. SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy
Analysis

Biden can’t stop America’s democratic decline

Barry Eichengreen.
Thoughts

America’s dangerous interregnum

When mad king Trump is above democracy!
Analysis

When mad king Trump is above democracy!

Joseph Biden speaks to the media as Executive Director of the Middle Class Task Force Jared Bernstein, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors Christina Romer, Director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers, White House Budget Director Peter Orszag listen during a meeting on economy with the task force at the Roosevelt Room of the White House October 2, 2009 in Washington. Photo :Getty Image via Foreign Policy
US Election 2020

America’s economy Is fragile. So is Biden’s economic team

Trump was always the symptom of a larger breakdown. Photo: Bloomberg/Getty Images
Panorama

America’s age of anger is just getting started

Elaine Chao (center) watches as her husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (left), and U.S. Vice President Joe Biden participate in a mock swearing-in in the Old Senate Chamber in Washington on Jan. 6, 2015. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy
US Election 2020

How President-elect Biden could—believe it or not—help to heal America

Donald Trump speaks at a rally in Tampa, Florida. Although he lost, Trump’s divisive approach to governing has changed U.S. politics in ways that will be felt far into the future. Photographer: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg
Analysis

How Donald Trump lost America

Military intelligence? Photographer: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images/Bloomberg
Analysis

America enters the era of technopolitik