Foreign Policy

Citizens hungry for information turned to the media during the pandemic, but governments around the world used the crisis to restrict journalists.

Old narratives about the city fell apart this year, but new ones can still be born.

From the tragedy of whistleblowers to imperiled nuclear talks to the State Department's struggle with diversity, here are some of our articles that had an outsized impact this year.

The country will become only the third in Latin America to allow unmitigated access to the procedure.

Despite heated language, the U.S. goals haven’t changed.

Americans are aware that Democrats and Republicans have become polarized—but they’ve misunderstood how.

Here are five of our best pieces on how East Asia handled the pandemic.

A look back at our best essays on the onset of the coronavirus.

Sen. Bernie Sanders is threatening to delay Senate business until a vote is scheduled on sending $2,000 checks to Americans.

We don't yet know whether new variants of the coronavirus may impede vaccines’ efficacy. But they shouldn’t change anything about our approach to public health.

Respecting drug companies’ intellectual property rights during a pandemic doesn’t make medical, or economic, sense.

The world in 2021 will be haunted by the legacies of 2020: an ongoing pandemic, an economic crisis, Donald Trump’s divisive presidency—and new threats emanating from wars and climate change.

After decades of uneasy ties, China can no longer deny that India is a real threat.

With much of the world in lockdown again, here are some of this year’s highlights to help you pass the time.

The United States was already fighting with China for influence at global organizations, but the pandemic made everything worse.

From Afghanistan to Mexico, and from Belarus to Cambodia, here’s the best photojournalism from a year that felt like a decade.

The coziness between Washington and Big Tech is over.

The British novelist didn’t just write about the world of intelligence. He changed it forever.

The continent thought it had the coronavirus beat—and had its guard down when it mattered most.

Turkey took its expansionist vision to new heights in 2020—but with a battered economy, growing opposition, and now U.S. sanctions, it’s not clear how long that can continue.