Structural reforms like ranked-choice voting could take decades. The right leader could expedite the process and save the republic in the meantime.

Putin says he’ll do whatever it takes in Ukraine. Biden is warning of “Armageddon.” Sixty years after the U.S.–Soviet standoff over Cuba, why is nuclear war still an ever-present worry?

The CIA’s abrupt turnabout on the issue of imaginary microwave ray guns left a lot of lawmakers without a favorite political prop.

What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?

The idea that Joe Biden squandered American credibility in the Afghan withdrawal is seductive, but it connects the wrong dots.

The 1961 Cuba invasion was an epic presidential botch—and yet, Kennedy’s standing improved afterward. Take note, Mr. President.

For decades, they asked the lower classes to sacrifice on behalf of the revolution, while prioritizing tourism. Now protesters are saying they’ve had enough.

Rather than pursue another heavy-handed failure, the Biden administration should lift the unjust trade embargo and keep away from the island nation’s nascent protest movement.

Has Russia been zapping American embassies with a secret weapon?

The late Cuban strongman was everything the Democratic front-runner has long railed against: a grifting plutocrat from the top one percent.

When it comes to Iran, Israel, and Latin America, Democratic leaders are closer in mindset to the Trump administration than you might think.

How the senator from Florida went from being “Liddle Marco” to dictating U.S. foreign policy in Latin America.

Sixty years to the day after the Cuban Revolution transformed the right-left struggle in Latin America, far-right Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil's president.

Evo Morales has done remarkable things for his country. But now, he is rejecting term limits—and Bolivians are taking to the streets to stand up for the rule of law.

The bold, vivid worlds of Rachel Kushner’s novels

Elections and free markets haven’t solved the real problems in Latin America.

They're an easily faked way to score international points.