Keith Johnson

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Keith Johnson

5 hours agoThe largely symbolic budget blueprint sent to Congress also calls for boosting spending on Trump's other priorities, like border security and a "MAHA" initiative on healthy living. President Donald Trump released a budget proposal Friday calling for a mix of cuts to domestic programs involving …

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Keith Johnson

Ever since U.S. President Donald Trump announced his “Liberation Day” tariffs on the rest of the world, there have been, according to the White House, lines of supplicants begging for trade deals. The list, even the short list, is long. At the top of it are India, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Vietnam, Britain, and maybe the European Union.

1 week ago | foreignpolicy.com | Keith Johnson

The massive blackout that left Spain and Portugal in the dark on Monday brought home for many Europeans the overwhelming reliance their societies have on electricity—and the stability of the power system that provides it. Western Europeans used to reliable trains and refrigeration were aghast at having to look for candles, but for much of the world, energy poverty (and brownouts and blackouts and rolling blackouts) is a frequent occurrence.

3 weeks ago | foreignpolicy.com | Keith Johnson

Middle East and North Africa In the five weeks since the Trump administration stepped up attacks on the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, a few big problems have become apparent, underscoring just how hard it is for U.S. President Donald Trump to turn muscular rhetoric into real-world results.

3 weeks ago | foreignpolicy.com | Keith Johnson

Economics United States China In the annals of overestimating one’s trade leverage and then inflicting own-goals, the Confederacy’s 1861 embargo on the exports of its one product—cotton—in the hopes of coercing foreign countries into supporting the nascent nation always held pride of place. Until this spring.