Bill Powell

Biden as a war-time president could revive his political fortunes and, possibly, those of the Democratic party. Here’s how.

Republicans will only lose if they try to fight Biden’s nominee. But some are calculating they could win in a different arena if they let things go smoothly.

Allies in Eastern Europe worried the U.S. wasn’t taking the Russian threat seriously enough. Then Biden held his disastrous press conference.

GOP mainstreamers fear Trump’s obsession with the 2020 election and brash style will hurt the party in the midterms—and in 2024 as well.

With his domestic agenda at risk of failure and the prospect rising of a Democratic drubbing in the midterms, Biden needs to act swiftly to rescue his term.

Like the attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya or the crash of Desert One near Tehran, the disastrous Afghanistan pullout will do serious political damage.

The Japanese leader loved the skateboarding competition. Now he has to keep his balance in coordinating with the U.S. against Chinese cyber, trade threats.

U.S. policymakers were sure that if China opened economically, political freedom would follow. Maybe it’s time for a Mao Zedong-style self-criticism session.

The former president’s friends and aides worry that his “reinstatement” talk makes him sound “unhinged.” But his insistence that COVID-19 was caused by a Chinese lab leak doesn’t sound so crazy in light of Dr. Fauci’s email comments.

With Israel continuing to pummel Hamas, and growing support for Palestinians within his own party, Biden seemed to have no good options. Yet he comes out of the crisis with more freedom to do what he actually wants: Seek a deal with Iran.

The Japanese leader dismissed speculation his government was considering delaying or canceling the games, with fewer than 100 days remaining before their scheduled start.

What would Joe Biden do if he had to choose between pleasing his political donors or endorsing a key Donald Trump policy? Well, obviously he’s going to...wait a minute. He what???On the most consequential foreign policy issue that the Biden administration is likely to face—how to deal with the People’s Republic of China—the new Democratic president seems ready to follow the path set out by his Republican predecessor.“Let me just say that I believe that President Trump was right in taking a tough…

The morning after one of the closest presidential elections in U..S. history, President Trump’s campaign aides were flinging lawsuits at contested states and expressing their confidence with optimistic cliches. The White House and the campaign still insisted the president had a path to victory, despite trailing in the critical Midwest states of Michigan and Wisconsin. As one staffer not authorized to speak on the record told Newsweek, the campaign’s multi-state legal strategy could enable them ”…

The president doesn’t need to win the majority of African American voters: he just needs to lower Biden’s margin of victory.

Trump officials scramble to keep the president’s campaign on track: their plans for “mega rallies” and future debates were all in question.

When President Donald Trump took the stage at a campaign rally in Bemidji, Minnesota, on Friday night, aides say, he was unaware that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died. But that doesn’t mean the White House and its Republican allies in the Senate were unprepared. Ginsburg and Justice Stephen Breyer were both over 80 years old. Clarence Thomas is 72. According to a White House source not authorized to speak on the record, there had been “general discussions” on what would happen…

In a wide-ranging interview, the president’s senior adviser (and son-in-law) discussed his work on criminal justice reform, the COVID-19 crisis and why African Americans should vote for Trump.

Donald Trump’s senior adviser explains how he operates in shaping Trump’s presidency. Will his efforts be enough to win a second term for his father-in-law?

It had been a bedrock belief of U.S. policy for 40 years that it was possible to bring the People’s Republic of China smoothly into the family of nations—and now, one of the architects of that policy was finally acknowledging the obvious.In a speech six months ago, former World Bank President and Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick reminded listeners of his own famous 2005 call on Beijing to become a “responsible stakeholder.” He ticked off a few of the ways in which China had done just th…

The first time a China-backed candidate was named Director General of the World Health Organization, the president of the United States had other things on his mind. China had just a few years earlier botched its response to the outbreak of a flu-like disease, first covering it up and then underreporting the results. No matter. The president wanted stable relations with Beijing, and no one in his administration raised any particular objections to the selection for the top job at the WHO.On Novem…