Foreign Policy In Focus

The United States is not heading toward a soft landing, according to a grim account of U.S. foreign policy follies.

A new book describes an attempt to map uncontacted tribes in the Amazon without contacting them.

Zahra's Paradise skillfully employs the story of one family to elucidate a tenuous historical moment in Iran, fleshing it out in the richest of both human and political terms.

A new book on Pakistan looks at the thicket of problems in which the United States has become enmeshed.

A new collection of source documents shows that torture is nothing new in American history.

A new book looks at the history and current importance of the sanctuary movement.

A new book of oral histories gives voice to those who suffered from the curtailment of civil liberties after 9/11.