Hillary

The Empire Makes Nice

Is it time for a Venezuela reset?

BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | MARCH 11, 2013

The Inside Story of How the White House Let Diplomacy Fail in Afghanistan

"My time in the Obama administration turned out to be a deeply disillusioning experience."

BY VALI NASR | MARCH 4, 2013

Can Kerry Fill Clinton's Shoes?

Times have changed when the foreign policy world is wondering if a man can do a woman’s job.

BY TAMARA COFMAN WITTES | FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Secretary of Schlep

Hillary Clinton traveled to 112 countries -- we made an awesome slide show.

JANUARY 30, 2013

The Year in Quotes

The 20 most puzzling, hypocritical, and revealing things said about U.S. foreign policy in 2012.

BY MICAH ZENKO | DECEMBER 28, 2012

Untouchable

Why Hillary Clinton is the Teflon secretary.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | DECEMBER 18, 2012

Secretaries of Safe

Obama’s likely national security picks are going to reinforce his innate caution -- for better and for worse.

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Overdone Turkey

The hype about Ankara as a regional leader is way overblown.

BY STEVEN A. COOK | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Happy Birthday, Madam Secretary

Fourteen of the best images of Hillary Clinton as she celebrates her 65th birthday.

OCTOBER 26, 2012

The Pivot to Economics

The State Department is hard at work integrating economics into U.S. foreign policy.

BY HEIDI CREBO-REDIKER | OCTOBER 19, 2012

Is America Ready for a Male Secretary of State?

Running Foggy Bottom is a tough job -- maybe too tough for a man.

BY JOHN NORRIS | SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Assessing Hillary

Is America's 67th secretary of state a Seward or a Powell?

SEPT/OCT 2012

Talking a Great Game

So far, Washington's pivot to Asia has included a lot of work on security and trade. Democracy, not so much.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 11, 2012

Abandoning Sergei Magnitsky

Why is Hillary Clinton giving up on human rights in Russia?

BY JAMISON FIRESTONE | JUNE 21, 2012

Debating Hillary

Has Hillary Clinton -- the subject of a major new profile in Foreign Policy -- been a good secretary of state? Seven top foreign-policy watchers assess her legacy.

JUNE 20, 2012

Head of State

Hillary Clinton, the blind dissident, and the art of diplomacy in the Twitter era.

BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | JULY/AUGUST 2012

Old-Fashioned Diplomacy in the
Twitter Age

An exclusive interview with the secretary of state.

INTERVIEW BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | JULY/AUGUST 2012

The Enemy in Foggy Bottom?

Fine, Secretary Romney is a bad idea. But there are plenty of good reasons that presidents should cross the aisle when picking a secretary of state.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JUNE 6, 2012

What It Takes to Be a Great Secretary of State

(And why we can't have one in the Obama administration.)

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 28, 2012

The World in Photos This Week

A tragedy in Toulouse, spring has sprung, and a general testifies.

MARCH 23, 2012

Realpolitik and the Myanmar Spring

Wondering why Hillary Clinton is in Myanmar right now? Hint: it's all about China.

BY BERTIL LINTNER | NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Tour the South China Sea

A visual guide to understanding the conflict.

BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 15, 2011

This Week at War: The Long Shadow of Battles Past

What lessons can we learn from the way the U.S. ends its wars?

BY ROBERT HADDICK | JULY 22, 2011

Memo to Madam Secretary: First, Do No Harm

Hillary Clinton's first visit to a changed Arab world is full of promise and peril.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 14, 2011

10 Conversations That Just Got a Little More Awkward

What WikiLeaks hath wrought.

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Cristina Gets Her Handshake

But it won't do her any good. Why the Clinton visit isn’t enough to bolster Argentina's sagging president.

BY ANNA PETHERICK | MARCH 4, 2010

Uribe Checks Out

Washington's most reliable ally in Latin America, the Colombian president, is on his way out. That's a good thing.

BY ADAM ISACSON | MARCH 4, 2010

Remarks on the Future of European Security

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speaks at France's L'Ecole Militaire on Jan. 29, 2010.

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hillary in Africa

Three weeks after U.S. President Barack Obama visited Africa, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton returned to the region for a sweeping, 11-day, seven-country tour. What both dignitaries shared, besides rock star-worthy receptions, was a rhetoric urging political reform, extolling good governance, and affirming Africa's "promise."

BY ADITI NANGIA | AUGUST 13, 2009

Who's Lobbying for the Coup?

How a Washington split on Honduras policy came to be.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | AUGUST 4, 2009