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Hillary Clinton: ‘Congress Has Abdicated Its Responsibility’

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Ravi Agrawal

Trump’s Pivot to Pakistan

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Rishi Iyengar

What the 2025 National Security Strategy Means for Asia

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C. Raja Mohan

Mexican Climate Activists’ Ambitions Are Crumbling

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Caroline Tracey

Trump’s New Corollary

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Jay Sexton

The Only War the White House Is Ready for Is Culture War

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Kori Schake

Why Indonesia’s Not Out of the Flood Zone

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Joseph Rachman

A World of Cons, Crooks, and Culprits

Lately, there has been a lot of talk about the multibillion-dollar online scam industry that has proliferated in Southeast Asia, where so-called...

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Chloe Hadavas

Does Europe Finally Realize It’s Alone?

Does Europe Finally Realize It’s Alone?

Ongoing reports and analysis Europeans lulled themselves into the belief that U.S. President Donald Trump is unpredictable and inconsistent but...

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Nathalie Tocci

America’s Emerging Plutocracy

One of the differences between President Donald Trump’s second term and his first has been a full-blown attack on the expert class. Vice President...

05.12.2025 10

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Fareed Zakaria

Trump Is Threatening His Own World Cup

Trump Is Threatening His Own World Cup

Billions of people around the world will be watching the 2026 World Cup, which begins on June 11 with a majority of the games hosted in the United...

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Antonio De Loera-Brust

An AI Bust May Not Be All Bad News

Last month, Nvidia—the maker of the go-to chips for artificial intelligence (AI) developers—crossed $5 trillion in market capitalization and...

05.12.2025 8

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Bhaskar Chakravorti

Pete Hegseth’s Bad Week

Pete Hegseth’s Bad Week

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where your co-authors are comparing their “Spotify Wrapped” revelations. John’s music...

05.12.2025 2

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Rishi Iyengar

Election Drama Heats Up in Honduras

Election Drama Heats Up in Honduras

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump intervenes in the presidential election...

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Catherine Osborn

Trump Has Many Options if the Supreme Court Strikes Down Tariffs

Trump Has Many Options if the Supreme Court Strikes Down Tariffs

The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to soon come to a decision in Learning Resources v. Trump, the case that will determine whether the tariffs that...

05.12.2025 4

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Clark Packard

Xi, Macron Seize Symbolic Victories in Unorthodox Summit

Xi, Macron Seize Symbolic Victories in Unorthodox Summit

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a rare China-France summit outside of Beijing, Russia offering India uninterrupted fuel...

05.12.2025 4

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Alexandra Sharp

Biden’s Long Shadow Over Ukraine

In late summer of 2022, Ukraine launched a major counteroffensive in the country’s south. On Nov. 11, that operation resulted in the liberation of...

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Adrian Karatnycky

Trump’s New National Security Strategy Goes Full ‘America First’

Trump’s New National Security Strategy Goes Full ‘America First’

Ongoing reports and analysis The Trump administration released its long-anticipated new national security strategy late Thursday night, laying out...

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Rishi Iyengar

When the Democratic Recession Comes Home

When the Democratic Recession Comes Home

Ongoing reports and analysis It is a bad time to argue that the United States should do more to promote democracy around the world, and Michael...

05.12.2025 6

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Vivek Viswanathan

What in the World?

Have feedback? Email [email protected] to let me know your thoughts. 1. The Democratic Republic of the Congo on Monday announced the end of an...

05.12.2025 3

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Drew Gorman

Two Unsettling Voyages Across the Sea

Two Unsettling Voyages Across the Sea

This month, we’re reading two unnerving tales that traverse South America and Western Europe. Fátima Vélez, trans. Hannah Kauders (Astra House,...

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Chloe Hadavas

A Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Women in Taiwan

In the opening scene of Shih-Ching Tsou’s Left-Handed Girl, 5-year-old I-Jing lifts a kaleidoscope to her eye. The car’s interior, the highway...

05.12.2025 3

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Nina Li Coomes

A Jekyll and Hyde for the Manosphere Crowd

A Jekyll and Hyde for the Manosphere Crowd

In The Things You Kill, the new film from Toronto-based Iranian director Alireza Khatami, a harrowing instance of femicide serves as a mirror to a...

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Kaya Genc

Africa Was the Biggest Loser of China’s COP30 Triumph

Africa Was the Biggest Loser of China’s COP30 Triumph

COP30 stumbled to a close with a voluntary pledge so weak that it practically invites abuse. But the biggest losers were not the absent...

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Nathaniel Mong’Are

Modi Walks a Tightrope Between Putin and Trump

Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at India’s ties with Russia, U.S.-...

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Alexandra Sharp

West Bank Violence Threatens Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan

West Bank Violence Threatens Trump’s Gaza Peace Plan

News, analysis, and background. MORE ON THIS TOPIC Escalating Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank has been a...

04.12.2025 2

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John Haltiwanger

Silicon Valley Wants Disaster Bunkers. Norway Wants ‘Preparedness Friends.’

These days, we’re all worried about various crises, from a collapsing climate to the fear of an emergent Skynet. In the United States, tech...

04.12.2025 2

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Elisabeth Braw