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Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we dare anyone to start a third party to disrupt the Haltiwanger-Iyengar dichotomy. (Elon...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at France and Britain’s migration and nuclear weapons deals, U.S. tariff threats against Brazil,...
Have feedback? Email [email protected] to let me know your thoughts. 1. Poland reinstated border controls with which two countries on Monday?...
The estimated size of the global art market in 2024 was $57.5 billion. That represents a decline of about 12 percent from the previous year, with...
If our nation’s spies are the infantry of our ideology, as John Le Carré once observed, Tom Sylvester is an unknown soldier who became a four-star...
The British direct action activist group Palestine Action is now banned in the United Kingdom after a High Court judge refused to grant an...
In recent years, the Western public discussion has been full of laments over the collapse of the so-called rules-based international order...
The aesthetics are compelling. Black and white photos of a Tehran University lecture hall with men and women seated side by side wearing the best...
Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump’s second trade blitzkrieg this week, after resuscitating his plan to enact sweeping...
This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made his third official visit to Washington since U.S. President Donald Trump took office in...
One of my colleagues who often has a way with words described the recent debate about bomb damage to Iran’s three main nuclear sites as...
Ongoing reports and analysis Ever since the MAGA movement engulfed the U.S. Republican Party, it has harbored two competing foreign-policy...
Analysis and updates “I want to swim in Lake Tiberias,” then-Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad told U.S. President Bill Clinton in March 2000, just...
Get audio access with any FP subscription. Subscribe Now ALREADY AN FP SUBSCRIBER? LOGIN Stretching for 5 miles across the Paraná River between...
The race for critical and rare-earth mineral dominance is escalating, underscored by the Trump administration’s recent agreement with Ukraine....
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump hosts a surprise African leaders’ summit in...
Ongoing reports and analysis The on-again, off-again feud between U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk is on again—and the world’s...
How low can the dollar go? The world’s reserve currency has declined by more than 10 percent in 2025, its worst start to a year in five decades....
Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Russia’s latest attack on...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The issue of the Dalai Lama’s succession presents a challenge for...
On April 12, 2025, the world watched as Gabonese citizens cast their ballots in the first presidential election since the fall of the Bongo...
Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte, the daughter of former President Rodrigo Duterte, is currently the front-runner to win the country’s next...
The much-anticipated NATO summit in The Hague in late June accomplished its core objectives: securing a 5 percent defense pledge, managing U.S....
Analysis and updates On June 22, U.S. President Donald Trump asked, “[I]f the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why...
Imagine this: U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin stand on either side of Chinese President Xi Jinping atop Beijing’s...
For decades, U.S. policy toward North Korea has hinged on the hope that engagement and negotiation—particularly the promise of sanctions relief and...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. Last month, we published a brief history of China’s language Romanization—and why Americans in particular...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. trade threats, French President Emmanuel Macron’s visit to the United Kingdom, and deadly...
MORE ON THIS TOPIC Speaking to reporters at the White House on Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced, “We’re working with the...
There is an ongoing debate about just how much of a setback Iran’s nuclear program experienced during its recent conflict with Israel and the...
MORE ON THIS TOPIC The first thing I learned about the world on Sunday morning was that Israeli airstrikes had killed dozens of Palestinians on yet...
Ongoing reports and analysis On June 25, U.S. President Donald Trump held a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, during the...
Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s plan for overhauling the State Department’s 300-plus bureaus and offices has...
In February, the ambassadors to the United States of the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau met with U.S. officials to...
This year’s BRICS leaders’ summit was relatively subdued compared with recent meetings of the bloc, which underwent a rapid expansion and recently...
This may be crunch week for U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to remake the global trading order, with a self-imposed July 9 deadline to reach...
MORE ON THIS TOPIC Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visiting the White House, the...
Analysis and updates Since the late 1960s, the United States and its allies have supported a robust nonproliferation regime to prevent the spread...