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Why Biden Is Going After Russian Energy Now?

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Keith Johnson

Lebanon Elects a New President—Finally

Lebanon Elects a New President—Finally

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Lebanon’s new head of state, destructive wildfires in Los Angeles County, and a deadly attack...

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Alexandra Sharp

Mark Zuckerberg’s Geopolitical Free Speech Gambit

Mark Zuckerberg’s Geopolitical Free Speech Gambit

Earlier this week, the day after Donald Trump’s 2024 U.S. presidential election win was formally certified by the Senate, Meta CEO Mark...

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Rishi Iyengar

Russia Is Stepping Up Its Covert War Beyond Ukraine

Russia Is Stepping Up Its Covert War Beyond Ukraine

Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic Over the past three years, Russia has waged an increasingly brazen campaign of sabotage...

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Bart Schuurman

What if Hamas Doesn’t Release the Hostages by Trump’s Inauguration?

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John Haltiwanger

Can the World Do Anything About Conflict in 2025?

Can the World Do Anything About Conflict in 2025?

Prefer to listen?   Follow the FP Live podcast for the entire conversation, plus other in-depth discussions, wherever you get your podcasts. The...

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Ravi Agrawal

The Novels We’re Reading in January

The Novels We’re Reading in January

To kick off the year, we’re reading novels in translation that explore gender, race, and class in East Asia past and present. Gu Byeong-mo, trans....

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Chloe Hadavas

Europe Is Still Trying to Pretend Putin’s Threat Isn’t Real

Europe Is Still Trying to Pretend Putin’s Threat Isn’t Real

Long before Donald Trump’s first presidency, NATO's leadership was already seriously concerned by Europe’s piecemeal approach to defense. The...

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Luke Mcgee

When the World Closed Its Doors

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Edward Alden

What in the World?

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Syd Kuntz

What Cancel Culture Was and Wasn’t

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Gregory Jones-Katz

Maduro Readies for a Third Term With Repression

Maduro Readies for a Third Term With Repression

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro is set to be inaugurated for a third...

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Catherine Osborn

Team Biden’s Farewell Tour

Team Biden’s Farewell Tour

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where the chilly winter weather brings to mind that of America’s future 51st state: Greenland....

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Amy Mackinnon

Foreign Leaders Lambast Trump Over His Expansionist Policies

Foreign Leaders Lambast Trump Over His Expansionist Policies

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s latest foreign-policy goals, Lebanon’s presidential...

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Alexandra Sharp

Trudeau’s Long Premiership Was Hollow at the Core

Trudeau’s Long Premiership Was Hollow at the Core

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, dean of the G-7, has outlived a lot. His tenure has coincided with the terms of two French presidents; four...

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Justin Ling

Why Is Trump So Obsessed With Greenland?

Why Is Trump So Obsessed With Greenland?

The island of Greenland isn’t on the market, but that’s never stopped U.S. President-elect Donald Trump from trying to acquire the prime piece of...

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Christina Lu

Biden May Have Scuttled More Than Just A Steel Takeover

Biden May Have Scuttled More Than Just A Steel Takeover

Outgoing U.S. President Joe Biden’s eleventh-hour block of the nearly $15 billion bid by Nippon Steel to purchase U.S. Steel, while long expected...

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Keith Johnson

Why Gaza Is Israel’s Forever War

Why Gaza Is Israel’s Forever War

One year since the Oct. 7 attack MORE ON THIS TOPIC Not many Israelis are looking forward to another year of war in Gaza. The army brass and the...

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David E. Rosenberg

The U.S. Should Not Politicize LNG Exports

The U.S. Should Not Politicize LNG Exports

While children’s Christmas fears have traditionally been reserved for lumps of coal, it was natural gas that may have frightened many people...

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Jason Bordoff

The Global Right Is Fighting Against Real Families

The Global Right Is Fighting Against Real Families

Happy families are all different, but nationalists want them all to be alike. A coercive vision of the family as the bedrock of the nation—and of...

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Alan Elrod

When the Press Stood Up to the President

When the Press Stood Up to the President

The Fourth Estate is under threat. In just a few weeks, the national media will be confronting a U.S. president-elect, Donald Trump, with an...

08.01.2025 2

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Julian E. Zelizer

Russian Assets Are Europe’s Trump Card

Russian Assets Are Europe’s Trump Card

Understanding the conflict two years on. More on this topic U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s ambition to end Russia’s war on Ukraine has...

08.01.2025 1

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Adrian Karatnycky

This Trump Administration Is Shaping Up to Be Latin America-First

This Trump Administration Is Shaping Up to Be Latin America-First

One of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s most lasting slogans of governance is that “personnel is policy.” Judged using Reagan’s mantra,...

08.01.2025 1

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Ryan C. Berg

Only Trump Can Go to Tehran

Only Trump Can Go to Tehran

When preparing for his historic trip to China in 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon made handwritten notes. Among them were scribblings under the...

08.01.2025 2

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Sina Azodi

The U.N.’s Magical Thinking About Trump’s Return

The U.N.’s Magical Thinking About Trump’s Return

In 2019, when the 15 ambassadors on the United Nations Security Council traveled to Washington for lunch with U.S. President Donald Trump, they...

08.01.2025 1

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Stéphanie Fillion

Why is the EU Turning a Blind Eye to Bulgaria’s Anti-LGBTQ Law?

Why is the EU Turning a Blind Eye to Bulgaria’s Anti-LGBTQ Law?

In a matter of hours last August, Bulgarian legislators rushed through changes to the country’s national education act to ban so-called LGBTQ “...

08.01.2025 1

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Ashira Morris

The Biden Administration Pursues Last-Minute Diplomacy With India

The Biden Administration Pursues Last-Minute Diplomacy With India

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan makes an eleventh-hour trip...

08.01.2025 2

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Michael Kugelman

A User’s Guide to ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’

A User’s Guide to ‘Who Lost Ukraine?’

No one knows exactly how or when Russia’s war in Ukraine will end, but the terms are likely to be disappointing to Kyiv and its Western supporters....

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Stephen M. Walt

Do Syrian Refugees Still Exist?

Do Syrian Refugees Still Exist?

More than a dozen European countries have suspended asylum applications of Syrian nationals since Islamist rebels ousted Syrian President Bashar...

08.01.2025 1

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Anchal Vohra

What to Watch in Africa in 2025

What to Watch in Africa in 2025

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this year: Geopolitical competition comes to the Sahel, South Africa takes the helm of the...

08.01.2025 1

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Nosmot Gbadamosi

The Case Against Benjamin Netanyahu

The Case Against Benjamin Netanyahu

One year since the Oct. 7 attack MORE ON THIS TOPIC It will come as no surprise that The Bibi Files by Alexis Bloom and Alex Gibney is an extremely...

08.01.2025 1

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Chuck Freilich

How Trump Could Strike a Trade Deal With China

How Trump Could Strike a Trade Deal With China

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened tariff hikes on the United States’ largest trading partners, but China seems to be in the most...

08.01.2025 1

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Wendy Cutler

The U.S. Can’t Afford to Be a Bad Neighbor

The U.S. Can’t Afford to Be a Bad Neighbor

Among the many things that U.S. President-elect Donald Trump stands to learn upon returning to office is that his visions of outright U.S....

07.01.2025 2

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Howard W. French

Salt Typhoon Stirs Panic in Washington

Salt Typhoon Stirs Panic in Washington

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Panic grows in Washington about the Salt Typhoon hack of U.S....

07.01.2025 3

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James Palmer

Does the Madman Theory Actually Work?

Does the Madman Theory Actually Work?

This article appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. When Donald Trump first ran for U.S. president in 2016, he sounded mad an...

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Daniel W. Drezner

America Is Locked in a New Class War

America Is Locked in a New Class War

This article appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Exit polls from the U.S. presidential election indicated an approximate...

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Adam Tooze

How the Bulldozer Became a Symbol of Modi’s India

Ordinary artifacts at the center of foreign policy More from this series Bulldozers are ubiquitous on construction sites the world over. But in...

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Ambreen Agha

Trump Is Ushering in a More Transactional World

This article appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Donald Trump is commonly described as transactional. At some level,...

07.01.2025 3

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Ravi Agrawal

Isolationism Won’t Make Anyone Great Again

This article appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Donald Trump’s reelection as U.S. president is sending shockwaves around...

07.01.2025 2

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Raghuram Rajan

Jean-Marie Le Pen Embodied France’s Dark Side

Jean-Marie Le Pen Embodied France’s Dark Side

In February 1984, Jean-Marie Le Pen appeared for the first time on France’s biggest political TV show, L'Heure de Vérité (The Hour of Truth)....

07.01.2025 1

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Michele Barbero

Deadly 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Tibet

Deadly 7.1 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Tibet

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at search-and-rescue operations in Tibet, an extended arrest warrant for South Korean President...

07.01.2025 10

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Alexandra Sharp

Canada’s Trudeau Announces Intention to Resign as Prime Minister

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a change in leadership for Canada, North Korean missile tests amid South Korea’s political...

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Alexandra Sharp

Why Biden’s Foreign Policy Fell Short

This article appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. At its inception, the Biden administration proudly declared that “America...

06.01.2025 10

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Kori Schake

Indonesia’s Nickel Business Is Boosting Development and Ruining Lives

Indonesia’s Nickel Business Is Boosting Development and Ruining Lives

Even after 33 days in the hospital, eight operations, and more than a year of recovery, La-Taha still does not have full use of his hand. Burns...

06.01.2025 2

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Joseph Rachman

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