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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...
Earlier this week, the day after Donald Trump’s 2024 U.S. presidential election win was formally certified by the Senate, Meta CEO Mark...
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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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....
Long before Donald Trump’s first presidency, NATO's leadership was already seriously concerned by Europe’s piecemeal approach to defense. The...
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...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where the chilly winter weather brings to mind that of America’s future 51st state: Greenland....
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s latest foreign-policy goals, Lebanon’s presidential...
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...
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...
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...
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...
While children’s Christmas fears have traditionally been reserved for lumps of coal, it was natural gas that may have frightened many people...
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...
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...
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...
One of former U.S. President Ronald Reagan’s most lasting slogans of governance is that “personnel is policy.” Judged using Reagan’s mantra,...
When preparing for his historic trip to China in 1972, U.S. President Richard Nixon made handwritten notes. Among them were scribblings under the...
In 2019, when the 15 ambassadors on the United Nations Security Council traveled to Washington for lunch with U.S. President Donald Trump, they...
In a matter of hours last August, Bulgarian legislators rushed through changes to the country’s national education act to ban so-called LGBTQ “...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan makes an eleventh-hour trip...
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....
More than a dozen European countries have suspended asylum applications of Syrian nationals since Islamist rebels ousted Syrian President Bashar...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this year: Geopolitical competition comes to the Sahel, South Africa takes the helm of the...
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...
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...
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....
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: Panic grows in Washington about the Salt Typhoon hack of U.S....
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...
This article appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Exit polls from the U.S. presidential election indicated an approximate...
Ordinary artifacts at the center of foreign policy More from this series Bulldozers are ubiquitous on construction sites the world over. But in...
This article appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Donald Trump is commonly described as transactional. At some level,...
This article appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. Donald Trump’s reelection as U.S. president is sending shockwaves around...
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)....
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at search-and-rescue operations in Tibet, an extended arrest warrant for South Korean President...
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...
This article appears in the Winter 2025 issue of Foreign Policy magazine. At its inception, the Biden administration proudly declared that “America...
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...