The year’s best stories

U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term has created a dilemma for many U.S. media outlets. He looms so large in daily life—with his frequent policy pronouncements, attention-grabbing press conferences, and constant missives on social media—that it’s hard to focus on anything else. Even at Foreign Policy, which covers the entire world, Trump is the elephant in the newsroom.

Ones and Tooze, FP’s economics podcast, confronted that same dilemma this year. For the first third of 2025, most of our episodes focused on the Trump administration. Throughout the year, co-hosts Cameron Abadi and Adam Tooze covered the core issues of the day with rigor—including, yes, Trump’s policies, but also China’s rising power and the changing landscape of artificial intelligence.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s second term has created a dilemma for many U.S. media outlets. He looms so large in daily life—with his frequent policy pronouncements, attention-grabbing press conferences, and constant missives on social media—that it’s hard to focus on anything else. Even at........

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