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Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at violent clashes following a crucial vote in Uganda, new trade commitments between Canada and...
On Feb. 15, 1991, as coalition bombs fell on Iraq during Operation Desert Storm, President George H.W. Bush addressed the Iraqi people. “There is...
In the last week, the Islamic Republic perpetrated the greatest massacre in modern Iranian history. In response to massive popular protests against...
So blistering a critique of authoritarianism is Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel The Master and Margarita that it’s hard to imagine how Vladimir Putin’s...
When thinking about the political transition that’s so desperately needed in Iran, it’s useful to conduct a thought experiment: When have outside...
Reza Pahlavi was born in a time of tumult. His father, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, stood at one of the most traumatic junctures of his long reign,...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Cuban officials gird for possible U.S. intervention, the...
While the world was watching U.S. forces’ spectacular kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, dramatic happenings were unfolding in the...
On Tuesday, Jan. 20, Donald Trump will mark one year as the 47th president of the United States. Most observers agree that Trump 2.0 is markedly...
Ongoing reports and analysis Domestic politics and the prospect of Republicans losing their monopoly over government in Washington are likely to...
In another era, the kidnapping rendition of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro might have consumed headlines for weeks. Amid the most frenetic...
There is no shortage of domestic and international crises right now, and it can be difficult to fully understand everything that’s happening. In...
Have feedback? Email [email protected] to let me know your thoughts. 1. U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell issued a video message on Sunday...
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Ongoing reports and analysis ELIM, Alaska—Roughly 120 miles south of the Arctic Circle, this Inupiaq village stands between mountains and the...
The thought experiment is simple enough to be taught to undergraduates and troubling enough to haunt adults. You are walking past a shallow pond...
For years now, Europe has been caricatured as too divided to act, too lethargic to decide, too comfortable to think strategically. Yet over the...
In a Washington Post op-ed last November, Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te committed his country to raising defense spending from roughly 2.4...
Ongoing reports and analysis The U.S. Senate narrowly voted Wednesday night to strip a bipartisan resolution aimed at preventing unauthorized...
The Danish foreign minister fist-bumped his ambassador and then rushed up to Greenland’s foreign minister and lit her cigarette. They had just met...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Europe deploying troops to Greenland, a deadly U.S. immigration crackdown in Minnesota, and...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Pakistan ups its engagement in the Middle East, new U.S. ambassadors to...
On Jan. 1, Bulgaria became the eurozone’s 21st member when it gave up its 145-year-old currency, the lev, for the euro. In Sofia and Brussels, this...
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. John is flying solo this week as Rishi enjoys some much-deserved time off, but he’s received...
Ongoing reports and analysis The United States spent decades condemning spheres of influence as archaic relics of a darker age. Now it’s claiming...
Analysis and updates Iran is once again on fire. For the better part of the last month, Iranians have been taking to the streets in large numbers...
Ongoing reports and analysis The chances of American and perhaps Israeli airstrikes on Iran appear to be rising, ostensibly in support of the...
Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump spent the first year of his second term blurring the lines between government and business...
Ongoing reports and analysis Last December, U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles summed up the “alpha ” mindset of U.S. foreign policy by declaring that the United...
Ongoing reports and analysis The Trump administration’s release of a new U.S. National Security Strategy (NSS) last month has provoked two basic...
Over the past year, Russia has watched pillars of its external authoritarian ecosystem erode. Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s collapse stripped...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Analysts raise questions about the official White House narrative behind recent...
Elon Musk is in international hot waters. In December, X—formerly Twitter—updated Grok, its generative artificial intelligence (AI) model, with a...
Ongoing reports and analysis The Trump administration on Wednesday announced that it was indefinitely freezing immigrant visa processing for nearly...
KIRUMBA, Democratic Republic of the Congo—In the courtyard of a small Catholic church in Kirumba, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s...
Last Friday, the European Union green-lit a trade agreement with the South American customs union Mercosur. The deal paves the way for the creation...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Iran’s policy of executing protesters, U.S. ambitions to annex Greenland, and China’s massive...
Years ago, while researching a book about a rising China’s self-image as a global power, I came across a parable about the risks of sudden and...
Last week, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) said they had successfully disarmed Hezbollah in the southern part of the country, covering the area...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China condemns U.S. President Donald Trump’s justification for seizing...
Ongoing reports and analysis Last week, President Donald Trump announced his intent to withdraw the United States from 66 separate multilateral...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Iran’s response to domestic protests, the Trump administration’s pressure campaign on the U.S....
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at how the Japan-China rift is impacting South Korea, potential U.S. intervention over Iran’s...
The argument against the White House’s actions in Venezuela has been aired out extensively in these pages. Critics contend that the capture of...
Ongoing reports and analysis The U.S. economy, after a tumultuous year of tariffs and trade wars, appears to have performed better than feared...
For more than a year, Serbia has been gripped by an unbroken chain of marches, blockades, campus sit-ins, and mass demonstrations. Revolts first...
One morning last November, Bee Kyal’s phone pinged with a message about a fighter jet taking off from a military base in central Myanmar’s rural...
I study political violence—particularly how both emerging technologies and mundane tools can be weaponized. For more than a decade, I have analyzed...
Rarely have so few done so much to unsettle so many. Over the past few months, political and military leaders in France, with their eyes fastened...
Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. Senate and House negotiators on Sunday night jointly released the overdue text for the fiscal 2026 foreign aid...
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