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What Would a Military Strike on Iran Mean for the Middle East?

What Would a Military Strike on Iran Mean for the Middle East?

Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump has alternated between making threats and suggesting negotiations with Iran. His proposal...

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Mahsa Rouhi

Seizing Russian Assets Isn’t as Easy as It Sounds

Seizing Russian Assets Isn’t as Easy as It Sounds

Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic The United States’ shocking turn against Ukraine has finally brought Europe’s...

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Charles Lichfield

Deadly 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Myanmar

Deadly 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Rocks Myanmar

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Myanmar’s deadly earthquake, Israel’s strikes on Beirut, and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete...

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Anusha Rathi

Chris Murphy: ‘American Credibility Is Destroyed’

Chris Murphy: ‘American Credibility Is Destroyed’

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

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Ravi Agrawal

U.S. Delegation Visits Greenland Amid Trump Pressure Campaign

U.S. Delegation Visits Greenland Amid Trump Pressure Campaign

Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. President Donald Trump’s yearslong obsession with acquiring Greenland sparked fresh and intense backlash this...

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Christina Lu

Trump and the Business of Big Law

Trump and the Business of Big Law

Prefer to listen? To hear this entire conversation, and more episodes in the weeks ahead, follow Ones and Tooze wherever you get your podcasts. The...

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Cameron Abadi

What in the World?

What in the World?

Have feedback? Email [email protected] to let me know your thoughts. 1. Why did Germany’s Foreign Office temporarily close its embassy in South...

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Drew Gorman

Brazil Pivots to Asia

Brazil Pivots to Asia

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Latin America Brief. The highlights this week: Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visits Japan and...

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Catherine Osborn

How the Signal Chat Leak Makes the NSA’s Job Harder

How the Signal Chat Leak Makes the NSA’s Job Harder

U.S. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a U.S. attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on...

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Bruce Schneier

Canada’s Border Is There for a Reason

Canada’s Border Is There for a Reason

Ongoing reports and analysis Only a decade ago, U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent comments on Canada would have read as a deliberate parody of...

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Nick Danforth

What Washington Keeps Getting Wrong in War Planning

What Washington Keeps Getting Wrong in War Planning

Understanding the conflict three years on. More on this topic As the world observed Russia preparing to invade Ukraine in early 2022, the most...

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Andrew L. Stigler

The Latino Far Right Is Living in a MAGA Fantasy

The Latino Far Right Is Living in a MAGA Fantasy

In the 1980s, when I was in the sixth grade, my family moved from Brownsville, Texas, to a small town in central Kansas. My father had enrolled in...

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Felipe Hinojosa

Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Taps Into the Latest Moral Panic

Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Taps Into the Latest Moral Panic

Near the start of Netflix’s Adolescence, a terrified child sits up in bed after his arrest at gunpoint by a police team. He has wet himself in...

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James Palmer

Trump’s Proposed Auto Tariffs Plunge Wall Street, Foreign Markets Into Turmoil

Trump’s Proposed Auto Tariffs Plunge Wall Street, Foreign Markets Into Turmoil

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the White House’s latest trade measure, European commitments to Kyiv, and a potential turning...

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Alexandra Sharp

Trump’s Intelligence Community Outlines Top Global Threats

Trump’s Intelligence Community Outlines Top Global Threats

Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report. It has been a whirlwind of a week thanks to Signalgate—the group chat heard around the world....

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John Haltiwanger

A New Marshall Plan for Gaza

MORE ON THIS TOPIC The Arab League meeting in Cairo on March 4 intended to deliver a formal response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for...

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Michael Sharnoff

Tigray Needs Justice for Peace to Hold

The “forgotten” war in Tigray, Ethiopia, between 2020 and 2022 claimed the lives of more than 200,000 soldiers and up to 400,000 civilians....

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Azeem Ibrahim

China Won’t Be the Obvious Winner in Latin America

China Won’t Be the Obvious Winner in Latin America

The second Trump administration has spent much of its early months focused on Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). This makes good sense, given...

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Ryan C. Berg

Israel Is Escalating Its War in Syria

Israel Is Escalating Its War in Syria

In the past six weeks, the Israeli military has launched at least 70 ground incursions into southwestern Syria and conducted at least 31 sets of...

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Charles Lister

Trump Aid Cuts Threaten Myanmar’s Youth

Trump Aid Cuts Threaten Myanmar’s Youth

Ongoing reports and analysis When U.S. President Donald Trump wanted to single out a case of supposedly wasteful federal government spending, he...

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Joe Freeman

Britain Is Banking on the Special Relationship to Stave Off Trump’s Tariffs

Britain Is Banking on the Special Relationship to Stave Off Trump’s Tariffs

Ongoing reports and analysis The United Kingdom, as it was in the years after Brexit, is caught between the lure of the United States and the...

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Keith Johnson

Signalgate Triggers Calls for Trump Cabinet Resignations

Signalgate Triggers Calls for Trump Cabinet Resignations

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the major national security breach consuming Washington, large anti-Hamas protests in Gaza, and...

26.03.2025 3

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Alexandra Sharp

5 Key Questions About Signalgate

5 Key Questions About Signalgate

Ongoing reports and analysis Heads are still spinning in Washington in the wake of journalist Jeffrey Goldberg’s bombshell report in the Atlantic...

26.03.2025 10

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John Haltiwanger

Trump Quietly Ups U.S. Engagement With the Taliban

Trump Quietly Ups U.S. Engagement With the Taliban

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: The Taliban release a U.S. citizen from captivity as U.S. officials visit...

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Michael Kugelman

Europe Wonders if Trump Can Be Bought Off With Arctic Concessions

U.S. President Donald Trump’s hectic return to office has left America’s European allies scratching their heads. His opinions on NATO, the European...

26.03.2025 6

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Luke Mcgee

We Need the Voice of America Now More Than Ever

We Need the Voice of America Now More Than Ever

Ongoing reports and analysis On April 24, 1949, U.S. diplomats in Moscow reported something alarming: Soviet authorities were deliberately blocking...

26.03.2025 3

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Jeanne Shaheen

Nigeria’s Missed #MeToo Moment

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Tensions escalate in South Sudan, Namibia’s new president trims her cabinet,...

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Nosmot Gbadamosi

The Lessons Not Learned From COVID-19

Ongoing reports and analysis We had great hope that real change would spring from the COVID-19 pandemic. After all, tragedies—whether it’s a...

26.03.2025 2

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

How the U.S. Can Fight for Georgia’s Democracy

Georgia, which sits at the intersection of Europe and Asia, was once considered a bastion of democracy in the region, but lately it has been forced...

26.03.2025 3

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Amrit Singh

Europe Needs a Complete Strategic Reboot

Europe Needs a Complete Strategic Reboot

Two statements by European leaders put side by side capture the essence of the European dilemma today. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

26.03.2025 1

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Kishore Mahbubani

Erdogan Is Trying to Divide and Conquer Turkey’s Opposition

Erdogan Is Trying to Divide and Conquer Turkey’s Opposition

On March 19, Ekrem Imamoglu—the mayor of Istanbul and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main rival—was detained by police in a dawn raid; he...

26.03.2025 1

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Halil Karaveli

Europe Should Dust Off Multilateral Nuclear Plans

Europe Should Dust Off Multilateral Nuclear Plans

For 75 years, America’s NATO allies have relied on the U.S. nuclear arsenal to provide for the defense of Europe. This was never a terribly logical...

26.03.2025 2

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Michael John Williams

The U.S. Judicial Crisis Is Uniquely Dangerous

The U.S. Judicial Crisis Is Uniquely Dangerous

Ongoing reports and analysis Just two months in, U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is aggressively challenging judicial constraints on...

26.03.2025 2

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Andrew O’Donohue

America Is Listing in a Gathering Storm

Geopolitical storm clouds are gathering at the far reaches of Pax Americana, and yet there is remarkably little sign that the U.S. government or...

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James Kitfield

Denmark Blasts Upcoming U.S. Visit to Greenland as ‘Unacceptable’

Denmark Blasts Upcoming U.S. Visit to Greenland as ‘Unacceptable’

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at an upcoming U.S. trip to Greenland, Russia and Ukraine agreeing in principle to Black Sea...

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Alexandra Sharp

How Modi and Trump Treat Billionaires Differently

How Modi and Trump Treat Billionaires Differently

This article appears in the Spring 2025 print issue of FP. Read more from the issue. This article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Foreign...

25.03.2025 2

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James Crabtree

Elon Musk’s First Principles

Elon Musk’s First Principles

Ongoing reports and analysis Elon Musk is the richest person in the world—one of the richest in history. But Musk’s power is no longer just tied to...

25.03.2025 2

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Adam Tooze

The Deep Roots of Oligarchy

The Deep Roots of Oligarchy

This article appears in the Spring 2025 print issue of FP. Read more from the issue. This article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Foreign...

25.03.2025 3

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Priya Satia

Did China Get Billionaires Right?

Did China Get Billionaires Right?

This article appears in the Spring 2025 print issue of FP. Read more from the issue. This article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Foreign...

25.03.2025 2

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James Palmer

The Shape-Shifting MAGA Hat

The Shape-Shifting MAGA Hat

Ordinary artifacts at the center of foreign policy More from this series On July 23, 2015, just over a month into his first presidential campaign,...

25.03.2025 3

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Megan Dubois

Turkey Can’t Live With, or Without, Erdogan

Turkey Can’t Live With, or Without, Erdogan

It is hard to pinpoint exactly when Recep Tayyip Erdogan slipped from the supreme self-confidence of successful politicians to narcissistic hubris....

25.03.2025 7

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Steven A. Cook

Is America a Kleptocracy?

Is America a Kleptocracy?

This article appears in the Spring 2025 print issue of FP. Read more from the issue. This article appears in the Spring 2025 issue of Foreign...

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Jodi Vittori

Russia’s Dangerous Facts on Ukraine’s Ground

Russia’s Dangerous Facts on Ukraine’s Ground

The weaponry used in the Russia-Ukraine war has been modern, but land remains the conflict’s most valuable strategic asset. And for Russia, the...

25.03.2025 1

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Michael Albertus

U.S. Cybersecurity Weakness Benefits China

U.S. Cybersecurity Weakness Benefits China

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The Trump administration’s group chat breach reflects how the United States...

25.03.2025 5

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James Palmer

The Western Balkans’ Emerging Voice in NATO

The Western Balkans’ Emerging Voice in NATO

On April 27, 2017, Radmila Shekerinska endured the darkest day of her political career. During her tenure as a lawmaker with North Macedonia’s...

25.03.2025 2

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Bojan Stojkovski

Senators Grill CIA and National Intelligence Directors on Signal Group Chat Fiasco

Senators Grill CIA and National Intelligence Directors on Signal Group Chat Fiasco

Ongoing reports and analysis U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday grilled Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe on...

25.03.2025 3

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Rishi Iyengar

Is Iran’s Regime About to Go the Way of Syria’s?

Is Iran’s Regime About to Go the Way of Syria’s?

In 1979, when the Islamic Republic was established in Iran, the new clerical regime enjoyed broad popular support across Iranian society. It would...

25.03.2025 2

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Saeid Golkar

How Oct. 7 Changed Israel’s Security Doctrine

How Oct. 7 Changed Israel’s Security Doctrine

For Israel, the Hamas attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, changed many things. But perhaps the most striking result has been a new definition of border...

25.03.2025 1

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Aaron David Miller

U.S. Airstrikes Alone Can’t Dislodge the Houthis

Almost 18 months after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, the Middle East looks decidedly different. The Assad regime, which ruled Syria brutally...

25.03.2025 1

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Eitan Danon

Are CEOs Turning Against Trump?

Are CEOs Turning Against Trump?

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

25.03.2025 10

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Ravi Agrawal