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Foreign Policy
Dec 17, 2025

Trump Escalates Venezuela Pressure With Oil Tanker Blockade
Critics fear this is a step toward the United States declaring war on Caracas.

Foreign Policy
Dec 17, 2025

Pete Hegseth Is Turning Political Theater Into Lethal Force
The U.S. is killing for the sake of spectacle.

Foreign Policy
Dec 17, 2025

How to Keep Gaza's Recovery From Becoming an 80-Year Project
The coming year will determine whether the territory's recovery can break the region's cycle of violence.

Foreign Policy
Dec 17, 2025

Key Figure to Return for Bangladesh Elections
The long-exiled Tarique Rahman will arrive ahead of a likely tense February vote.

Foreign Policy
Dec 17, 2025

As Famine Worsens in Sudan, Aid Cuts Loom
The WFP says that it is forced to reduce rations to "the absolute minimum for survival."

Foreign Policy
Dec 17, 2025

South Asian States Seek Cooperation—Without India
A proposed Bangladesh-China-Pakistan nexus could raise concerns in New Delhi.

Foreign Policy
Dec 17, 2025

Trump Announces Blockade on Sanctioned Oil Tankers to and From Venezuela
Choking off oil flows could be a backbreaker for President Nicolás Maduro's rule.

Foreign Policy
Dec 17, 2025

Abundance as a Foreign Policy
The West's new movement to revive liberalism still lacks an international agenda.

Foreign Policy
Dec 16, 2025

Who Will Pay for Russian-Caused Damages in Ukraine?
A coalition of more than 30 countries has approved a compensation body for assessing Ukrainian reparation claims.

Foreign Policy
Dec 16, 2025

What's It Like to Be a Chinese Soldier?
Behind the parades, recruits face long deployments, strict rules, and limited opportunities.

Foreign Policy
Dec 16, 2025

Japan's Prime Minister Takes on Bond Market Vigilantes
Sanae Takaichi's massive spending program could be a risky political win.

Foreign Policy
Dec 16, 2025

Europe Is Racing the Clock to Tap Russia's Frozen Assets
Brussels is trying to convince holdouts to support a novel plan to use billions of Moscow's money to aid Ukraine.

Foreign Policy
Dec 16, 2025

One Year on, U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Syria's Recovery
Short-term waivers are a start, but Congress must act on the full repeal Syria needs to rebuild.

Foreign Policy
Dec 16, 2025

Congress Aims to Turbocharge the U.S. Development Finance Corporation
The agency will be empowered to issue hundreds of billions of dollars in new loans to foreign countries.

Foreign Policy
Dec 16, 2025

The Trump Administration's Epochal Shift on Foreign Aid
The change to funding governments instead of NGOs is long overdue but could easily go wrong.

Foreign Policy
Dec 16, 2025

‘Collective Security' Is on Life Support
A basic concept of international relations is under unprecedented strain.

Foreign Policy
Dec 16, 2025

Southeast Asia's Year in Review
Tracking the region's biggest developments in 2025.

Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2025

Albanese Denounces ‘Antisemitic Terrorism' in Bondi Beach Mass Shooting
Australia has vowed to tighten gun laws to combat rising antisemitism.

Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2025

Does the Road to Disarming Hamas Lead Through Qatar and Turkey?
Diplomats and experts say Doha and Ankara have leverage, but it may not be enough.

Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2025

Congress Is Recommitting to Resilience
But the NDAA can only do so much when the president won't help.

Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2025

Beware of Trump's Global Broligarchy
The president's pay-to-play mentality is undermining U.S. foreign policy.

Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2025

Trump's Business Model Is to Break Europe
Washington wants a free hand for Silicon Valley and Russia investment. The EU is an obstacle—and the far right is an ally.

Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2025

The Death—and Rebirth—of Science Diplomacy
Once a vehicle for global cooperation, international science has become a high-stakes arena of geopolitical rivalry.

Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2025

Iran Has a New Moral Order
The Islamic republic no longer controls the symbolic universe that once anchored its legitimacy.

Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2025

What Chile's New President Means for the World
José Kast's right-wing agenda has implications far beyond Chile's borders.

Foreign Policy
Dec 15, 2025

Are the Drug Boat Killings Trump's Vietnam Moment?
One senator's investigation into Lyndon Johnson's expanding war was a turning point.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

Thai Parliament Dissolves to Head Off No-Confidence Vote
Triggering snap elections raises the specter of more political turmoil amid deadly clashes with Cambodia.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

What to Make of China's Trade Surplus
The imbalance raises questions about the global economy and Trump administration policy.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

What Happens to China's Surplus Men?
The one-child policy's gender imbalance has spawned desperate bachelors, dubious gurus, and a rising manosphere.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

The Nvidia Chip Deal Is a National Security Disaster Waiting to Happen
Trump's latest proposal would cede the United States' AI advantage.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

Soccer Still Has Some Explaining to Do
Re-read today, Franklin Foer's 2004 classic inadvertently suggests where globalization went wrong.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

A Tale of Two Asylum-Seekers
"Souleymane's Story" interrogates the fictions we tell ourselves about what makes an acceptable migrant.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

Russia Sees the Former Soviet Union as a ‘Fiefdom,' Moldova's Foreign Minister Says
The foreign minister also said if anyone can bring peace to the region, it's U.S. President Donald Trump.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

U.S. Diplomats Take Trump to Court Over Mass Firings
The U.S. Foreign Service officers union seeks an injunction to prevent nearly 250 terminations.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

Germany Loves to Hate Friedrich Merz
Germany's chancellor is doing far better than everyone seems to think.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

Pakistan's 27th Amendment Upends Its Nuclear Command
A constitutional reform throws restraint, deterrence, and regional stability into question.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

The Welfare State Saved Capitalism. Now It Can Save European Democracy.
A growing skepticism of social spending risks undermining a post-war pillar of Europe's stability.

Foreign Policy
Dec 12, 2025

USMCA Deal Comes up for Review
Trump has kept Canada and Mexico guessing about whether he will renew the trade agreement.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

The Challenges of Providing Humanitarian Aid
Organizations working in Gaza and Sudan say their jobs have become harder than ever.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

Trump Ramps Up the Pressure on Maduro
The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker near Venezuela marks a new escalation in the White House's regime-change ambitions.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

Trump Accelerates U.S. Pressure Campaign on Venezuela
The U.S. seizure of an oil tanker near Venezuela marks a new escalation in the White House's regime-change ambitions.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

Putin's Already Won
He's exposed fatal divisions in the "West" even as Russians still back his Ukraine invasion.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

Putin Has Already Won
He's exposed fatal divisions in the "West" even as Russians still back his Ukraine invasion.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

Trump's National Security Strategy Is a Blueprint for the Demise of the West
The White House's agenda may not be coherent, but it is deeply dangerous.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

Two Cheers for the National Security Strategy
Trump's new document gets much right and a few things wrong.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

The Geopolitics of Sovereign Wealth Funds
Countries like Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates are investing capital right when the world values geopolitical swing states.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

Russia's Blackout Warfare Needs a U.S. Counter
Deterring Moscow's assault on Ukraine's energy will pay off across Europe.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

Nuclear Policy Must Learn to Live With Disagreement
From climate to AI, other fields have bridged deep divides.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

Three Lessons China Learned from the United States
America's greatest export was never democracy or consumer culture. It was the template for global power itself.

Foreign Policy
Dec 11, 2025

3 Lessons China Learned From the United States
America's greatest export was never democracy or consumer culture. It was the template for global power itself.

Foreign Policy
Dec 10, 2025

200,000 Flee Congo After Trump's ‘Historic' Peace Deal
Why the Rwanda-Congo accord misses the point.

Foreign Policy
Dec 10, 2025

Where Do U.S.-India Ties Stand?
Officials still seem to be working toward a trade deal, but it won't be a silver bullet.

Foreign Policy
Dec 10, 2025

How Far Will Trump's Pressure Campaign Against the ICC Go?
The White House wants the court to alter the Rome Statute so Trump and his officials can't be prosecuted.

Foreign Policy
Dec 10, 2025

Trump's Pressure Campaign Against the ICC Reaches New Heights
The White House wants the court to alter the Rome Statute so Trump and his officials can't be prosecuted.

Foreign Policy
Dec 10, 2025

The Muslim Brotherhood Still Isn't a Terrorist Organization
Naming it one will only bolster repression in the Middle East and the United States.

Foreign Policy
Dec 10, 2025

U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese Says There's No Cease-Fire in Gaza
"There is no peace without the end of the occupation," Albanese said.

Foreign Policy
Dec 10, 2025

Promises on Pause in Kashmir
Critics say the region's leader hasn't delivered on his defiant campaign rhetoric.

Foreign Policy
Dec 09, 2025

U.S. Farmers Aren't Out of the Woods Yet
Trump's bailout offers temporary relief, but trade war pain remains.

Foreign Policy
Dec 09, 2025

Zelensky Defies U.S. Pressure to Cede Territory to Russia
The White House has suggested that Moscow will likely win the Russia-Ukraine war.

Foreign Policy
Dec 09, 2025

Dirty Air Threatens India's Global Power
How New Delhi's pollution has become a more fundamental crisis.

Foreign Policy
Dec 09, 2025

A Bad Week for Washington's China Hawks
Trump's overtures to Beijing deal a blow to U.S. hard-liners.

Foreign Policy
Dec 09, 2025

Trump Threatens Mexico With Tariffs Over Water
Drought has dried up Mexico's water supply, much to the chagrin of Texas farmers—and Trump.

Foreign Policy
Dec 09, 2025

France Didn't Lose the Sahel—Everyone Did
Blaming Paris for Mali's problems won't solve them. A collective European response is needed.

Foreign Policy
Dec 09, 2025

Vietnam Tries to Escape the U.S.-China Trap
Hanoi has been quietly expanding partnerships beyond the Indo-Pacific.

Foreign Policy
Dec 09, 2025

Why Richard Nixon Killed National Child Care
The president's veto had to do with mounting opposition to his policy of detente.

Foreign Policy
Dec 08, 2025

Congress Moves to Restrain Trump in Annual Defense Policy Bill
The National Defense Authorization Act would limit Hegseth's ability to reduce U.S. troops in Europe and Asia, among other measures.

Foreign Policy
Dec 08, 2025

Deadly Clashes Upend Thailand-Cambodia Cease-Fire
Regional leaders warn that the decades-long feud could trigger widespread instability across Southeast Asia.

Foreign Policy
Dec 08, 2025

Why Indonesia's Not Out of the Flood Zone
The waters may have let up, but an aid crisis continues.

Foreign Policy
Dec 08, 2025

The Only War the White House Is Ready for Is Culture War
The new U.S. National Security Strategy is a moral and strategic disaster.

Foreign Policy
Dec 08, 2025

What the 2025 National Security Strategy Means for Asia
The MAGA revolution in U.S. foreign policy brings good news and bad.

Foreign Policy
Dec 08, 2025

Trump's New Corollary
The President's invocation of the Monroe Doctrine is rhetorically satisfying but carries real risks.

Foreign Policy
Dec 08, 2025

Mexican Climate Activists' Ambitions Are Crumbling
President Claudia Sheinbaum has eroded a key legal tool used to ensure environmental justice.

Foreign Policy
Dec 08, 2025

Hillary Clinton: ‘Congress Has Abdicated Its Responsibility'
The former U.S. secretary of state on Trump's foreign policy, Americans' shifting views on Israel, and the fight for women's rights.

Foreign Policy
Dec 08, 2025

Trump's Pivot to Pakistan
The South Asian nation has deployed a combination of flattery and strategy to get Washington on its side.

Foreign Policy
Dec 07, 2025

A World of Cons, Crooks, and Culprits
Where scam industries are thriving around the globe.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

Trump's New National Security Strategy Goes Full ‘America First'
The long-anticipated plan aims to selectively impose the U.S. president's worldview around the globe.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

Xi, Macron Seize Symbolic Victories in Unorthodox Summit
Both China and France hope to strengthen their images on the world stage amid growing isolationism.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

Biden's Long Shadow Over Ukraine
His administration failed Ukraine at almost every turn, shaping the war to this day.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

When the Democratic Recession Comes Home
Michael McFaul wants more democracy promotion. Is now the time?

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

A Kaleidoscopic Portrait of Women in Taiwan
"Left-Handed Girl," Taiwan's Oscar hopeful, offers a multifaceted view of women learning to live beyond shame.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

A Jekyll and Hyde for the Manosphere
"The Things You Kill" explores the pitfalls of masculinity in modern-day Turkey.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

A Jekyll and Hyde for the Manosphere Crowd
"The Things You Kill" explores the pitfalls of masculinity in modern-day Turkey.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

Two Unsettling Voyages Across the Sea
Plus, more international fiction releases in December.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

What in the World?
Test yourself on the week of Nov. 29: A disease outbreak ends in Congo, Trump pardons a former Honduran president, and the latest from Israel-Palestine.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

Does Europe Finally Realize It's Alone?
Washington's new National Security Strategy ratifies an adversarial relationship.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

Trump Has Many Options if the Supreme Court Strikes Down Tariffs
A weak Congress means a deep toolbox for the president.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

Trump Is Threatening His Own World Cup
Ongoing immigration raids risk the success of the global sporting event.

Foreign Policy
Dec 05, 2025

An AI Bust May Not Be All Bad News
The boom makes it hard for competitors to step away from a treadmill of continuous acceleration.

Foreign Policy
Dec 04, 2025

Election Drama Heats Up in Honduras
The country is the latest target of Trump's partisan interventions.

Foreign Policy
Dec 04, 2025

Pete Hegseth's Bad Week
The defense secretary is under scrutiny for a series of questionable decisions.

Foreign Policy
Dec 04, 2025

Modi Walks a Tightrope Between Putin and Trump
This week's meeting with Putin will test how well India can balance ties with Russia and the United States.

Foreign Policy
Dec 04, 2025

Silicon Valley Wants Disaster Bunkers. Norway Wants ‘Preparedness Friends.'
Norwegians are pioneering better models of catastrophe preparation.

Foreign Policy
Dec 04, 2025

Africa Was the Biggest Loser of China's COP30 Triumph
Decisions about the continent's future are being made in foreign capitals.

Foreign Policy
Dec 04, 2025

West Bank Violence Threatens Trump's Gaza Peace Plan
Rights groups say the Israeli government is complicit.

Foreign Policy
Dec 04, 2025

The U.S. Can't Talk to Its Neighbors Anymore
What the postponement of the Summit of the Americas reveals about regional relations.

Foreign Policy
Dec 03, 2025

The New Wealth of Nations
How instrumental capital is reshaping the world.

Foreign Policy
Dec 03, 2025

U.S. Suspends All Immigration Requests From 19 ‘High-Risk' Countries
Critics say the mandate is evidence of the Trump administration's xenophobic policies.

Foreign Policy
Dec 03, 2025

U.S. Issues Sweeping Immigration Crackdown on 19 Countries
Critics say the mandate is evidence of the Trump administration's xenophobic policies.

Foreign Policy
Dec 03, 2025

Mali's Junta Is the Architect of Its Own Disasters
Blaming foreign intervention is easy—but mistaken.

Foreign Policy
Dec 03, 2025

Putin Heads to New Delhi
The visit comes at a somewhat precarious moment for India-Russia relations.

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