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![Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he is rushed offstage during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, blood on his face.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/trump-shooting-GettyImages-2161923146.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
When It Comes to Political Violence, America Is Not Exceptional
The attempt to kill Donald Trump should be a chilling reminder of how easy it is to trigger a lethal U.S. tradition.
![A protestor is seen outside the U.S. Capitol holding an American flag, surrounded by smoke.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1-america-forever-war-excerpt-GettyImages-1230448940.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
America’s Democracy Was Never That Healthy
Since its founding, the country has been in a perpetual state of division.
![Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and others listen as U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the closing ceremony of the NATO summit in Washington.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Biden-zelensky-nato-GettyImages-2161052242.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Biden Press Conference Overshadowed End of NATO Summit
The president’s remarks on foreign policy became a Rorschach test for allies and experts.
![Trump stands with his eyes closed in a suit with a red tie, before a banner that reads "CNN."](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Trump-Biden-presidential-debate-GettyImages-2158937107.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Biden’s Age Is a Problem. Trump’s Agenda Is a Bigger One.
The media has a duty to examine the president’s fumbles—but not at the expense of the larger picture.
![Students from Massachusetts of Technology, Harvard University and others rally at a protest encampment on April 22, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/gaza-protest-boston-GettyImages-2148017703.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Will Democrats Take Black Voters Seriously on Foreign Policy?
Vice President Kamala Harris and the NAACP have gone further than Biden on Gaza, because they’re aware of simmering discontent among a crucial constituency.
![Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin walk in front of a large crowd.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/nato-xi-putin-russia-china-GettyImages-2152786411.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Can NATO Really Cut Off China?
It’s unlikely that the alliance can fully prevent Chinese companies from fueling Russia’s war machine.
![Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro greets Argentine President Javier Milei during the CPAC Brazil conference in Balneário Camboriú, Brazil, on July 7.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Milei-Bolsonaro-GettyImages-2160473777.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Milei the Mercurial
Argentina’s president has had a predictably unpredictable first few months in office.
![Members of a polling station count ballots after the opposition's primary elections in Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 22, 2023.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/opposition-venezuela-GettyImages-1739506138.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Code Red for Venezuela
This month’s election could be a turning point for the country—if Maduro’s efforts to rig it are stopped.
![Joe Biden arrives to speak about Covid-19 vaccines for children, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on June 21, 2022 in Washington.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1241441923.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Biden’s Frailty Doesn’t Endanger America
Why the president’s weakened physical condition doesn’t make the country more vulnerable.
![U.S. President Joe Biden (left) listens to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (right) speak during NATO's 75th anniversary summit in Washington.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/NATO-ANNIVERSARY-GettyImages-2160862779.png?w=800?quality=80)
How to Sell NATO to Gen Z
Here are some relationship tips for the 75-year-old alliance.
![Canadian Defense Minister Bill Blair answers questions from journalists at the NATO headquarters in Brussels on Feb. 14.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2002538371-e1720631339338.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Is Canada Free-Riding on Defense?
Defense Minister Bill Blair responds to criticism of Ottawa’s “shameful” contributions to NATO.
![A worker wearing a mask and glasses studies a vial on a pharmaceutical factory assembly line. Other workers are out of focus on either side of her.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1-China-fentanyl-us-mexico-GettyImages-1454191221.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How China Trapped Itself in America’s Fentanyl Crisis
Central policy and money laundering have created networks that aid traffickers.
![U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to supporters during a campaign rally at Sherman Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin, on July 5.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Biden-elections-GettyImages-2160792398.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
What Is the True Cost of a Diminished Biden?
The U.S. president has always been a gaffe machine. But no one understands foreign policy better.
![A general view of the Prague NATO summit at the Prague Congress Centre, on Nov. 21, 2002.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-1059068412-1.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
This Time, NATO Is in Trouble for Real
After years of false alarms, the Western military alliance is finally approaching a precipice.
![A woman stands in the middle of a room with black walls with tiny images of historical photographs and documents projected onto every corner of the room.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ai-research-risks-GettyImages-679721356.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Red Teaming Isn’t Enough
Researchers need far more information to understand AI’s true risks.
![Mark Rutte, who is now NATO's secretary-general, looks on during a press conference at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on April 17, 2024.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/rutte-nato-GettyImages-2147877407.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Does NATO Have a Future?
As the alliance’s leaders gather in Washington, the prospect of a second Trump administration looms large.
![Marchers, most of them women in heels, dresses, coats, and hats carry signs for the communist part as they walk down a street in New York.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/us-communist-party-GettyImages-514897020.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Contradictions of America’s Communist Party
Its members were the country’s original illiberal democrats—before imploding into irrelevance.
![A Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II multirole combat airplane of the United States Air Force flies over Ramstein Air Base during a day of fighter plane exercises in Ramstein-Miesenbach, Germany, on June 6.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/f35-germany-GettyImages-2156355446.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Why the U.S. Needs to Upgrade Its Fighter Jets Now
With China on its tail, the American military should not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy.
![Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda speak or sing into a microphone on a stage in front of the U.S. flag, held by two smiling women.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Donald-Sutherland-FTA-Vietnam-activism-Jane-Fonda-AP7101010531.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Donald Sutherland and the Soldiers Who Resisted Vietnam
The chameleonic actor was also an activist ahead of his time.
![A painting shows a man surrounded by mostly women wearing dresses of the court of France in an ornate room.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/benjamin-franklin-france-GettyImages-150617848.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
What We Can Learn From America’s First Diplomat
Benjamin Franklin leveraged a soft touch—and humor—to further U.S. goals.
![Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid leaves a press conference in Kabul.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/taliban-afghanistan-spokesperson-GettyImages-2159790634.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Engaging With the Taliban Can Only Go So Far
Nearly three years since the group took over in Afghanistan, the Doha process underscores how talking comes with trade-offs.
![Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at a rally in Chesapeake, Virginia.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/trump-economy-GettyImages-2159730000.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Trump’s Plan to Weaken the Dollar Makes No Sense
The policy would directly counter the one thing he claims to be fighting against.
![U.S. President Joe Biden takes a look at his notes during the first presidential debate of the 2024 elections in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/biden-debate-world-reaction-GettyImages-2158930823.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Biden’s Debate Performance Has Some U.S. Allies Worried
The U.S. president’s lackluster performance was a wake-up call about the prospects of a second Trump term.
![Biden and Trump stand behind podiums. Trump's arm is gesturing toward Biden.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Trump-Biden-debate-GettyImages-2158937299.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The U.S. Has Its Own ‘Bad Emperor’ Dilemma
The Trump-Biden debate showed that it’s not just China that faces a threat from its own leadership system.
![Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with U.S. President Joe Biden during the G-7 summit in Savelletri, Italy.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/modi-biden-india-g7-GettyImages-2156908842.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Modi’s Third-Term Foreign Policy Looks the Same
New Delhi’s relations with the West—and especially Washington—are likely to stay the course.
![A member of NATO-led peacekeepers holds the NATO flag during the change of command ceremony in Pristina, Kosovo, on Sept. 3, 2014.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/nato-flag-soldier-GettyImages-454534252.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
NATO Is Turning 75, but How Much Is There to Celebrate?
Managing the alliance is more difficult now that the United States has new allies and adversaries.
![Europe-EU-NATO-Donald-Trump-US-election-foreign-policy-illustration-doug-chayka-3-2](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Europe-EU-NATO-Donald-Trump-US-election-foreign-policy-illustration-doug-chayka-3-2.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Europe Alone
Nine thinkers on the continent’s future without America’s embrace.
![Two male soldiers wearing WWII-era formal uniforms embrace in this black-and-white photograph. Palm trees are visible in the background.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1-Coming-out-under-fire.jpeg?w=800?quality=80)
The Greatest Generation Had Queer Veterans, Too
Biden’s pardon of gay soldiers is just one part of acknowledging untold stories.
![U.S. President Joe Biden (R) and Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. President Donald Trump, participate in the CNN presidential debate at the CNN studios in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2159612235.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Is It Too Late to Replace a Presidential Candidate?
Not according to other democracies around the world.
![People watch a live television debate between U.S. President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2159618461-e1719604002527.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How the World Is Reacting to the U.S. Presidential Debate
Biden’s subpar performance is making many of Washington’s allies nervous.
![Jill Biden walks slightly in front of Joe Biden as they exit the debate stage. Both are gazing down and neither is smiling.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/biden-debate-exit-trump-jill-GettyImages-2159613432.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Yes, Biden Flopped. But Let’s Not Overreact.
The United States is in a very bad place. Just not as bad as people think.
![Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo González greets supporters in Barlovento, Venezuela, on June 26.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Edmundo-Gonzalez-Venezuela-GettyImages-2158833336.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Why This Venezuelan Election Feels Different
The opposition holds a decisive lead in polling—and there’s a real possibility Maduro could leave power.
![Police in riot gear clash with protesters holding American flags outside the U.S. Capitol.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/jan-6-violence-GettyImages-1230734165.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How Bad Will Political Violence in the U.S. Get?
Civil war is unlikely, but other alarming scenarios are quite possible.
![U.S. President Joe Biden (right) and former U.S. President Donald Trump participate in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election at CNN’s studios in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/trump-biden-presidential-debate-june-2024-GettyImages-2158941093.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Key Foreign-Policy Moments From the Trump-Biden Debate
The two candidates clashed over Russia’s war in Ukraine, the Israel-Hamas war, immigration, and America’s global image.
![An aerial view shows long, narrow ponds filled with a thick brine, dug into the bed of a dry lake in the desert in Nevada. Piles of white minerals are mounded between the ponds.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lithium-GettyImages-1245260927.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Washington Wants a White Gold Rush
The Biden administration looks to domestic lithium mining to boost U.S. energy security and counter China.
![Donald Trump and Joe Biden participate in the final presidential debate at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, on October 22, 2020.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1229229798-1.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Biden and Trump’s Debate Could Make Foreign-Policy History
International affairs have rarely been featured in presidential debates—but this week’s showdown could be an exception.
![Men sit on the railway line near the airport in Kolwezi, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on May 7, 2018.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/drc-railway-congo-katanga-copper-lobito-GettyImages-957960666.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Africa’s Critical Mineral Race Heats Up
Competing railway corridors pit the United States against China; Kenya faces a violent crackdown on tax protests.
![Illustration of a torn map of Europe revealing Donald Trump](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Europe-EU-trump-US-election-joan-wong-illustration-3-2.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Trump’s Return Would Transform Europe
Without Washington’s embrace, the continent could revert to an anarchic and illiberal past.
![Leaders in business attire in a row on a golf course look up at the sky.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/g7-summit-day-one-GettyImages-2156775446.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
A New Era of Financial Warfare Has Begun
The West’s latest actions against Russia carry risks for the global system and could provoke China.
![Members of the far-right “Hungarian Self-Defense Movement” hold a banner reading “Sin should not be an object of pride” at the protest against the Pride parade in Budapest, Hungary.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/HUNGARY-HOMOPHOBIA-PRIDE-GettyImages-1533425070.png?w=800?quality=80)
The U.S. Right Is Copying Hungary’s Attack on Adoption
So-called pro-family laws are attempts at annihilating LGBTQ+ people.
![Aerial view of a deforested area of the Amazonia rainforest in the surroundings of the BR-319 highway at the city of Humaita, Amazonas state, Brazil, on Sept. 15, 2022.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/brazil-amazon-deforestation-GettyImages-1243267321.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Relieve Debt to Protect the Environment
Debt-for-nature swaps on a grand scale could slow climate change and promote economic growth in the Global South.
![Supporters attend an election campaign rally for Iranian presidential candidate and former nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili in Tehran on June 24.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/iran-election-rally-jalili-GettyImages-2158501721.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Elections Could Reshape U.S.-Iran Dynamic
Voters in Iran are focused on restrictive Western sanctions as both countries head to the polls this year.
![Brian Gu, co-president of Xpeng Inc., has his photo taken next to Xpeng G6 and X9 electric cars in Hong Kong.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/CHINA-EV-CARS-TARIFFS-GettyImages-2152791138.png?w=800?quality=80)
Western Protectionism Needs an End Date
Reliance on tariffs to shield against superior Chinese products is a trap.
![U.S. and Philippine soldiers take part in a joint live fire exercise as part of the annual 'Balikatan' (shoulder-to-shoulder) U.S.-Philippines war exercises, on March 31, 2022 in Crow Valley, Tarlac, Philippines.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/south-china-sea-usa-philippines-GettyImages-1239639277.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Against China, the United States Must Play to Win
Washington’s competition with Beijing should not be about managing threats—but weakening and ultimately defeating the Chinese Communist Party regime.
![A man in a white T-shirt sits on the edge of a bed looking out a window, the view outside partly obscured by hazy curtains. A haze of yellow light covers entire scene.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/loneliness-security-risk-iStock-1784065424.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Loneliness Is a National Security Crisis
Internet scams target vulnerable people with powerful access.
![A file photo shows a worker at a banana plantation in Santa Marta, Colombia.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1779062672.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Case Against Chiquita
A U.S. court holds the fruit company accountable for death-squad murders in Colombia.
![Newspapers report the victory of Javier Milei in Argentina’s presidential runoff election on a newsstand in Buenos Aires on Nov. 20, 2023.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1793451909.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Why Latin Americans Are Losing Trust in the News
Political polarization and funding cuts have hammered public faith in the media.
![Gen. Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Gen. Fang Fenghui, the chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, shake hands after signing an agreement.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-831710084.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
What the United States Can Learn From China
Amid China’s rise, Americans should ask what Beijing is doing right—and what they’re doing wrong.
![Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Aug. 10, 2023.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1605388827-e1718779784321.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Capitalism Is Broken. Here’s How to Fix It.
Investor Ruchir Sharma argues Washington needs to get out of the way.
![Women crowd a street market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Women-Haiti-GettyImages-2156791978.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Haiti’s Transitional Council Has a Blind Spot
Haitian women are on the front lines of the country’s crisis, yet they are being denied a seat at the table.
![Two men sit at computers as they play Star Wars Outlaws at Ubisoft’s Forward conference at the Belasco theater in Los Angeles. The room is dim, and their faces are illuminated mainly by the blue light from their screens.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GAMES-DISINFORMATION-GettyImages-2156414783.png?w=800?quality=80)
There’s No Dodge Button for Disinformation
The United States is trying to use video games to counter propaganda.
![The cover image from the Criterion Collection version of The Parallax View, starring Warren Beatty.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/parallax-view-movie-review.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Paranoid Movies That Captured Post-Watergate America
The proverbial tinfoil hat was once the purview of counterculture hippies.
![A red sky with two Soviet soldiers silhouetted in the foreground.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1-red-dawn-movie-cold-war-russia-united-states-cuba-A123WR.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Hidden Critique of U.S. Foreign Policy in ‘Red Dawn’
Forty years ago, Hollywood released a hit movie with a surprisingly subversive message.
![U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin shakes hands with Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet during a meeting at the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on June 4.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/lloyd-austin-hun-manet-cambodia-GettyImages-2155358599.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How the West Embraced Cambodia’s New Prime Minister
Hun Manet may appear more friendly and even-keeled than his father, but political repression continues apace.
![A man walks past a currency exchange office in Moscow.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2156747006_bb198e.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Why Is Russia’s Economy Still Growing?
Western sanctions over the war in Ukraine have had limited impact.
![U.S. President Joe Biden reaches his arm out a table to shake hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Both men wear dark suits and ties, and the Israeli and American flags hang in front of a blue curtain beyond the two leaders.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1677555006.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Why Biden’s Gaza Gambit Is Likely to Fail
The U.S. president wants a truce more than Israel and Hamas do.
![Sudanese refugees and South Sudanese returnees who have fled from the war in Sudan arrive at a transit camp in Renk on Feb. 14.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2016309945.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How to Solve the World’s Refugee Crisis
UNHCR’s Filippo Grandi on Sudan, Gaza, Ukraine, and more.
![Rio de Janeiro’s health secretary, a man wearing a white lab coat, stands in front of a large stained glass window as he holds up a vial of a dengue vaccine.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/brazil-dengue-vaccine-GettyImages-2032825184.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Dengue Surge Grips Latin America
Lessons from COVID-19 are shaping the region’s response to a record outbreak.
![Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (left) and U.S. President Joe Biden shake hands after signing a bilateral security agreement on the sidelines of the G-7 summit in Italy's Apulia region on June 13.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2156791760.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Biden and the G-7 Seek to Reassure Ukraine
A new security agreement and $50 billion funding deal signal that the West remains united in Kyiv’s defense—but how long will it last?
![Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te, wearing a bomber jacket with an F-16 jet embroidered on it, has a serious expression as he listens to an army officer wearing camouflage battle fatigues and a helmet. The officer points at something with one hand as he speaks to Lai. Other people are visible standing nearby, slightly out-of-focus in front of outdoor greenery.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/taiwan-military-GettyImages-2154461144.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Taiwan Aid Bill Won’t Fix the Arms Backlog
To help Taipei, Washington needs to get smarter about weapons transfers.
![Cargo is unloaded off a plane; a serviceman stands near it holding a gun.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2155417489.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
U.S. Military Planes Are in Haiti. Haitians Don’t Know Why.
Haitians have been told too little about the international security mission set to deploy on their soil.
![Hands are shown opening up with white doves in them.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2006229169.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Morality Is the Enemy of Peace
The conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine can only end with deals that don’t satisfy anyone completely.
![The head of former U.S. President Donald Trump is seen as he peers over a black car door as he exits Trump Tower and enters the vehicle on a Manhattan street.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-2154813003.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Trump’s Case Is the Exception, Not the Rule
White-collar crimes are prosecuted at much lower rates than many other crimes in the United States.
![Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sits onstage at a party meeting. He crosses his arms and puts one hand over his face in contemplation as he watches the proceedings.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/modi-taiwan-india-GettyImages-2147791258.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Modi’s Taiwan Ties Have Rattled China
India’s overtures to the island have coincided with a breakdown in its relationship with Beijing.
![An illustration shows symbols from the U.S. dollar acting as balloons as they lift George Washington from the dollar bill as he sits atop a globe throne.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/dollar-currency-dominance-Brian-Stauffer-illustration.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Don’t Bet Against the Dollar
U.S. competitors are pushing the limits of autonomy within a dollar-based system, but there isn’t a real global alternative—and the world is far from an inflection point.
![OpenAI CEO Sam Altman (R) appears on a giant screen speaking remotely during a keynote with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic during the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) AI for Good Global Summit, in Geneva, on May 30.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ai-chatgpt-GettyImages-2154701318.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How Washington Missed the Boat on AI Regulation
The U.S. Congress missed an opportunity. Instead, it published a road map that fails to address the key challenges posed by new technologies.
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The British Countryside’s Forgotten History of Slavery
Britons tend to downplay the empire’s slave-trading history. But its links to Virginia tobacco are all over the landscape.
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Are We Really Toiling in Amazon’s Fields?
A critique of “technofeudalism” loses the plot.
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The Economics of the Normandy Invasion
How industrial power and innovation helped turn the war.
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The End of American Exceptionalism in the High North
After years of inattention, the United States is playing catch-up where it once held significant sway.
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Claudia Sheinbaum Wins Landslide Victory
Mexico’s next president will command an even bigger congressional majority than AMLO. How will she use it?
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Americans Don’t Want a Wartime President
If Biden can avoid the temptation to be a warrior defending allies abroad, he might have a better chance at winning his battles at home.
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What the West Can Learn From Singapore
Data shows that in key areas, Singapore is better at governing than the U.S. and Britain.
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Biden’s Foreign-Policy Problem Is Incompetence
The U.S. military’s collapsed pier in Gaza is symbolic of a much bigger issue.
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The U.S. Needs a New Purpose in the Middle East
It’s time to ditch both romantic ideals of remaking the region and the policy of retrenchment.
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The Problem With Invoking the ‘Third World’ Slur
The Trump verdict is the latest prompt for deploying a meaningless comparison. All that does is reflect poorly on the United States.
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The South China Sea Risks a Military Crisis
The Philippine president drew a red line this week, but mutual restraint from Manila and Beijing can calm tensions.
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Trump’s Conviction Could Help End Elite Impunity
An assault on democracy demands a wider legal and political response.
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The World Reacts to Trump’s Guilty Verdict
Chinese and Russian state media mirrored Trump’s talking points on the trial.
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A Nation of Alternative Realities
Trump’s felony conviction shows that no man is above the law, but it also deepens the United States’ war with itself.
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Caribbean Summit Showcases the Power of Island Politics
Vulnerable nations continue to punch above their weight in global debates on climate finance and justice.
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Why Mexico’s Election Matters
A vote for continuity could see further erosion of democratic institutions—with consequences for the rest of the world.
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Why Diego Garcia Matters
A dispute over a tiny island in the Indian Ocean presents complications for U.S. goals in the Indo-Pacific.
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Biden’s New Tariffs Should Raise Alarm Bells in Beijing
In the fight for economic dominance, Washington is playing the long game.
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The U.S. Tries Its Hand at Cricket
As the country co-hosts its first World Cup, the South Asian diaspora is already giving the sport a boost.
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Mexico’s Historic Elections, Explained
The country is all but guaranteed its first woman president.
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The U.S.-Saudi Agreement Is a Fool’s Errand
For the sake of the international order, Biden must abandon his proposed deal with Riyadh.
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Mexico’s Next Leader Has an Energy Problem
The country cannot expand and modernize its infrastructure under the primacy of two state companies.
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How to Respond to China’s Tactics in the South China Sea
Beijing is testing the U.S.-Philippines alliance, and a new strategy is needed.
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The Philippines Needs Butter, Not Just Guns
To counter China, Washington must help its ally address economic issues.
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Where Canada’s Weed Legalization Went Wrong
A new government report faults Ottawa with prioritizing big business over public health.
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Are U.S.-China Talks Accomplishing Anything?
Meetings on climate and AI show some progress, but tech competition still dominates the relationship.
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The End of Left Versus Right
Fareed Zakaria on the scrambling of our political spectrums—and how that’s a sign of a broader revolution afoot.
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Campus Protests Reflect Impatience With U.S. Foreign Policy
The Biden administration’s disavowal of students’ concerns will only make things worse.
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Democracies Aren’t the Peacemakers Anymore
How Washington can reclaim its diplomatic primacy in an authoritarian age.
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When Knowledge Stops at the Water’s Edge
Fears about foreign contacts and security clearances are making America’s future diplomats and policymakers less worldly and more insular.
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How Fates Diverged in Hispaniola
As the Dominican Republic basks in post-election optimism, Haiti readies for a foreign security intervention.
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Kenya and the U.S. Need Each Other More Than Ever
Closer ties to emerging economies are an insurance policy for Washington against geopolitical shocks.
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Cities Are the Canaries in the Public Health Coal Mine
Preparing for the next pandemic starts in their streets and sewers.
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Consulting Firms Have Stumbled Into a Geopolitical Minefield
The era of free-flowing information is over.