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Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

America's Problem With Diplomacy Predates Trump
Witkoff and Kushner are merely the tip of the iceberg.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

Where Do the Gulf States Go From Here?
The U.S. war with Iran has shattered their economic model.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

U.S.-Iran Peace Talks May Collapse Before They Even Begin
Tehran is demanding new conditions for dialogue, as Israel continues its strikes on Lebanon.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

The Iran War's Agriculture Shock Isn't Over Yet
Even with a cease-fire deal in place, vital energy and fertilizer flows remain trapped.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

The Economy Is on the Ballot in Hungary
How longtime Prime Minister Viktor Orban's economic record could shape Sunday's election.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

What in the World?
Test yourself on the week of April 4: Orban prepares for Hungary's elections, Trump threatens Iran, and Taiwan's opposition leader visits China.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

Pakistan Walks a Tightrope on Iran
As Islamabad hosts peace talks, it's also balancing a security pact with Riyadh.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

The Charisma Wars
Why personality now trumps policy in global politics.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

The Fight Over the Future of Meat
The United States lost the EV race to China. Food could be next.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

Meme Wars
Trump has decimated the norms of diplomatic communication, and other countries have followed suit.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

How Iran Hawks Are Viewing the Cease-Fire
John Bolton explains why he wishes Trump finished the job.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

Spain Is the Friend That the United States Needs
In the Iran war and beyond, Madrid has often done a better job looking out for U.S. interests than Washington.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

Taiwan's Political Crisis Is a Security Nightmare
Government paralysis is freezing budgets and wrecking public trust.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

What if the Ottomans Survived?
Recent scholarship shows the promise—and limits—of a historical path not taken.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

Trump's Venezuela Report Card
A look back at the U.S. intervention in Venezuela that the president wants to replicate.

Foreign Policy
Apr 10, 2026

This Was the First War Against AI
The Iran war has revealed the geopolitical miscalculations of the current tech race.

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

Will Netanyahu Derail the Iran War Cease-Fire?
Israel's offensive in Lebanon is threatening the tenuous truce.

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

Will ASEAN Welcome Myanmar Back Into Its Fold?
The official appointment of coup leader Min Aung Hlaing as president is likely to hasten a shift within the bloc.

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

Rutte Defends NATO's Iran War Response Amid Trump's Ire
The NATO chief spoke the day after a tense White House meeting with the U.S. president.

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

A Wait in the Strait
Shipping companies are reacting with caution as Hormuz cease-fire terms remain uncertain.

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

Trump's Recipe for Accelerated U.S. Decline
Erratic militarism combined with increased defense spending would only bring long-term decay.

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

The Man Who Shaped Washington's View of the Middle East
Brett McGurk advised four presidents on a contested region—but to what end?

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

The Iran Cease-Fire Has Only Divided the War
Instead of ending the fighting, the current deal has mostly managed to complicate it.

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

How Ukraine Benefited from Trump's Iran War
Countries are lining up for military deals with Kyiv.

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

This Isn't a 1970s Oil Shock
The Iran war has disrupted a different, more fragile global energy system.

Foreign Policy
Apr 09, 2026

America's Pro-War Elites Must Be Held Accountable
Advocates for the disastrous adventure in Iran shouldn't escape responsibility.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

Cease-Fire Confusion Over Lebanon
Disagreements over what was agreed to threaten to unravel the U.S.-Iran cease-fire deal.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

A New Legal Blow to the U.K.'s Chagos Islands Deal
Britain's plan to hand back its last African colony is on thin ice.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

The One Thing That Terrifies Donald Trump
Iran discovered his Achilles' heel—a market slump.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

The Energy Crisis Won't End Right Away (Even if the Iran War Does)
Even if the cease-fire holds, it will take months to undo the damage.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

Beijing Prefers Peace to Force on Taiwan
China sees the potential for conflict as a tragedy, not an opportunity.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

5 Unanswered Questions on the U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire
The fragile truce faces significant obstacles.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

Beijing Is Trying to Break U.S. Narratives Over Taiwan
A key meeting with the Taiwanese opposition signals a different model of cross-strait stability.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

How Pakistan Helped Secure a Cease-Fire in Iran
The truce remains fragile, but Islamabad has offered to host peace talks.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

Iraq's Pro-Iran Groups Aren't Going Anywhere
Militias aligned with Tehran are embedded in some of the country's most powerful networks.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

Hegseth's Divine War
The U.S. defense secretary is using the military to promote Christian nationalism, experts say.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

Why Trump Mishandled Iran
The U.S. president has a history of following other world leaders—or his gut—instead of his own intelligence officers and experts.

Foreign Policy
Apr 08, 2026

Iran Conflict Threatens Armenia-Azerbaijan Progress
Trump's Iran policy might undermine his one successful peace accord.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

U.S. and Iran Agree to 2-Week Cease-Fire
The announcement came less than two hours before Trump's deadline was set to expire.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

Another Chinese Politburo Member Falls
Ma Xingrui is the latest official ensnared by anti-corruption purges.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

Will Trump Attack or TACO?
T-minus four hours until either Tehran accepts a cease-fire deal or the United States attacks Iran's civilian infrastructure.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

The Iran War Is Exposing Iraq's Weaknesses
Baghdad doesn't control much of its own territory.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

Why Energy Has Become a Foreign-Policy Weapon
Iran's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is a reminder of how everything is fair game in an era of great-power competition.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

Trump Is Attacking Iranians, Not Just Iran
The destruction of infrastructure is killing ordinary people.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

Preventing an Iranian Bomb Is Only Getting Harder
A weaker, angrier, more suspicious regime with a less cautious supreme leader and leverage over Hormuz. What could go wrong?

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

The War Will End With a Hormuz Toll Booth
Iran will likely control the waterway. The question is whether diplomats find a way of making that workable.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

The Gulf's Wartime Unity Is Unraveling
Some states want escalation; others are pushing for restraint.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

Trump's New Cyber Strategy Is Catnip for Beijing
Washington thinks offensive cyber power will restore deterrence. It's mistaken.

Foreign Policy
Apr 07, 2026

Southeast Asia's Coming Food Crisis
Myanmar will be hit worst.

Foreign Policy
Apr 06, 2026

Iran, U.S. Reject Cease-Fire Proposals
Trump has given Tehran 24 hours to agree to a peace deal and reopen the Strait of Hormuz or else face massive strikes.

Foreign Policy
Apr 06, 2026

Horrors in Sudan Highlight Deterioration of Western Diplomatic Corps
Decades of neglect have hollowed out expertise and experience.

Foreign Policy
Apr 06, 2026

Trump's Rhetorical Terror
Violent language has become a consistent and completely counterproductive part of Donald Trump's foreign policy.

Foreign Policy
Apr 06, 2026

Free Trade Is Dead in Washington
Trumpian chaos conceals a wider bipartisan shift aimed at China.

Foreign Policy
Apr 06, 2026

China's Absence Draws America Deeper Into Risky Wars
The lack of a counterweight encourages intervention and overreach.

Foreign Policy
Apr 06, 2026

Democrats Already Have an Affordability Agenda
They should reclaim key parts of Joe Biden's record, rather than run from it.

Foreign Policy
Apr 06, 2026

India's Stranded Seafarers Hope New Delhi Can Save Them
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has left thousands of Indian sailors at risk.

Foreign Policy
Apr 06, 2026

Sing, O Muse, of the Rage of Donald Trump!
The war in Iran has all the elements of a Greek tragedy.

Foreign Policy
Apr 06, 2026

The War in Iran Is a Strategic Blunder
Now, the question is the extent to which Trump's hubris will hurt U.S. interests in the long term.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

Iran Shoots Down U.S. Fighter Jet, One Crew Member Still Missing
The White House wants to portray Iran's military as defeated, but U.S. intelligence shows otherwise.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

Why Trump's Speech Was So Worrying
Certain outcomes to the U.S. war in Iran now seem more likely than ever.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

In Defense of the Hive Mind
Vince Gilligan's "Pluribus" asks whether an AI-led society would really be that bad.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

Iran's Zarif Wants a Bilateral Reset With U.S. That the Gulf Can't Accept
Former FM's terms for ending the war leave out the states that absorbed the most damage.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

Russia's River of Consciousness
An undercover journalist travels the Volga to catch a glimpse of life under Putin.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

Two Takes on Modern France
Plus, more international fiction releases in April.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

Why Jet Fuel Is the Real Harbinger of the Energy Crisis
The Iran war is torching the products that make the world go around.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

The Lost Children of Minab
It has been one month since missiles struck a school in the Iranian port town.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

Pakistan's Peacemaking Is a Setback for India
As Islamabad positions itself as a mediator in the Iran war, New Delhi is sidelined.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

Iran Is the Dumb, Disastrous Remake of Desert Storm
Trump is trying to rerun the first Gulf War, badly, in an international system that won't allow it.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

The Energy Shock Hits Latin America
The Iran war has led the region's leaders to recalibrate their economic policies.

Foreign Policy
Apr 03, 2026

How China Reinvented the BRI
Western tariffs accelerated its transformation into a sophisticated extension of China's industrial policy.

Foreign Policy
Apr 02, 2026

What's Next for the Iran War?
A prime-time Trump speech offered few clues.

Foreign Policy
Apr 02, 2026

America's War Machine Runs on Tungsten—and It Could Run Out
U.S. operations in Iran risk draining limited U.S. stocks.

Foreign Policy
Apr 02, 2026

U.K. Hosts Coalition Talks to Reopen Hormuz—Without the U.S.
Trump has demanded that other countries bear the responsibility of "taking" the strait.

Foreign Policy
Apr 02, 2026

Will the Iran War Evaporate the Gulf's AI Oasis?
The Iran war has punctured—though not completely popped—the region's tech bubble.

Foreign Policy
Apr 02, 2026

The Next Global Food Crisis Has Already Begun
Blocked fertilizer shipments plus La Niña spell trouble for farmers around the world.

Foreign Policy
Apr 02, 2026

U.S.-South Korea Relations Are at Breaking Point
The Iran war has confirmed how little Washington cares for its ally's welfare.

Foreign Policy
Apr 02, 2026

How Hezbollah Stands to Benefit From an Israeli Invasion
A renewed occupation could play to the guerrilla group's strengths.

Foreign Policy
Apr 02, 2026

Outsource AI Risk to the Right People
Nuclear history shows the importance of keeping skeptics in the room when thinking about safety.

Foreign Policy
Apr 02, 2026

Is Germany's Postwar Consensus on Israel in Peril?
The political left has become simultaneously more mainstream and more radical.

Foreign Policy
Apr 01, 2026

How Algeria Is Navigating the War in Iran
Algiers has historically close ties with Tehran—but it may benefit from the ongoing war.

Foreign Policy
Apr 01, 2026

Trump Mulls Pulling U.S. Out of NATO
However, U.S. law dictates that only an act of Congress or a Senate resolution can withdraw Washington from the alliance.

Foreign Policy
Apr 01, 2026

Nepal's New Leaders Go on the Offensive
Former officials were arrested over the weekend in connection with a crackdown on protesters last year.

Foreign Policy
Apr 01, 2026

Afghans Fear for Safety as War Returns
As the world watches Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan clash.

Foreign Policy
Apr 01, 2026

What a U.S. Operation to Get Iran's Uranium Would Look Like
It's even more complicated than capturing a Venezuelan president.

Foreign Policy
Apr 01, 2026

Waiting for the War to End in Tehran
For Iranians under fire, surges of patriotism and criticism of the government.

Foreign Policy
Apr 01, 2026

Tehran Is Setting a Trap for Trump
Iran's new leaders are more radical and less risk-averse than their predecessors.

Foreign Policy
Apr 01, 2026

Trump's Iran War Is a Dilemma, Not a Debacle
Each of Washington's imperfect options comes with trade-offs and uncertainties.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Iran Flexes Its Cyber Chops
Hackers linked to the regime are escalating attacks against the United States and Israel as the war rages.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Xi's Innovation Paradox
Recent mandates show the Chinese leader wants both loyalty and creativity from officials.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Iran Says It Will Target U.S. Tech Companies in the Middle East
The threat comes as U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned of a decisive next few days in the war.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Five Scenarios for a U.S. Ground War on Iran
A vexing geography offers no clean entry point.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Does Iran's Future Look Like Cuba, Syria, or North Korea?
The Gulf and Israel are pursuing rival strategies toward Iran, but neither is likely to get what they want.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

The Islamic State Sahel Threat Is Transnational
Jihadism's global hub is shifting, and its reach expanding.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Those Who Cannot Remember the Past Condemn Others to Repeat It
History has always been misused, but Washington's Iran rhetoric is uniquely egregious.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Fuel Shortages Raise Stability Risks in Myanmar
After a string of political victories, the military regime might now grapple with fresh upheaval.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

What the State Department Got Wrong With the Iran War Evacuations
Ex-diplomats point to a lack of qualified senior staff and a breakdown in trust.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

A Complacent America Shrugs Off New War Technologies
From the president on down, many Americans still do not grasp the implications of drones and other threats.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Russia's Sanctions-Busting Cryptocurrency Empire
A Kremlin-backed fintech company is linked to massive trade in dual-use goods.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Southeast Asia's Energy Emergency Begins
The Philippines has seen one of the world's sharpest increase in petrol prices.

Foreign Policy
Mar 31, 2026

Iraq's Uniquely Fraught Position in the Iran War
Its northern Kurdistan Region is being hit by both sides.

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