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Trump Is Treating America Like an Emerging Market
Trump's economic program has damaged many weaker economies and makes even less sense for the United States
How Fear Killed Liberalism
Political anxieties have piled up and put an end to an era of public optimism.
Washington Has One Chance to Help Disarm Hezbollah
As Lebanon moves to confront the country’s most dangerous militia, U.S. support will be vital.
Ethiopia Could Still Avert the Next War With Eritrea
Keeping the Pretoria Agreement in a comatose state should not be seen as an end in itself.
China Hosts World Leaders
China’s Military Parade Is a Powerful Diplomatic Display
Xi Jinping is trying to link past, present, and future.
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the West Lake State Guest House in Hangzhou, China, on Sept. 4, 2016. -
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping appear at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2024. -
Russian President Vladimir Putin greets Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Asia & the Pacific
A Trump-Brokered Peace Deal in the South Caucasus Is Hopeful but Incomplete
China
Why Does China Care About New York Politics?
Middle East & Africa
Can Tunisia’s Largest Labor Union Survive Saied?
Europe
Why the Global South Won’t Quit Russia
Americas
Amazon Summit Shows Scant Progress
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A man silhouettes against an image of the new 50 Swiss franc banknote during its presentation by the Swiss National Bank in Bern. -
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Chinese President Xi Jinping appear at the BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, on Oct. 23, 2024. -
Guterres is shown at a podium. -
A quadcopter drone hovers against a cloudy gray sky above a muddy road crowded with emergency responders and vehicles. A sack hangs from a rope tied to the drone. Emergency workers in bright orange uniforms and hats look up to watch the drone as it moves.
So You Want to Work in International Affairs
A veteran practitioner’s 12 tips to land that first job.
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A film still shows people running in the street from an attack. A government building and the Taiwanese flag is seen in the background.
Why Compare the Present to the Past?
Thinking via historical analogy has become the preferred way to confront our anxieties.
An American Caesar
Comparing two leaders, two millennia apart.
Trump’s India Tariffs Take Effect, Fed Fight Escalates
Reports and analysis from staff and contributors.
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Lisa DeNell Cook, then-nominee to be a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, is sworn in during a Senate Banking nominations hearing in Washington, D.C. -
Street art shows U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at a section of the former Berlin Wall at Mauerpark in Berlin. -
The barrels of assault rifles are seen neatly arranged in rows on a table on top of a blue tablecloth.
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Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing arrives to deliver a speech in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, on March 27, 2024. -
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and U.S. President Donald Trump participate in a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. -
A view of the shadow of U.S. President Donald Trump as he speaks during the "Winning the AI Race" summit hosted by All‑In Podcast and Hill & Valley Forum at the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington on July 23.
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The Future of the Dollar Lies Within
Dollar dominance is here to stay, if the United States can keep it.
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The book cover for The Second Emancipation by Howard French.
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The book cover for The CIA Book Club by Charlie English. -
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The book cover of Exophony by Yoko Tawada
In Case You Missed It
A selection of paywall-free articles
Four Explanatory Models for Trump’s Chaos
It’s clear that the second Trump administration is aiming for change—not inertia—in U.S. foreign policy.
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An illustration shows a golden Cybertruck blasting through a U.S. seal of an eagle holding arrows and laurel.
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An illustration shows a line of large shopping carts facing down a small Donald Trump figure holding two shopping bags. The stars of China's flag are in the upper left corner. -
Soldiers from various NATO allies take part in a military exercise at the Smardan Training Area in Smardan, Romania, on Feb. 19. -
An illustrations shows the silhouette of Donald Trump with a face filled with pricetags.
Visual Stories
From Berlin to Baghdad on the Ruins of a WWI Railway
The unfinished line traces a fractured region still beset by competing imperial projects.
Life Returns to Palmyra
After more than a decade of exile, locals are finally coming home.
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