Essay
List of Essay articles
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An illustration of people's fist replacing columns in building representing people's democracy. More Power to More People
To protect democracy, we have to first figure out why it’s worth saving.
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Koko the gorilla with trainer Penny Patterson Nature Is Becoming a Person
How to make sense of the new global trend that grants legal rights to animals, plants, and rivers.
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climate-change-storytelling-foreign-policy-illustration The Tragedy of Stopping Climate Change
The race is on to tell—or sell—the right story about global warming.
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us-navy-china-Timo-Lenzen-illustration-hp Float, Move, and Fight
How the U.S. Navy lost the shipbuilding race.
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us-navy-china-great-power-Hendrix_hp Sea Power Makes Great Powers
History reveals a country’s rise and decline are directly related to the heft of its navy. So why is the United States intent on downsizing?
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A military transport plane takes off in Kabul. The Falling Man of Kabul
Zaki Anwari represented what a free Afghanistan could achieve. His gruesome death is a vivid reminder of the human toll of U.S. abandonment.
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A group of orphaned Afghan girls ‘Support Is Not Just About Money’
A U.S. veteran of Afghan heritage reflects on a complicated relationship between two far-apart nations.
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A soldier holds a European Union flag Exactly How Helpless Is Europe?
If the United States stops protecting its closest allies, it won’t be a catastrophe. It’ll be exactly what they needed.
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biden-100-days-fdr-lincoln-obama_Illustration-KLAWE-RZECZYn-hp The Most Vital 100 Days Since FDR
Just like Roosevelt, Biden must show that government still works.
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Joe Biden at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. How Biden Will—and Won’t—Battle the Pentagon
What the new president really thinks about the military—and what the military really thinks about him.
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An illustration combining images of Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi. Janet Yellen and Mario Draghi Have One Last Job
The U.S. treasury secretary and the Italian prime minister have spent decades shaping this economy. But can they control what comes next?
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Early versions of Foreign Policy featured a narrow format and a different logo color for each season—blue for winter, green for spring, burgundy for summer, and yellow or brown for fall. Consensus Lost
How FP set out to change the world.
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Janine di Giovanni in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in January 2010. The First Draft of History
Why the decline of foreign reporting makes for worse foreign policy.
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A photo proof from the Toronto Star archives of John Kenneth Galbraith on Dec. 29, 1972. America Abandoned Its Economic Prophet. The World Embraced Him.
John Kenneth Galbraith was an intellectual celebrity 50 years ago—and it would be a mistake to ignore him today.
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Dollar-fall-rise-foreign-policy-joan-wong-illustration-article The Rise and Fall and Rise (and Fall) of the U.S. Financial Empire
The dollar is dead. Long live the dollar.
