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List of FP Live articles

  • BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 4: A visitor interacts with a mechanic hand at the Robot Mall, world's first embodied intelligent robot 4S store, on August 4, 2025 in Yizhuang district, Beijing, China. The facility is scheduled to open in a robotics industrial park in Yizhuang, located in southern Beijing, during the 2025 World Robot Conference, which is set for August 8-12. (Photo by Zhang Xiangyi/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)
    BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 4: A visitor interacts with a mechanic hand at the Robot Mall, world's first embodied intelligent robot 4S store, on August 4, 2025 in Yizhuang district, Beijing, China. The facility is scheduled to open in a robotics industrial park in Yizhuang, located in southern Beijing, during the 2025 World Robot Conference, which is set for August 8-12. (Photo by Zhang Xiangyi/China News Service/VCG via Getty Images)

    Is the AI Boom a Bubble?

    There is little doubt that the U.S. economy is benefitting from an AI-related boom. But a growing number of economists worry that it could be a bubble. Economist Jared Bernstein will join FP Live to explain his worries.

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    Trump’s New Expansionism

    Can history explain the inconsistencies in Donald Trump’s foreign policy? Historian Greg Grandin joined FP Live to discuss Trump’s imperialist tendencies and how they change Washington’s relations with its partners and neighbors.

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    What’s Next for the Palestinians?

    Amid the fragile cease-fire and the joyful return of prisoners and hostages, one question looms large: What’s next for the Palestinians? Diana Buttu, a lawyer and former peace negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization, joined FP Live to discuss. 

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    Why Young Americans Are Swinging Right

    Poll after poll shows that America’s youngest voters are embracing conservatism and the Republican Party. Emily Jashinsky, a conservative journalist, joined FP’s Ravi Agrawal for an in-depth discussion of youth issues, the resonance of Charlie Kirk, and the shutdown.

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    One-on-One With Europe’s Top Diplomat

    In his second term in office, U.S. President Donald Trump has rocked relations between Washington and Brussels. How is the European Union navigating a difficult moment in the trans-Atlantic relationship? EU foreign-policy chief Kaja Kallas sat down with FP’s Ravi Agrawal for a wide-ranging discussion. 

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    How Oct. 7 Changed the World

    When Hamas crossed into Israel and killed around 1,200 people, it triggered a chain reaction that led to the utter decimation of Gaza, skirmishes with several regional actors, and profound global polarization. Two years on, how has the world changed? FP columnist Stephen Walt discussed with FP Live.

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    Is the U.S. in a Constitutional Crisis?

    The U.S. Supreme Court is locked in partisanship, and legal scholars warn of constitutional crisis. How did we get here—and how do we get out? Historian Jill Lepore sat down with FP’s Ravi Agrawal to address the risks of a constitutional crisis and explain why the Constitution was always intended to be amended.

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    The End of Development?

    With world leaders descending on New York City to attend the U.N.’s General Assembly, FP’s new print issue advances a provocation: Is it the end of development as we know it? FP's Ravi Agrawal sat down with FP columnist Adam Tooze.

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    Javad Zarif on Iran’s Future

    Javad Zarif, the former Iranian former foreign minister who negotiated the 2015 nuclear agreement, joined FP Live’s Ravi Agrawal to discuss Iran’s role in the Middle East and its relationship with the United States.

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    Should America Be More Like China?

    A new book by researcher Dan Wang makes the case that while China has become an engineering state obsessed with building, America has become a lawyerly society focused on procedures and blocking. On FP Live, Wang explored what the two countries can learn from each other.

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    Is America Pivoting Away From India?

    Is the United States pivoting away from India, or will U.S.-India ties revert back to the positive trajectory of the last two decades? Former Indian Foreign Secretary Nirupama Rao joined FP Live to discuss what’s at stake.

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    The Future of the Democratic Party

    Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin, a former CIA analyst, has a “war plan” to combat Trumpism. She sat down with FP’s Ravi Agrawal to discuss how the Democratic Party can win back voters and how she sees the role of U.S. power abroad.

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    Debriefing the Trump-Putin Summit

    Did the highly-anticipated meeting in Alaska alter the trajectory of the war in Ukraine? As dust settles on the summit, FP’s Ravi Agrawal chatted with a former CIA analyst focused on Russia, Andrea Kendall-Taylor and and Sergey Radchenko, a Cold War historian.

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    How to Navigate Trump’s Trade War

    Harvard University economist Dani Rodrik argues that while Trump’s tariffs amount to economic war, unfettered globalization has long been under stress and was no longer a reliable growth model for developing economies. Rodrik joined FP Live to discuss how countries should navigate Trump’s trade policies.

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    The Case for a Pragmatic America

    FP columnist and realist scholar Emma Ashford joined FP’s Ravi Agrawal to discuss how Washington needs to think about its role in what she calls a “post-unipolar world.”

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