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Customers look at products on display outside a train station in the Akihabara district of Tokyo.
Customers look at products on display outside a train station in the Akihabara district of Tokyo.

Japan Finally Got Inflation. Nobody Is Happy About It.

After 25 years of deflation, the public is mad about price rises.

Analysis
William Sposato
A large container ship is passing through a canal in the top half composition, with water in the lower half.
A large container ship is passing through a canal in the top half composition, with water in the lower half.

The Panama Canal Is Running Dry

Climate extremes are wreaking havoc on global shipping. This article has an audio recording

Analysis
Mie Hoejris Dahl
The AlpenGold Hotel ahead of the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.
The AlpenGold Hotel ahead of the 54th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum.

The Davos Paradox

How can the rich and powerful fix the world if they’re the problem?

Insider
Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud delivers a speech during a meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip on the sidelines of a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations offices in Geneva, on Dec. 12, 2023.
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud delivers a speech during a meeting on the situation in the Gaza Strip on the sidelines of a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations offices in Geneva, on Dec. 12, 2023.

What Gulf States Want in Gaza

Getting rid of Hamas could intensify regional rivalries for influence.

Analysis
Talal Mohammad
Milei spreads his arms out wide on a balcony, speaking into a microphone.
Milei spreads his arms out wide on a balcony, speaking into a microphone.

What’s the Deal With Javier Milei?

Experts weigh in on what he will do to Argentine democracy.

The Reading List
Chloe Hadavas
Outside of a building, a poster board cutout of a man is centered in the foreground. Many waving flags are raised behind the cutout.
Outside of a building, a poster board cutout of a man is centered in the foreground. Many waving flags are raised behind the cutout.

India Is the Latest Member of a Growing Assassination Club

Cross-border murders have returned as a tool of statecraft. This article has an audio recording

Analysis
Justin Ling
University student protest opposite the Berlin University of the Arts on December 20, 2023,
University student protest opposite the Berlin University of the Arts on December 20, 2023,

Germany Needs to Step Up on Israel-Palestine

Social Democrats must be at the forefront of peace efforts.

Argument
Knut Dethlefsen
Israeli soldiers and their gear are seen in Nahal Oz, Israel, near the Gaza border.
Israeli soldiers and their gear are seen in Nahal Oz, Israel, near the Gaza border.

Israel’s ‘People’s Army’ at War

Israelis have an especially close bond with their military, but Oct. 7 shook their trust to the core.

Feature
Raphael S. Cohen
Election officials prepare to count ballots at a polling booth in Dhaka.
Election officials prepare to count ballots at a polling booth in Dhaka.

What in the World?

Test yourself on the week of Jan. 6: Bangladesh votes, Israel is accused of genocide, and Ecuador weathers a shocking attack.

Quiz
Drew Gorman
A girl raises a Palestinian flag as another Palestinian boy holds a wooden key symbolising the return, as they stand with others before the barbed-wire marking the border between the Gaza strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 13, 2018 during a demonstration anticipating the 70 years since the Palestinian "Nakba", or catastrophe, of 1948 when over 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes in the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation.
A girl raises a Palestinian flag as another Palestinian boy holds a wooden key symbolising the return, as they stand with others before the barbed-wire marking the border between the Gaza strip and Israel east of Gaza City on May 13, 2018 during a demonstration anticipating the 70 years since the Palestinian "Nakba", or catastrophe, of 1948 when over 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homes in the 1948 war surrounding Israel's creation.

How to Stop Another Nakba

Time is running out to prevent the mass displacement of Palestinians in Gaza from becoming permanent.

Argument
Eyal Lurie-Pardes
A small boat is seen as a ship transits the Suez Canal toward the Red Sea near Ismailia, Egypt.
A small boat is seen as a ship transits the Suez Canal toward the Red Sea near Ismailia, Egypt.

Biden Has No Good Options in Yemen

The decision to bomb the Houthis was likely the administration’s least bad path.

Analysis
Christina Lu, Robbie Gramer
Supporters cheer under a huge flag of Taiwan during an election campaign rally of Kuomintang presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih in New Taipei City.
Supporters cheer under a huge flag of Taiwan during an election campaign rally of Kuomintang presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih in New Taipei City.

This Is a ‘5-Alarm Fire Right Now’

FP learns why a war that isn’t on yet might matter more than one that’s been raging for years, in a chat with Elbridge Colby.

Insider
Keith Johnson
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference ahead of a trip to China at the State Department in Washington.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference ahead of a trip to China at the State Department in Washington.

U.S.-China Meetings Aim to Defuse Tensions Ahead of Taiwan Election

Blinken met with a top Chinese official slated to be the next foreign minister.

Analysis
Robbie Gramer
A British Navy Sea King helicopter lifts off from the back of a British warship on Dec. 6, 1987, as a British military convoy of 4 warships moves south toward the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran-Iraq "Tanker War."
A British Navy Sea King helicopter lifts off from the back of a British warship on Dec. 6, 1987, as a British military convoy of 4 warships moves south toward the Strait of Hormuz during the Iran-Iraq "Tanker War."

In the Red Sea, the Royal Navy Is Back

Britannia once ruled the waves. As the Houthis threaten global shipping, U.K. naval power is reprising its old role. This article has an audio recording

Analysis
Elisabeth Braw
Refugees fleeing the conflict in Sudan queue with their jerrycans to queue to collect drinking water from the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) distribution point at the Ourang refugee camp in Adre on Dec. 7, 2023.
Refugees fleeing the conflict in Sudan queue with their jerrycans to queue to collect drinking water from the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) distribution point at the Ourang refugee camp in Adre on Dec. 7, 2023.

In Sudan, Put Aid Before Talks

The West’s focus on negotiations is worsening the country’s humanitarian crisis.

Argument
Suha Musa
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