List of Culture articles
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Main character Yusuke Kafuku leans against his red car as supporting character Misaki Watari sits behind the wheel. ‘Drive My Car’ Could Change Japanese Cinema Forever
The Japanese film is up for an Academy Award at this year’s Oscars.
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Vistors arrive at St. Michael's monastery May 18, 2005 in central Kiev, Ukraine. Ukraine’s Cultural Heritage Is Desperate for Help
Russia could destroy Ukrainian history, unless the United States does something about it.
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Hands are shown holding a small U.S. Flag and a folder that says "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services." What Happens When White People Become a Minority in America?
Other majority-minority societies offer positive examples—and cautionary tales.
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Ukrainian soldiers in Lviv The Language of Russia’s War on Ukraine
Putin’s weaponization of the Russian language has solidified Ukrainian identity and statehood.
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Tea pickers remove weeds at an organic tea plantation. In Sri Lanka, Organic Farming Went Catastrophically Wrong
A nationwide experiment is abandoned after producing only misery.
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A man in military clothing stands inside the damaged Holy Savior Cathedral in the Nagorno-Karabakh city of Shusha, known as Shushi to Armenians. Cultural Desecration Is Racial Discrimination
A recent International Court of Justice decision regarding Azerbaijan’s actions in Nagorno-Karabakh could offer protection to threatened cultural heritage sites around the world.
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Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a speech during the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in Beijing on July 1. The Chinese Communist Party’s Big Year
China’s government wants the country to have one story, and Xi Jinping is at the center of it.
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good-girls-ordinary-killing-india-sonia-faleiro-hanna-hbarczyk_illustration-lead The Best of 2021, to Read and to Watch
From a semi-fictionalized account of the Netanyahus to a meditation on ancient Rome’s stabbiness, here are the best book and film reviews Foreign Policy published this year.
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From left: French philosophers Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, and Gilles Deleuze. How Leftist Theory Stopped Making Sense
Progressive thinkers tried to explain ever more of the world—and found themselves explaining nothing at all.
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Singer Josephine Baker performs. Josephine Baker: First American to Enter France’s Panthéon
The Black expatriate singer, dancer, resistance hero, and civil rights warrior exits stage left into history.
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Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan performs. Modi’s Growing Crackdown on Bollywood
India’s film industry is under growing pressure to bend its knee to Hindu nationalists.
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Best-games-2021-that-explain-the-world-foreign-policy-Games 5 Games That Explain The World
From the Islamic Revolution in Tehran to fuzzy animals playing counterinsurgents, these board and video games are inspired by foreign relations.
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Best-books-of-202-foreign-policy The Best Books We Read in 2021
A roundup of some of our favorite reads this year.
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reccomends-best-of-holiday-recs-tv-movies FP’s Holiday Movie, TV, and Podcast Recommendations
Globe-trotting diversions from us to you.
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A Vodouist walks to Bawon Samdi's tomb during Fèt Gede at the Cité Soleil Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Nov. 1, 2018. What the Kidnapper Wilson Joseph’s Costume Says About Haitian Politics
Vodou and Christianity are perpetually entangled with Haiti’s power struggles.
