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Part 2: FP Analytics examines evolving government data collection practices and how AI is making this collection more efficient and ubiquitous.

Members of Congress fear Beijing could use the facility for espionage and economic warfare. But the Trump administration is set to let it move forward.

Protests against racism are shedding light on a silent morale crisis within parts of America’s diplomatic corps.

Washington is pressing for a post-pandemic decoupling from China. But the last big economic split brought on two world wars and a depression. What’s in store this time?

Part 1: FP Analytics examines the proliferation of regulations impacting the most valuable global commodity — user data.

In South Africa, people are brewing beer at home. Muslims in India are celebrating Ramadan alone. And city streets everywhere are vacant.

A rocky marriage of convenience that has lasted since World War II could derail as oil markets crash and mutual mistrust reaches new heights.

The world was already breaking apart. The coronavirus pandemic accelerates the trend.

In the final installment, FP Analytics lays out the inherent security risks associated with 5G’s role in the digitization of the global economy and breaks down the critical issues for which companies and individuals need to prepare.

I ended up quarantined in both Beijing and Washington during the coronavirus outbreak. The experiences weren’t as different as you might think.

In this second of three parts, FP Analytics explores 5G's development and its global commercial and geopolitical implications.

In this first of three parts, FP Analytics explores 5G's development and its global commercial and geopolitical implications.

Essays on how social democracy can save the world, as well as counterpoints on why capitalism remains the best way for populations to thrive.

Communism and democratic socialism won’t heal today’s political divisions. But social democracy—which helped ward off extremism following World War II—could.

The fight on Chinese disinformation has become dangerously partisan.

Friends and foes alike no longer know where the United States stands. As Washington overpromises and underdelivers, regional powers are seeking solutions on their own—both through violence and diplomacy.

The Netherlands is taking the lead in solving climate change—and proving that the rest of the West is doing democracy wrong.

In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.

Beginning with special representative James Jeffrey, U.S. officials consistently misread the threat from Turkey.

Zabulon Simentov has seen it all, and now, like all Afghans, he must embrace a future filled with uncertainty and violence.

The race for the top job at an obscure U.N. agency tested great-power influence on the world stage—and Beijing coasted into a victory over Washington.

How to fix U.S. democracy, populism, trade, and other pressing issues.

The European Union is funding the Libyan coast guard to keep migrants out of Europe and detain them in a failed state—and that leaves them at the mercy of militias and human traffickers.

Decriminalization saves lives. But Canada is only just accepting that reality—and the United States is even further behind.

Forty years ago, a U.S. satellite detected the telltale signs of a nuclear explosion. An analysis of the evidence today points to a clandestine nuclear test, a Carter administration cover-up, and only one country that was willing and able to carry it out: Israel.

The blame for Ankara’s antagonistic stance to Washington lies with both sides, a product of decades of misunderstandings.

Scammed by opportunistic agents, African students seeking a future in the EU have ended up stuck in Northern Cyprus—some of them left for dead.

After two decades of war in the desert, Canadian troops must relearn how to operate in the frozen north.

America’s laden tables used to wow queens and premiers. But is state dinner diplomacy as outdated as lobster aspic?

Ambassadors try to understand more about Trump’s America by seeing it for themselves.

The militants’ new strategy is to out-govern the U.S.-backed administration in Kabul—and it’s working.

Why the world desperately needs digital Geneva Conventions.

U.S. and U.N. diplomats overlooked atrocity amid hopes of democracy.

AI will change everything. Workers must adapt — or else.

Many remain critical, others have repented, but all are shut out from the Trump State Department.