History

From being wary about the Middle East to protecting America’s intelligence services, the former president was far more prescient than he’s often given credit for.

George H.W. Bush's administration was evidence of what the establishment was capable of.

Narendra Modi is building multimillion-dollar monuments while India's poorest citizens die of hunger and preventable diseases.

As the post-Merkel era looms, Germany’s center-right party needs to ditch its eastern base and go back to its western roots.

The U.K.'s defeat at Jutland is a reminder of how a victorious force can get lazy.

It wasn’t just nationalism that fueled the 20th century’s first great tragedy.

There’s no good reason to pull Marshal Philippe Pétain from the dustbin of history.

Persecution in Xinjiang is pushing Uighurs over the border.

Economic historian Adam Tooze assesses the Italian crisis—and the prospects for a global collapse.

Will the return of the European far-right be the undoing of the West?

On the podcast: Javier Cercas’s new book on the man who impersonated a Holocaust survivor.

Remembering the era of portable atomic bombs.

Brussels’s new European history museum could put anyone to sleep.

Foreign Policy staffers review recent releases.

South Africa needs to redistribute property—but not all appropriation is made the same.

Assam's citizenship crisis is the latest legacy of a division that made nations.

Francisco Franco ran Spain with an iron fist for decades—and created myths about his rule that are only now starting to come undone.

Two French best-sellers draw warnings for the present from the stories of Hitler’s henchmen.

Filmmaker Claude Lanzmann, dead at 92, showed the world the Holocaust through eyewitnesses.

The best improvisation requires prep work.