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The rules-based order is over. FP’s new print magazine is a survival guide for navigating what comes next.
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In her new book, Emily Wilson’s harshest critiques are reserved for translators who embellish or expand on an original text without adding anything useful or interesting. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/o...
Emily Wilson Chooses Her Words Carefully
The Homeric scholar’s new book on translation is bitingly smart.
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September 20, 2026 at 9:30 PM
In her new book, Emily Wilson’s harshest critiques are reserved for translators who embellish or expand on an original text without adding anything useful or interesting. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/o...
“Seasons of Fury” by Rozina Ali illuminates the policies and practices that shaped Americans’ suspicion of Muslims decades both before and after 9/11. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/r...
How Americanness Overcomes Islamophobia
In Rozina Ali’s new book, four families grapple with the post-9/11 shift.
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September 20, 2026 at 5:30 PM
“Seasons of Fury” by Rozina Ali illuminates the policies and practices that shaped Americans’ suspicion of Muslims decades both before and after 9/11. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/r...
The Trump administration has given China a freer hand to reshape the international system to Beijing’s advantage. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/c...
China, Not Iran, Is Trump’s Real Foreign-Policy Debacle
In 19 months, Washington has lost ground to Beijing on every conceivable front.
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September 20, 2026 at 1:30 PM
The Trump administration has given China a freer hand to reshape the international system to Beijing’s advantage. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/c...
Both Trump and Putin believed their own propaganda and convinced themselves that their wars would be concluded swiftly with no meaningful resistance. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/k...
In War, Trump and Putin Are Much Alike
Washington is emulating Moscow’s ways of fighting wars—and helping it in the process.
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September 19, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Both Trump and Putin believed their own propaganda and convinced themselves that their wars would be concluded swiftly with no meaningful resistance. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/k...
Brazil, a founding member of BRICS and the host of last year’s summit, has had a difficult time steering the grouping’s priorities since it expanded from five to nine members in 2024. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/b...
What the BRICS Summit Meant for Brazil
One year after hosting the event, is the country still shaping the bloc?
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September 19, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Brazil, a founding member of BRICS and the host of last year’s summit, has had a difficult time steering the grouping’s priorities since it expanded from five to nine members in 2024. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/b...
A decade after they laid down their arms, ex-combatants in Colombia fear the new president’s policies will unsettle their lives. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/c...
The Lives Built on Colombia’s Peace Deal Are at Risk
The new president is unsettling the combatants who laid down their arms a decade ago.
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September 19, 2026 at 1:30 PM
A decade after they laid down their arms, ex-combatants in Colombia fear the new president’s policies will unsettle their lives. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/c...
World Brief: Russia kicks off its first State Duma elections since the Ukraine war began, Iran holds a massive rally to promote loyalty to the regime, and the leaders of Britain and Ireland choose not to discuss Irish reunification. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/r...
Russia’s Parliamentary Elections Offer Rituals, Not Results
Polling shows that United Russia is all but certain to maintain its power.
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September 19, 2026 at 1:30 AM
World Brief: Russia kicks off its first State Duma elections since the Ukraine war began, Iran holds a massive rally to promote loyalty to the regime, and the leaders of Britain and Ireland choose not to discuss Irish reunification. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/r...
Houthi motivations cannot be reduced solely to Iranian grand strategy. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/h...
The Houthi Advance Is About More Than Just Iran
The Saudi-Emirati rivalry is driving moves across the region.
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September 18, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Houthi motivations cannot be reduced solely to Iranian grand strategy. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/18/h...
The new Hungarian government has a unique chance to reestablish viewers’ faith in independent but state-funded press. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/h...
How Do You Dismantle a Propaganda Machine?
Peter Magyar is on a mission to restore Hungarians’ faith in public media.
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September 18, 2026 at 9:30 PM
The new Hungarian government has a unique chance to reestablish viewers’ faith in independent but state-funded press. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/h...
Germany’s political establishment is clueless about how to handle the AfD’s surge. Do the country’s historians have an answer? foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/a...
What's the Matter With Eastern Germany?
German far-right populism traces back to reunification—but historians disagree about why.
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September 18, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Germany’s political establishment is clueless about how to handle the AfD’s surge. Do the country’s historians have an answer? foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/a...
Trump directed the government to partner with “vetted” private companies to conduct cyberattacks and surveillance against foreign transnational criminal networks that target U.S. citizens. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/t...
Trump’s Risky Hack-Back Plan
The U.S. president wants tech companies to go on the cyber-offensive. Will it work?
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September 18, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Trump directed the government to partner with “vetted” private companies to conduct cyberattacks and surveillance against foreign transnational criminal networks that target U.S. citizens. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/t...
The fighting has exposed serious vulnerabilities for the U.S. military and left its forces spread thin, cost the United States an estimated $38.1 billion so far, and caused a global energy crisis. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/t...
By Nearly Every Metric, the U.S. Is Losing the Iran War
“It’s irrefutable that the U.S. failed in its main strategic goals,” one expert said.
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September 18, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The fighting has exposed serious vulnerabilities for the U.S. military and left its forces spread thin, cost the United States an estimated $38.1 billion so far, and caused a global energy crisis. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/t...
Across the Indo-Pacific, the weakening of America’s security assurances is pushing countries to hedge in their relations with Beijing as a form of strategic balancing. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/c...
China, Not Iran, Is Trump’s Real Foreign-Policy Debacle
In 19 months, Washington has lost ground to Beijing on every conceivable front.
foreignpolicy.com
September 18, 2026 at 11:30 AM
Across the Indo-Pacific, the weakening of America’s security assurances is pushing countries to hedge in their relations with Beijing as a form of strategic balancing. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/c...
World Brief: Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson resigns; a U.N. mission accuses the United States and Iran of war crimes and crimes against humanity, respectively; and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney embraces the idea of joining the European Union. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/s...
Sweden’s Right-Wing Reckoning
What was expected to be an easy election win resulted in a narrow victory for the left.
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September 18, 2026 at 1:30 AM
World Brief: Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson resigns; a U.N. mission accuses the United States and Iran of war crimes and crimes against humanity, respectively; and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney embraces the idea of joining the European Union. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/17/s...
Xi’s visit to New Delhi marked the culmination, not the commencement, of India-China detente. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/m...
Modi and Xi’s Meeting Caps a Detente
Despite the thaw, India-China rivalry remains inevitable.
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September 17, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Xi’s visit to New Delhi marked the culmination, not the commencement, of India-China detente. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/m...
Though the civil war in Myanmar is seldom a leading story in mainstream Western media, the United States’ Christian right is paying close attention. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/t...
Trump, God, and the Struggle for the Chin State
The MAGA movement has been a source of hope and headaches for Myanmar’s Christian diaspora and the rebels they support.
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September 17, 2026 at 9:30 PM
Though the civil war in Myanmar is seldom a leading story in mainstream Western media, the United States’ Christian right is paying close attention. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/t...
Georgian officers now read social media accounts, collect screenshots, and bring citizens to court over heated language. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/g...
Georgia’s Government Is Using Civility as an Excuse to Crush Critics
New policies against online “vulgarity” target free speech.
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September 17, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Georgian officers now read social media accounts, collect screenshots, and bring citizens to court over heated language. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/g...
What little space remains for anti-war politicians in Russia is closing. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/r...
Russia Purges Its Last Anti-War Politicians
Ahead of the first State Duma elections since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, few are left to speak for peace.
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September 17, 2026 at 5:30 PM
What little space remains for anti-war politicians in Russia is closing. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/r...
A summit with Trump could help Kim Jong Un normalize both his country’s nuclear status and the prospect of a fourth generation of family rule. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/n...
The Next Trump-Kim Summit Could Be About North Korea’s Future Ruler
Kim Jong Un may be ready to introduce his daughter on the global stage.
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September 17, 2026 at 3:30 PM
A summit with Trump could help Kim Jong Un normalize both his country’s nuclear status and the prospect of a fourth generation of family rule. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/n...
The appointment of a new top army commander is the latest in a series of military reforms ahead of Nigeria’s general elections in January, in which insecurity will be high on the list of voters’ concerns. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/n...
What’s Behind Nigeria’s Military Spending Spree
Ahead of January elections, Bola Tinubu is pulling out all the stops to stem insecurity.
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September 17, 2026 at 11:30 AM
The appointment of a new top army commander is the latest in a series of military reforms ahead of Nigeria’s general elections in January, in which insecurity will be high on the list of voters’ concerns. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/n...
Kevin Warsh, the man Trump tapped to lower interest rates, on Wednesday presided over a unanimous decision to hike U.S. borrowing costs for the first time in three years due to concern over rising inflation. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/f...
The Fed Bucks Trump and Raises Interest Rates
War-fueled inflation remains too high, the U.S. central bank said, requiring the first hike in three years.
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September 16, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Kevin Warsh, the man Trump tapped to lower interest rates, on Wednesday presided over a unanimous decision to hike U.S. borrowing costs for the first time in three years due to concern over rising inflation. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/f...
A new amnesty law reflects a subtle shift in the balance of power toward Lebanon’s Sunnis. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/l...
Lebanon’s New Amnesty Law Shows Sunnis’ Growing Power
How regional developments helped Lebanese Islamists get out of jail.
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September 16, 2026 at 9:30 PM
A new amnesty law reflects a subtle shift in the balance of power toward Lebanon’s Sunnis. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/l...
The debate around existential risk to humanity from AI obfuscates the many real-world harms that the technology is already causing, writes FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/a...
Why Existential AI Fears Have Hit a Crescendo
And the complicated geopolitics of slowing down the technology’s development.
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September 16, 2026 at 7:30 PM
The debate around existential risk to humanity from AI obfuscates the many real-world harms that the technology is already causing, writes FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/a...
This week in the southern Filipino archipelago of Mindanao, an election in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region was supposed to settle a decades-old conflict. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/b...
A Bumpy Peace Election in the Philippines
On a majority-Muslim island, federalists are sparring with Islamists.
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September 16, 2026 at 5:30 PM
This week in the southern Filipino archipelago of Mindanao, an election in the Bangsamoro Autonomous Region was supposed to settle a decades-old conflict. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/16/b...
The two countries have fundamentally different understandings of AI risk. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/15/c...
Trump and Xi Won’t Find Common Ground on AI Safety
The leaders have fundamentally different ideas about the technology and how to regulate it.
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September 16, 2026 at 3:30 PM
The two countries have fundamentally different understandings of AI risk. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/15/c...