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Review Do Human Rights Have a Future? The strategies that once guided advocacy are no longer adequate in a world led by strongmen. March 14, 2025, 2:30 PM Comment icon View Comments () By Leonard Benardo, senior vice president for the Open Society Foundations, and Omar Waraich, a director at the Open Society Foundations. Kenneth…

Analysis Can Charities Serve Both God and Trump? Christian groups are being stripped of aid funding by the U.S. government. March 14, 2025, 2:00 PM Comment icon View Comments () By Ken Chitwood, a religion scholar and reporter based in Germany. Donated clothing to be shipped abroad is gathered by the Church World Service in…

Q&A “He’ll Make Mincemeat of the Second-Raters in the Trump Team” New Canadian leader Carney seen as a tough negotiator who doesn’t suffer fools. By Cameron Abadi, a deputy editor at Foreign Policy, and Adam Tooze, a columnist at Foreign Policy and director of the European Institute at Columbia University. Sign up for Adam’s Chartbook…

Quiz What in the World? Test yourself on the week of March 8: Myanmar announces elections, Canada’s Liberal Party picks a new leader, and Rodrigo Duterte is arrested. By Drew Gorman, a deputy copy editor at Foreign Policy. People hang up campaign posters in front of a polling station in Ilulissat, Greenland. People hang up…

Analysis What China Wants From Iran Nuclear Talks Beijing is partners with Tehran but fears the nuclear crisis could be reaching a “critical juncture.” By Lili Pike, a reporter at Foreign Policy. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, center, meets with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov, left, and Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazeem Gharibabadi before…

Analysis The Cost of Ignoring Geopolitics Like Napoleon and the Ming dynasty, Europe is paying the price for strategic blindness. By Jo Inge Bekkevold, a senior China fellow at the Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte leads the final assault by the Imperial Guard before his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo…

Analysis Will Trump Use the Federal Reserve as Leverage, Too? When the next crisis hits, global markets may not be able to count on America’s financial backstop. By Christopher Smart, the founder of the Arbroath Group. A trader works at the New York Stock Exchange shortly before trading was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic…

Report PEPFAR Cuts Hit Uganda’s Most Vulnerable Without U.S. support, few options remain for those fighting HIV. By Andrew Green, a freelance journalist based in Berlin. Two women sit on either side of a wooden desk in a brightly-lit tent. One woman is seen from behind, resting her elbows on the desk and her chin…

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Argument An expert’s point of view on a current event. An Unreliable America Means More Countries Want the Bomb Without credible U.S. security guarantees, nuclear proliferation is likely to increase rapidly across Europe and Asia. By Debak Das, an assistant professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver, and…