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Quiz What in the World? Test yourself on the week of March 29: Pete Hegseth travels to Asia, France’s far-right leader is barred from office, and China conducts military drills around Taiwan. By Drew Gorman, a deputy copy editor at Foreign Policy. Marine Le Pen, the leader of France’s National Rally parliamentary group, sits in…
An illustrated scene shows a person looing up at tall buildings and signs with drones and surveillance cameras plus a looming statue holding a hammer and sickle. Images from “You Must Take Part in Revolution: A Graphic Novel.” Street Noise Books Review Hong Kong’s Warning Signs for America A graphic novel plays out a nightmarish…
<!–> The Final Four is a huge milestone for any college basketball player. It’s one weekend to define an individual and a collective team’s destiny on the sport’s biggest stage. Illustrious scoring performances can be the catalyst for lifting a team into the national championship. With this year’s Final Four beginning Saturday, we took a…
Dispatch East Berlin’s Last Punks Are Moving West A small rock club is still raging against the dying of the city’s Cold War subculture. April 4, 2025, 2:45 PM Comment icon View Comments () By Paul Hockenos, a Berlin-based journalist. A man in a sleeveless shirt drinks a bear as another man looks at him….
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Hedge funds have been hit with the biggest margin calls since Covid shut down huge parts of the global economy in 2020, after Donald Trump’s tariffs triggered a powerful rout in global financial…
Analysis Russian Won’t Be Kyrgyzstan’s Lingua Franca for Long The war in Ukraine is leading to a linguistic backlash in Russophone Central Asia as young people embrace their mother tongues. April 4, 2025, 2:30 PM Comment icon View Comments () By Haley Zehrung is a journalist and photographer who has lived and worked in Kyrgyzstan,…
Excerpt Who Is Viktor Bout, Really? An investigative journalist heads to Moscow to hear from the “merchant of death” himself. April 4, 2025, 2:30 PM Comment icon View Comments () By Cathy Scott-Clark, an award-winning investigative journalist and author. A man sits behind jail bars while wearing an orange shirt. Viktor Bout sits in a…
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Mexican and Canadian officials spent Wednesday afternoon frantically searching Donald Trump’s “reciprocal tariff” list for the latest bad news from Washington, only to discover they had been granted a reprieve. An exemption for…
Books The Novels We’re Reading in April Two head-spinning rides through a globalized world. April 4, 2025, 2:00 PM Comment icon View Comments () By Chloe Hadavas, a senior editor at Foreign Policy, and Allison Meakem, an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Books-in-brief-foreign-policy-April Politics United States Iran This month, we’re reading about a listless Hungarian…
