Foreign Policy Magazine - home page
Primary featured article section
Europe Still Lives in a Security Utopia
Its international goals are not backed up by any real ability to promote or defend them.
Trump’s Defense Plans Are a Reagan Redux
Both men granted the Pentagon blank checks to spend on their outlandish national-security obsessions.
Trump Is Losing Asia
An incoherent policy is speeding Beijing’s rise.
Who Will Be the New Pope?
After Francis’s death, conservatives and liberals contest the papal legacy.
Asia & the Pacific
U.S. Eyes Pakistan’s Mineral Wealth
China
Trump’s Trade War Should Target China’s Forced Labor
Middle East & Africa
The New Syria Is Run Like the Old
Europe
‘Andor’ Is a Chilling Vision of Fascism and Resistance in a Galaxy Far, Far Away
Americas
Trump’s Predatory Capitalism Does Nothing for America’s Workers
In the Magazine
Current Issue: Spring 2025
Archives
Is America a Kleptocracy?
Here’s how life could change for the rich, poor, and everyone in between.
Elon Musk’s First Principles
The world’s richest man wants to apply the rules of physics to politics. What could go wrong?
How Generations of Experts Built U.S. Power
And now Trump is throwing it all away.
-
A photo illustration of the Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius wearing a red MAGA hat that reads "Power is never the objective." -
A very large sign reading "Make Londongrad London Again, Say No to Money Laundering" is held up against the sky. -
A drawn illustration showing traditional Gujarati food on the left and meat dishes on the right. Hands reach from either side to pull at the green tablecloth to hide and push aside the meat offerings.
Updates: Trump’s Foreign-Policy Shifts
Reports and analysis from staff and contributors.
-
U.S. President Donald Trump is displayed on a television screen as traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City. -
A person stands on a scaffolding platform hanging from ropes along the exterior wall of a large building with a massive mural on the side. The mural shows the American flag with skulls instead of white stars and the words "Down with the USA" stenciled over the stripes. -
Workers manufacture semiconductor chips at a facility in Suqian, China.
-
Journalists at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty attend a planning meeting in their bureau in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on April 28, 2023. -
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Randy George speaks to U.S. soldiers at the Hohenfels Training Area in southern Germany on Feb. 6. -
U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks alongside Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 10.
Subscribers’ Picks
Why Beijing Thinks It Can Beat Trump
China’s elites have a new confidence in their own system.
A Drawdown of U.S. Forces in Europe Is All but Certain
Here’s how the Pentagon can rebalance its approach to the continent without sacrificing U.S. interests.
Why Authoritarians Attack Universities First
A Yale professor and expert on fascism talks about why he’s leaving the United States under Trump.
How Generations of Experts Built U.S. Power
And now Trump is throwing it all away.
FP Live Events
Join in-depth conversations and interact with foreign-policy experts. Upcoming Past Insider Access About
Understanding Trump’s First 100 Days
As the world scrambles to make sense of a rapidly-changing Washington, FP columnist Emma Ashford will take stock of the administration's moves and motivations.
A Dialogue With Russia’s Dark Side
A new book tries to understand the once-idealistic Russian journalists who now propagandize for Putin.
-
The Anaconda in the Chandelier: Writings on China, Perry Link, Paul Dry Books, 287 pp., $24.95, February 2025. -
The book cover for You Must Take Part in Revolution -
The book cover for Russia's Man of War: The Extraordinary Viktor Bout
-
Books-in-brief-foreign-policy-April -
The book cover for Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What it Means for America by Paola Ramos -
The book cover for The Lions' Den
In Case You Missed It
A selection of paywall-free articles
America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up
Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences. 
-
An illustration shows the Statue of Liberty holding a torch with other hands alongside hers as she lifts the flame, also resembling laurel, into place on the edge of the United Nations laurel logo. -
Chinese soldiers in Belarus for military training. -
An illustration shows Russian President Vladimir Putin on a television set with spinning lines behind him for a story about Russia's TV propaganda.
-
An illustration shows half faces of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Putin for a story about a ChiRussia alliance. -
A photo illustration shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden posing on pedestals atop the bipolar world order, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Russian President Vladamir Putin standing below on a gridded floor. -
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greet each other at the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on July 27, 2018.
Visual Stories
The Periodic Table of States
The org chart for a post-Westphalian world.
Shooting an Elephant in Botswana
Trophy hunting is uncomfortable for some in the West but a lifeline for many locals.
Loading graphics
