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What Was the War on Terror?
A defining period in U.S. foreign policy has ended, but it remains misunderstood. 
The Conservative Case for International Law
Why the U.S. right should rediscover the virtues of a global legal order.
Soccer’s Favorite Strongman
José Mourinho’s lessons on how to influence people (and not win friends).
The Novel Imagining Life After a Second Civil War
Emily St. John Mandel explores what follows U.S. collapse, plus more fiction in September.
Asia-Pacific
Nepal’s Disaster Demands a Regional Response
China
Nepal’s Deadly Floods Put China and India on Edge
Europe
Washington’s Absence Is Inviting the War Europe Fears Most
Middle East & Africa
Turkey’s Kurdish Peace Process Is Not About Erdogan
Americas
Trump Has Peaked
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference in Jerusalem on March 19. -
USA's goalkeeper Charlie Lindgren reacts during the IIHF Men's Ice Hockey World Championship quarter-final match between the United States and Czech Republic in Prague on May 23, 2024. -
Portraits of former United Nations Secretary Generals are displayed in the U.N.'s headquarters in Manhattan on September 09, 2025, in New York City. -
Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korean Foreign Affairs Minister Choe Son Hui during a meeting in Moscow on July 19.
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A photo collage illustration featuring a repeated pattern of a man sitting in a green tufted armchair holding a small American flag, positioned along a cabinet room table. Above them against a textured red background looms a large, cropped grayscale face of a man looking forward. A Cabinet Full of Roy Cohns
Trump’s longtime mentor is the true father of the president’s second-term abuses, a new book posits.
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Black and white photograph showing a line of uniformed service members seen from behind, looking up at five military airplanes flying overhead in formation against a cloudy sky. -
A vintage postcard illustration showing censorship, with a Russian editor crushed by the new rules, introduced during the Russian Revolution. -
Young children in matching red shirts or dresses and floral-patterned pinafores sing or chant while holding yellow booklets. A wall beyond them is bright blue and red.
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How China’s Rise Upended Climate Politics
As the West debated a green energy future, Beijing was building it.
The U.S.-Israel Alliance Isn’t Special Anymore
A joint war against Iran might be its apex.
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Washington Is Creating Forever Enemies
The United States must learn to forget the pain of humiliation.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About IR Grad School
Some straight talk for prospective students from a longtime professor.
China’s Success Is Forcing a U.S. AI Rethink
Silicon Valley obsessions may have led Washington down a dead end.
Is Europe Ready for a New Era of Russian Dirty Tricks?
After the Kremlin’s failure in Ukraine, Putin’s new plan aims westward.
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Graphic illustration splitting a man's face down the middle. The right side shows his face against a blue background, while the left side features a red background with a missile launching upwards, leaving behind a trail of smoke. A border of white stars lines the bottom and left edges of the image. Jared Kushner Is the Face of American Oligarchy
Trump’s son-in-law embodies the rise of a trend that threatens to ignite a new nuclear age.
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Bookcover of Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian, A Sixth of Humanity: Independent India’s Development Odyssey features a busy train station in India on the cover. -
Book cover titled "Few and Far Between" by Jan Carson against a light grey background. The cover art features a vertical aerial shot of a dark blue waterway surrounded by green landmasses, with a small red-and-white rowboat floating in the center. -
Book cover for "Resurgence & Revolution: The PKK and the Kurdish Fight in Turkey and Syria" by Aliza Marcus. The cover shows a line of uniformed fighters walking single file along a rocky hilltop against a pale sky.
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Book cover titled "What Happened to Liberal Democracy?" in large blue text, with the author's name "Daron Acemoglu" in red text below. The cover is white with a gold round seal on the right side reading "Recipient of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences," and small red text at the bottom reading "Coauthor of Why Nations Fail." -
The book cover for "The Quiet American" features a pink background covered in an abstract black pattern. Three yellow rectangular blocks overlay the pattern, displaying the title "The Quiet American," the descriptor "a novel," and the author's name "Graham Greene" in dark cursive lettering. -
Front cover of the book "The Best and the Brightest" by David Halberstam. The dark blue cover features a review quote at the top above an emblem of the United States presidential seal. To the right, a red starburst graphic reads "The #1 New York Times Bestseller." Below, the title is written in large yellow text flanked by two small white stars, with the author's name printed inside a red section at the bottom.
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A creative illustration against a pale yellow background showing a garden planter containing a dense green hedge. Five human arms emerge from the hedge, with four of the hands holding small flags of China, Russia, the United States, and the European Union, while the fifth hand holds the flag of India. Hedging Is the New Normal
For the foreseeable future, successful statecraft will depend on hedging.
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A Cameroonian construction worker, employed by a Chinese firm, works at the Kribi Deepwater Port in Cameroon.
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An illustration collage featuring a profile portrait of a man in a suit on the right side. The left side shows a stylized orange silhouette of his head containing the Great Seal of the United States. The background consists of a dark map of the Middle East with various locations labeled, including Turkey, Syria, Israel, and Iran. The overall color palette uses dark tones with high-contrast red and white accents. -
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