What the Stoic Philosophers Can Teach Today’s Policymakers
The first months of President Donald Trump’s return to the White House have been disorienting. Talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state and acquiring Panama and Greenland by force ...
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How Generations of Experts Built U.S. Power
The Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously wrote that war is a “mere continuation of policy by other means,” but he did not mean that war is merely politics. ...
Photos show how the White House’s decor has changed over the years
A new painting of Donald Trump in the White House Entrance Hall.Win McNamee/Getty ImagesThe White House has 132 rooms, and each new US president gets $100,000 to redecorate them.With every ...
The Fight Over Language, From Haiti to Kyrgyzstan
In the coming weeks, Flash Points will have a new name: The Reading List. Expect continued curated guides to the best articles in the magazine. Each Sunday, I’ll take you ...
The Awful History of Tariffs and Depressions
It is rare that we can watch the unfolding of a global economic downturn with such precision as we can today. With a 145 percent U.S. tariff on China and ...
The U.S. Has Never Known What to Do With Foreign Students
As I watched the recent video of federal agents descending on Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University Ph.D. student and Turkish national, I thought of Wai-Hing Tso—the first Chinese student to ...
A Truly Patriotic Education Tells Many Stories
When my youngest child was in 6th grade in the fall of 2020, he was required to take Minnesota history. That year, thanks to the pandemic, school mostly happened in ...
Introducing Foreign Policy’s Spring 2025 Issue
The image of the world’s most powerful CEOs attending Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20 is seared by now in our collective memories. Power attracts money, of course—especially if tax ...
This Is the Europe Dwight Eisenhower Wanted
“Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Italy, and Western Germany should form one federated state. To help this America could afford to spend a lot, because we’d get something successful, strong, ...
How Nixon Pushed Allies to Build the Bomb
Concerns about nuclear proliferation, already heightened by the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, have reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, as analysts worry that the Trump administration’s apparent ...
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