There is something mysterious about how a coffee bean becomes a commodity. From remote farmsteads and steep hillsides, it finds its way into global markets as a weighed, graded, standardized ...
The United States and its allies need each other more than ever. That’s the overarching message U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan sought to convey to an audience in Washington—and ...
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Chinese duties on European spirits, interest in a possible Hezbollah-Israel cease-fire, and Jammu and Kashmir’s legislative elections. Glass Half Empty Europe’s ...
In May, for the first time since the end of apartheid, the African National Congress (ANC) lost its parliamentary majority in South Africa. It cobbled together a government, but the ...
Small European states, such as Denmark, face daily the threat of an environmental Armageddon, as dozens of decrepit, single-hulled, barely insured Russian oil tankers wend their way through the narrowest ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to open his country’s vast economy to the world’s emerging nations, pledging on Sept. 5 to introduce a regime of zero tariffs for the ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The U.S. Congress considers a series of bills targeting China as lawmakers return from summer recess, former Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang ...
Around this time last year, during a speaking visit to Pennsylvania, I found the time to go to one of the most unusual parks I have seen in my life. ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s Africa Brief. The highlights this week: Tensions on Ethiopia’s borders with Somalia and Sudan, mpox vaccines aren’t reaching the Democratic Republic of the Congo quickly enough, ...
In Western markets, large SUV and pickup truck sales have hit new highs. “f SUVs were a country, they would be the world’s fifth-largest emitter of CO2,” Patrick Schröder wrote ...
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