How Assassinations Became Normal Again
What do the killing of influencer Charlie Kirk and Israel’s unsuccessful attempt to kill some top Hamas officials by bombing Qatar have in common? There are obvious and important differences: ...
Tag: United States
Trump Is Ushering in the Era of the Strongman
The first time that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration carried out a deadly aerial strike against a high-speed boat allegedly crewed by a drug cartel as it headed north into ...
Why Charlie Kirk’s White Nationalism Resonated With Some Nonwhites Abroad
Just days before his death, Charlie Kirk was on a speaking tour in Asia—stopping in South Korea and Japan. At Build Up Korea 2025 in Seoul, under elaborate pyrotechnics, he told a ...
Trump’s U.K. Trip Draws Pageantry and Protest
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at U.S. President Donald Trump’s visit to the United Kingdom, the European Union’s plans to impose tariffs on Israel, and an interest ...
The Biggest Threat to the Dollar Is Coming From Inside the White House
The U.S. dollar, for all the incessant handwringing over its imminent demise as the global reserve currency, remains clearly ensconced on its throne. But that could start to change as ...
Is America Becoming More Violent?
The killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in Utah last Wednesday sent shockwaves across the United States and is already having rippling consequences amid a historically divisive period. Utah Gov. ...
The West Is Losing Georgia to Russia, Zourabichvili Says
Georgian politician Salome Zourabichvili has been among the vanguard pushing for the country to swing back toward its formerly Western direction and away from Russian and Chinese influence. It hasn’t ...
U.S., China Talk Trade and TikTok
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The United States and China enter another round of trade negotiations, Beijing mulls a local government bailout, and a leak of ...
U.S., China Reach ‘Framework’ TikTok Deal
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at a U.S.-China TikTok agreement, indirect parliamentary elections in Syria, and the reformist makeup of Nepal’s interim cabinet. From ByteDance to … ...
Fixing Foreign Aid Requires Confronting Fundamental Tensions
Amid the widespread outcry over the destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development, many of the agency’s defenders concede that the U.S. aid system needs to be reformed. They ...
