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Benin’s Failed Coup Reveals Deepening Fault Lines in Africa
The foiled putsch placed the continent’s geopolitics under a magnifying glass.
Trump’s AI Mineral Hunt Goes Global
The White House’s tech ambitions have intensified its critical minerals scramble.
Trump Hasn’t Learned From History in Latin America
The former leaders of Colombia and Mexico are concerned over recent U.S. actions
U.S. Strategists Keep Getting France’s Defeat Wrong
Myths about the Maginot Line are strangely persistent.
Asia & the Pacific
Key Figure to Return for Bangladesh Elections
China
What’s It Like to Be a Chinese Soldier?
Middle East & Africa
How to Keep Gaza’s Recovery From Becoming an 80-Year Project
Europe
Trump’s Business Model Is to Break Europe
Americas
The Silver Lining of ‘Haiti Fatigue’
Trump’s National Security Strategy
Trump’s National Security Strategy Is a Blueprint for the Demise of the West
The White House’s agenda may not be coherent, but it is deeply dangerous.
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Trump, Hegseth, Rubio, and other officials sit at a table with papers and namecards in front of them. Hegseth has one hand raised and his mouth open as he speaks. Beside him, Trump is blinking and frowning.
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang talks to a robot during a keynote session at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 18.
What Happens to China’s Surplus Men?
The one-child policy’s gender imbalance has spawned desperate bachelors, dubious gurus, and a rising manosphere.
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Joe Biden, in silhouette, walks up stairs to board a plane, with ominous dark clouds in the background.
Trump’s Foreign-Policy Shifts
Reports and analysis from staff and contributors.
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U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Vietnamese Defense Minister Phan Van Giang shake hands at the Defense Ministry’s headquarters in Hanoi, Vietnam, on Nov. 2. -
Putin, Modi, and Xi at the 2025 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit
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Maduro speaks into a microphone as he stands with his fists raised while wearing a red baseball cap and a red-and-white striped button-down shirt. People onstage behind him smile toward the camera.
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COLLECTIONS:
When the Democratic Recession Comes Home
Michael McFaul wants more democracy promotion. Is now the time?
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The book cover for The West by Georgios Varouxakis
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Inside the Situation Room: The Theory and Practice of Crisis Decision-Making, ed. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo, Oxford University Press, 512 pp., $29.99, September 2025 -
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In Case You Missed It
A selection of paywall-free articles
Four Explanatory Models for Trump’s Chaos
It’s clear that the second Trump administration is aiming for change—not inertia—in U.S. foreign policy.
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An illustration shows a golden Cybertruck blasting through a U.S. seal of an eagle holding arrows and laurel.
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Visual Stories
Syria’s Yazidi Community Faces the Future With Concern
Having survived Assad and the Islamic State, Yazidis remain suspicious of Sharaa’s government.
On Syria’s Coast, Alawite Communities Wait for Justice
Rights advocates say the lack of accountability for massacres in March could have profound consequences.
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