Cambodian PM: Never Mind, Don’t Call Me Lord Prime …

Siobhán O'Grady |

A Different ‘Brexit’ Problem Just Killed 12 Indonesians

Siobhán O'Grady |

Your Guide to Another Hillary Clinton Email Investigation

John Hudson |

Snipers Launched Coordinated Attack Against Dallas Police at…

David Francis |

Situation Report: Police gunned down in Dallas

David Francis |

White House Issues Strict Rules for Arctic Drilling

David Francis |

With New German Law, Nein Might Finally Mean Nein

Siobhán O'Grady |

House Republicans Aim To Take Down Boeing’s Deal With Iran

David Francis |

Paul Ryan: Clinton Shouldn’t Get Classified Briefings

Molly O’Toole |

Your Guide to Another Hillary Clinton Email Investigation

John Hudson |

Snipers Launched Coordinated Attack Against Dallas Police at…

David Francis |

Situation Report: Police gunned down in Dallas

David Francis |

White House Issues Strict Rules for Arctic Drilling

David Francis |

House Republicans Aim To Take Down Boeing’s Deal With Iran

David Francis |

Paul Ryan: Clinton Shouldn’t Get Classified Briefings

Molly O’Toole |

Situation Report: Obama Slows Troop Withdrawal from …

David Francis |

Attorney General Says Clinton Will Face No Charges for Email…

Elias Groll |

A Brief History of Donald Trump’s Love Affair With Saddam …

Molly O’Toole |

Cambodian PM: Never Mind, Don’t Call Me Lord Prime …

Siobhán O'Grady |

A Different ‘Brexit’ Problem Just Killed 12 Indonesians

Siobhán O'Grady |

With New German Law, Nein Might Finally Mean Nein

Siobhán O'Grady |

Netanyahu: No, I Was Not Almost Assassinated in Kenya

Siobhán O'Grady |

How ‘The Rock’ May Have Helped Drag Britain Into the …

Elias Groll |

Can South Africa Finally Stop Caring About Oscar Pistorius …

Siobhán O'Grady |

Ukraine’s Former Prime Minister on Dirty Politics, …

Reid Standish |

The President of Uganda Kept Calling Israel ‘Palestine’ …

Siobhán O'Grady |

The Other 4th of July

Benjamin Soloway |

Disband the African Union

George B.N. Ayittey |

Why China Says No to the Arbitration on the South China Sea

Fu Ying |

Britain Needs a New Place to Park Its Nukes

Dan De Luce |

Renewed Violence in South Sudan Threatens Fragile Peace …

Jason Patinkin |

How Kenya Cleaned Up Its Courts

Maya Gainer |

Can Indonesia Afford a Fish War With China?

Keith Johnson |

The Independence Day Nobody’s Celebrating

Jason Patinkin |

Longform's Picks of the Week

FP Staff |

From Cocaine Cowboys to Narco-Ranchers

Saul Elbein |

Britain Needs a New Place to Park Its Nukes

Dan De Luce |

Introducing the Universal, All-Purpose Task Force Title …

Stephen M. Walt |

Snipers Launched Coordinated Attack Against Dallas Police at…

David Francis |

Relative of American Jailed in Iran Pleads for U.S. Help

Dan De Luce |

White House Issues Strict Rules for Arctic Drilling

David Francis |

First, They Came for the Experts

James Traub |

House Republicans Aim To Take Down Boeing’s Deal With Iran

David Francis |

Iran's Parchin Particles: Why Should Two Mites of Uranium …

William Tobey |

One Cheer for Obama’s Executive Order on Drone Strikes

Rachel Reid |

Why China Says No to the Arbitration on the South China Sea

Fu Ying |

Can Indonesia Afford a Fish War With China?

Keith Johnson |

Beijing Establishes a D.C. Think Tank, and No One Notices

Isaac Stone Fish |

U.S. Sanctions Kim Jong Un For First Time for Human Rights …

John Hudson |

The World’s Rising Powers Have Fallen

Suzanne Nossel |

China's Big Takeover Battle

Lorand C. Laskai |

Beijing Takes its South China Sea PR Campaign to Washington

Dan De Luce |

FBI Recommends No Charges For Clinton in Email Case

Elias Groll |

Longform’s Picks of the Week

FP Staff |

Disband the African Union

George B.N. Ayittey |

Britain Needs a New Place to Park Its Nukes

Dan De Luce |

Brexit’s Blowback on the Liberal World Order

Daniel Twining |

The Tragic Downfall of British Media

Steven Barnett |

First, They Came for the Experts

James Traub |

With New German Law, Nein Might Finally Mean Nein

Siobhán O'Grady |

House Republicans Aim To Take Down Boeing’s Deal With Iran

David Francis |

Germany Is Rekindling Its Bromance With Russia

Hans Kundnani |

Europe’s Freedom of Speech Fail

Jacob Mchangama |

Disband the African Union

George B.N. Ayittey |

Renewed Violence in South Sudan Threatens Fragile Peace …

Jason Patinkin |

How Kenya Cleaned Up Its Courts

Maya Gainer |

The Independence Day Nobody’s Celebrating

Jason Patinkin |

Relative of American Jailed in Iran Pleads for U.S. Help

Dan De Luce |

House Republicans Aim To Take Down Boeing’s Deal With Iran

David Francis |

Netanyahu: No, I Was Not Almost Assassinated in Kenya

Siobhán O'Grady |

Keep Up the Pressure on Iran

Adam Ereli |

Troubled Waters

Solmaz Daryani |

A grunt’s thoughts on the loss of Kunduz: I used to tell …

Thomas E. Ricks |

Situation Report: Obama Slows Troop Withdrawal from …

David Francis |

One Cheer for Obama’s Executive Order on Drone Strikes

Rachel Reid |

Sheikh Hasina Must Call Islamist Terrorism What It Is

Brandon Miliate |

Obama Slows Withdrawal From a War He Pledged to End

Dan De Luce |

The World’s Rising Powers Have Fallen

Suzanne Nossel |

White House Drone Release Is Big on Numbers, Short on Detail

Paul McLeary |

Around the World in 40 Books

Britt Peterson |

‘Carnal Intercourse Against the Order of Nature’ Is …

Benjamin Soloway |

How Kenya Cleaned Up Its Courts

Maya Gainer |

The IMF Confronts Its N-Word

Rick Rowden |

It’s Not All Doom And Gloom in Southeast Asia

Nicholas Borroz |

As Elections Loom, There's a Crisis at South Africa's Public…

Tyler McBrien |

How Being Stateless Makes You Poor

Jennifer Guay |

The New Burma Is Starting to Look Too Much Like the Old Burma

Elliott Prasse-Freeman |

Bahrain Tightens the Screws

Emanuel Stoakes |

It's Time for Europe to Walk Away From Its Refugee Deal With…

Nate Schenkkan |

Start-Ups For the State

Tik Root |

How Fake Democracies Damage Real Ones

Brian Klaas |

Argentina's Deal With the Devil

Juan Cristóbal Nagel |

Why Young Americans Are Giving Up on Capitalism

Sarah Kendzior |

White House Issues Strict Rules for Arctic Drilling

David Francis |

House Republicans Aim To Take Down Boeing’s Deal With Iran

David Francis |

The U.S. Fed Saw the Negative Consequences of the Brexit …

David Francis |

The World’s Rising Powers Have Fallen

Suzanne Nossel |

Britain’s Plummeting Pound Is Bad News for America

David Francis |

Senate Pulls Puerto Rico Back From the Brink of Fiscal Ruin

David Francis |

Trump Accuses Clinton of Betraying American Workers

David Francis |

Volkswagen’s $14.7 Billion Settlement With the U.S. Is …

David Francis |

The ‘Leave’ Camp Won. That Doesn’t Mean Brexit Will …

David Francis |

Fragile States Index 2016

FP Staff |

China’s Pivot to Putin’s Friends

Alexander Gabuev |

Toward a Post-Brexit Defense Strategy

Kori Schake |

Innovations: Why the Future of War Might Look Like Vegas

Eliza Strickland |

White House Issues Strict Rules for Arctic Drilling

David Francis |

The Coldest Case

David Kushner |

Here’s Why Erdogan Is Cozying Up to Putin

Keith Johnson |

Israel’s Reconciliation With Turkey Could Lead to New …

Keith Johnson |

China’s Pivot to Putin’s Friends

Alexander Gabuev |

The Era of Cheap Oil Is Coming to an End

Keith Johnson |

Trouble Is Brewing in Nigeria’s Oil Country

Chika Oduah |

Saudi Arabia’s First Step Is Admitting It Has an Oil …

Andrew Scott Cooper |

India, One of the World’s Biggest Polluters, Will Join …

Keith Johnson |

China’s Power Grab in the Heart of Europe

Keith Johnson |

Trump’s Huge Energy Speech Was Hugely Wrong

Keith Johnson |

It’s Time for Obama to Send Home This Mass-Murdering Cuban…

James Bamford |

China’s Much-Heralded NSC Has Disappeared

Joel Wuthnow |

America Already Has More Than Enough Nuclear Missiles

Adam Smith |

Can Paul Ryan Save the Republican Party from Donald Trump?

Kori Schake |

How Did the FBI Miss Omar Mateen?

David Gomez |

Donald Trump Should Reach Out to the National Security …

Raymond Tanter |

America’s Suicide Epidemic Is a National Security Crisis

Fredrik deBoer |

So You Wouldn’t Work For Donald Trump?

Peter Feaver |

Obama Says Climate Change Is a Security Risk. Why Are …

Keith Johnson |

Watch Thy Neighbor

James Bamford |

The Republican Case Against Donald Trump

Peter Feaver |

Of iPhones, Backdoors, and Totalitarians

Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr. |

The Case Against Peace

Stephen M. Walt |

Why the World Humanitarian Summit Meeting in Turkey Really …

Nancy Lindborg |

Dalai Lama: Those Who Cause Bloodshed Are Not “Genuine” …

Megan Alpert |

A History of Sustainable Violence

Aaron David Miller |

The Two-School Solution

Yardena Schwartz |

What Happens When You Replace a Just War With a Just Peace

Maria J. Stephan |

For Middle East Peace, Look to Israel's Arab Partners

John Hannah |

Don’t Blame Sykes-Picot for the Middle East’s Mess

Steven A. Cook |

NGOs Avert Russian-Inspired Restrictions in Central Asia’s…

Reid Standish |

Oil Politics: Iraqi Kurdish Official Calls for Country’s …

Paul McLeary |

Saudi Arabia Vows to Retake Sanaa if Peace Talks Fail

John Hudson |

In the Event of the Islamic State's Untimely Demise...

Brian Michael Jenkins |

Beijing Establishes a D.C. Think Tank, and No One Notices

Isaac Stone Fish |

China's Big Takeover Battle

Lorand C. Laskai |

A Grim Future for Chinese Web Freedom

David Bandurski |

Chinese Web Users Sneer at Reports of ‘Bregret’

David Wertime |

The Man Who Nailed Jello to the Wall

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian |

The Fight Inside China Over the South China Sea

Feng Zhang |

Watch: China Takes Teen-Friendly Tack in South China Sea …

David Wertime |

Beijing: Japanese Judge Means South China Sea Tribunal Is …

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian |

'Wukan,' Once a Byword for Chinese Democracy, Now Censored

Leah Liu |

Nationalist Chinese Netizens Are Already Turning on Disney …

Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian |

China's Students Are Sharing Their Secrets ... In English

Matthew DeButts |

Who Said It, Donald Trump or a Chinese Communist?

Leah Liu |

Innovations: Why the Future of War Might Look Like Vegas

Eliza Strickland |

The Coldest Case

David Kushner |

The Exchange: When Do African Problems Need African …

FP Staff |

The Unexplained Disappearance of Dahlia Yehia

Joshua Hammer |

FBI Recommends No Charges For Clinton in Email Case

Elias Groll |

Why the robots are rising

Thomas E. Ricks |

Republicans Try and Fail to Invoke Terror to Pass …

Elias Groll |

Ford’s ‘Rise of the Robots’ is not about the military…

Thomas E. Ricks |

CIA Chief: We Won't Torture, Even If Ordered To

Elias Groll |
The World in Photos This Week

The World in Photos This Week

FP Staff |
Reclaiming the Spoils of War

Reclaiming the Spoils of War

FP Staff |
The World in Photos This Week

The World in Photos This Week

FP Staff |
The World in Photos This Week

The World in Photos This Week

FP Staff |
The World in Photos This Week

The World in Photos This Week

FP Staff |
From Fibers to Fashion Week

From Fibers to Fashion Week

FP Staff |
The World in Photos this Week

The World in Photos this Week

FP Staff |
The World in Photos This Week

The World in Photos This Week

FP Staff |
By Land or By Sea

By Land or By Sea

FP Staff |

Mapping the Spread of the ISIS Plague

Dan De Luce |

Mapped: What Each EU Country Impacted by New Quota Plan …

Siobhán O'Grady |

Workers of the World, Divided!

Benjamin Soloway |

Europe's Migrant Crisis By the Numbers

Elaine Ayo |

Follow the Roads, Railways, and Pipelines on China's New …

Reid Standish |

Mapping Boko Haram's Growing Insurgency

Reid Standish |

Another Chinese Website Bites the Dust

Alexa Olesen |

There Are as Many Refugees in the World as Justin Bieber …

FP Staff |

Did the Arab Spring Really Spark a Wave of Global Protests?

Kalev Leetaru |

Mapped: Brexit's Aftermath

C.K. Hickey |

Mapped: The Islamic State Is Losing Its Territory -- and Fast

Henry Johnson |

Mapping the Spread of the ISIS Plague

Dan De Luce |

Mapped: The Threat of the Zika Virus

Megan Alpert |

Mapped: Corruption Across the World

Henry Johnson |

Mapped: The Refugee Crisis in the Aegean Sea

Siobhán O'Grady |

How Global Displacement Will Reach All-Time High, in Maps …

Siobhán O'Grady |

Mapping How China’s Land Grab Is Backfiring on Beijing

Dan De Luce |

Mapped: Where Airstrikes in Syria Are Targeting Medical …

Siobhán O'Grady |

David Bosco

Rosa Brooks

Thanassis Cambanis

Elizabeth Dickinson

Laurie Garrett

Kim Ghattas

Julia Ioffe

Leela Jacinto

Whitney Kassel

Jeffrey Lewis

Aaron David Miller

Suzanne Nossel

Thomas E. Ricks

David Rothkopf

Kori Schake

Emile Simpson

James Stavridis

Bruce Stokes

James Traub

Stephen M. Walt

Lauren Wolfe

Michela Wrong

Micah Zenko

Introducing the Universal, All-Purpose Task Force Title Generator

Introducing the Universal, All-Purpose Task Force Title …

Stephen M. Walt |
Gold Star Wives aren’t gold-diggers. This is how it works out these days, financially.

Gold Star Wives aren’t gold-diggers. This is how it works …

Thomas E. Ricks |
McMaster: U.S. war plans for Iraq and Afghanistan smacked of ‘narcissism’

McMaster: U.S. war plans for Iraq and Afghanistan smacked of…

Thomas E. Ricks |
First, They Came for the Experts

First, They Came for the Experts

James Traub |
A grunt’s thoughts on the loss of Kunduz: I used to tell my squad that it was worth it

A grunt’s thoughts on the loss of Kunduz: I used to tell …

Thomas E. Ricks |
How a reporter should embed with a unit

How a reporter should embed with a unit

Thomas E. Ricks |
How a reporter should embed with a unit

How a reporter should embed with a unit

Thomas E. Ricks |
The World’s Rising Powers Have Fallen

The World’s Rising Powers Have Fallen

Suzanne Nossel |
We romanticize military service — until we see some combat and bury some friends

We romanticize military service — until we see some combat…

Thomas E. Ricks |

McMaster: U.S. war plans for Iraq and Afghanistan smacked of…

Thomas E. Ricks |

Gold Star Wives aren’t gold-diggers. This is how it works …

Thomas E. Ricks |

A grunt’s thoughts on the loss of Kunduz: I used to tell …

Thomas E. Ricks |

How a reporter should embed with a unit

Thomas E. Ricks |

Tony Blair: Bounder or dirtbag? One of the slipperiest books…

Thomas E. Ricks |

We romanticize military service — until we see some combat…

Thomas E. Ricks |

When I hear PME types use the word ‘rigor,’ I gotta …

Thomas E. Ricks |

While we were passed out: Firings all around, an Elvis …

Thomas E. Ricks |

Best Defense goes into summer reruns

Thomas E. Ricks |

Brexit’s Blowback on the Liberal World Order

Daniel Twining |

Keep Up the Pressure on Iran

Adam Ereli |

Iran's Parchin Particles: Why Should Two Mites of Uranium …

William Tobey |

Iran and its Protégées

Raymond Tanter |

Brexit Is a Russian Victory

Mark R. Kennedy |

Shrinking States, Growing Statelessness

Jean M. Geran |

Obama’s Noble Lie

Peter Rough |

Toward a Post-Brexit Defense Strategy

Kori Schake |

Why the Brexit Isn’t a Boost for Trump

Will Inboden |

George B.N. Ayittey

Argument

With Negotiators Like These…

Peace talks won't solve the crisis in South Sudan. Africa-style justice will.

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How to Keep Those Coconuts Falling

Some lessons on keeping Libya’s revolutionary momentum going throughout the Arab world.

Lists

The Worst of the Worst: Revisited

Who will be the next coconut to fall?

Failed States

The Worst of the Worst

Bad dude dictators and general coconut heads.

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