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The ‘But China!’ Dilemma Driving the A.I. RaceSeptember 15, 2026
Francis Fukuyama on Trump, China and the Legacy of 9/11September 11, 2026
This Is Why People Hate the GovernmentAugust 25, 2026
The China Shock 2.0August 21, 2026
The China Shock 2.0August 21, 2026
The A.I.s Are Already Out of ControlAugust 18, 2026
What if America Followed the Rules?August 14, 2026
How Trump Has Changed, With Maggie HabermanJuly 31, 2026
What Xi Jinping WantsJuly 14, 2026
What’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump?June 9, 2026
What’s the Left’s Vision for Foreign Policy After Trump?June 9, 2026
Ian Bremmer on the Risks America Poses to the WorldJune 2, 2026
Yuval Noah Harari on the Mistake Strongmen Keep MakingMay 26, 2026
Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’April 14, 2026
Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s WarApril 10, 2026
Fareed Zakaria on the Moral Cost of Trump’s WarApril 10, 2026
Is Iran Winning?April 3, 2026
Is Iran Winning?April 3, 2026
Will Iran Break Trumpism?March 27, 2026
Will Iran Break Trumpism?March 27, 2026
How Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get?March 24, 2026
How Bad Could the Iran Oil Crisis Get?March 24, 2026
We’re All Living in the ‘Mirror World’ NowMarch 20, 2026
What Trump Didn’t Know About IranMarch 14, 2026
What Trump Didn’t Know About IranMarch 14, 2026
I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This WarMarch 10, 2026
I Asked a Former Trump Official to Justify This WarMarch 10, 2026
Why the Pentagon Wants to Destroy AnthropicMarch 6, 2026
The Great Lie of WarMarch 3, 2026
The Great Lie of WarMarch 3, 2026
How the World Sees America, With Adam ToozeJanuary 30, 2026
The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in YearsJanuary 27, 2026
The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in YearsJanuary 27, 2026
Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’January 10, 2026
Venezuela, Renee Good and Trump’s ‘Assault on Hope’January 10, 2026
What Trump Wants in VenezuelaJanuary 6, 2026
What Trump Wants in VenezuelaJanuary 6, 2026
The Israeli Right’s Plan to Carve Up GazaOctober 27, 2025
Can the Israel-Hamas Deal Hold?October 17, 2025
Can the Israel-Hamas Deal Hold?October 17, 2025
How Afraid of the A.I. Apocalypse Should We Be?October 15, 2025
When Is It Genocide?August 13, 2025
When Is It Genocide?August 13, 2025
A New Middle East?June 25, 2025
A New Middle East?June 25, 2025
Ehud Olmert on Israel’s Catastrophic War in GazaJune 11, 2025
Ehud Olmert on Israel’s Catastrophic War in GazaJune 11, 2025
The Emergent Trump DoctrineJune 3, 2025
The Growing Scandal of $TrumpMay 28, 2025
The Growing Scandal of $TrumpMay 28, 2025
Trump vs. the DollarMay 2, 2025
The Very American Roots of TrumpismApril 23, 2025
Tom Friedman Thinks We’re Getting China Dangerously WrongApril 15, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes NextApril 11, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs, Market Panic and What Comes NextApril 11, 2025
Paul Krugman on the ‘Biggest Trade Shock in History’April 5, 2025
What Is DOGE’s Real Goal?March 25, 2025
Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?March 14, 2025
The Government Knows AGI is ComingMarch 4, 2025
The Dark Heart of Trump’s Foreign PolicyMarch 1, 2025
The Dark Heart of Trump’s Foreign PolicyMarch 1, 2025
Democrats Are Losing the War for Attention. Badly.January 17, 2025
Biden Promised to ‘Turn the Page’ on Trump. What Went Wrong?January 14, 2025
Trump 2.0 and the Return of ‘Court Politics’January 10, 2025
Trump Kicks Down the GuardrailsNovember 19, 2024
How Biden's Middle East Policy Fell ApartOctober 8, 2024
How Biden's Middle East Policy Fell ApartOctober 8, 2024
Israel vs. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran — and ItselfSeptember 20, 2024
Israel vs. Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran — and ItselfSeptember 20, 2024
Israelis Are Not Watching the Same War You AreJune 14, 2024
Israelis Are Not Watching the Same War You AreJune 14, 2024
The Disastrous Relationship Between Israel, Palestinians and the U.N.May 17, 2024
The Disastrous Relationship Between Israel, Palestinians and the U.N.May 17, 2024
Watching the Protests From IsraelMay 7, 2024
What if Dario Amodei Is Right About A.I.?April 12, 2024
The Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Have Changed. America's Policy Hasn't.March 1, 2024
The Wars in Ukraine and Gaza Have Changed. America's Policy Hasn't.March 1, 2024
Building the Palestinian State With Salam FayyadFebruary 9, 2024
'I Have No Idea How This Ends. I've Never Seen It So Broken.'January 19, 2024
India Is Transforming. But Into What?December 12, 2023
India Is Transforming. But Into What?December 12, 2023
‘This Is How Hamas Is Seeing This’December 5, 2023
‘This Is How Hamas Is Seeing This’December 5, 2023
The Best Primer I’ve Heard on Israeli-Palestinian Peace EffortsNovember 21, 2023
What Israelis Fear the World Does Not UnderstandNovember 10, 2023
What Israelis Fear the World Does Not UnderstandNovember 10, 2023
Why Palestinians Feel They’ve Been ‘Duped’November 7, 2023
If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?October 31, 2023
If Not This, Then What Should Israel Do?October 31, 2023
The Jewish Left Is Trying to Hold Two Thoughts at OnceOctober 24, 2023
The Jewish Left Is Trying to Hold Two Thoughts at OnceOctober 24, 2023
Your Guide to the New RightOctober 3, 2023
It’s Time to Talk About ‘Pandemic Revisionism’August 29, 2023
When Great Power Conflict and Climate Action CollideAugust 22, 2023
When Great Power Conflict and Climate Action CollideAugust 22, 2023
A Conservative on How His Party Has Changed Since 2016August 8, 2023
A Conservative on How His Party Has Changed Since 2016August 8, 2023
How Martin Wolf Understands This Global Economic MomentAugust 1, 2023
What’s Really Going On in Russia?June 30, 2023
What the Heck Is Going on With These U.F.O. Stories?June 20, 2023
Fareed Zakaria on Where Russia’s War in Ukraine Stands — and Much MoreJune 2, 2023
Fareed Zakaria on Where Russia’s War in Ukraine Stands — and Much MoreJune 2, 2023
The Most Amazing — and Dangerous — Technology in the WorldApril 4, 2023
A.I. Is About to Get Much Weirder. Here’s What to Watch For.March 21, 2023
Why Silicon Valley Bank Collapsed — And What Comes NextMarch 16, 2023
How China Went From Economic Superstar to Faltering GiantMarch 14, 2023
The Inflation Story Has Changed Significantly. Paul Krugman Breaks It Down.February 17, 2023
Is This How a Cold War With China Begins?January 27, 2023
Is This How a Cold War With China Begins?January 27, 2023
There’s Been a Revolution in How China Is GovernedJanuary 24, 2023
A Conservative's Take on the Chaotic State of the Republican PartyDecember 2, 2022
A Powerful Theory of Why the Far Right Is Thriving Across the GlobeNovember 1, 2022
How the Fed Is 'Shaking the Entire System'October 7, 2022
We Know Shockingly Little About What Makes Humanity ProsperSeptember 27, 2022
Why Russia Is Losing the War in UkraineSeptember 23, 2022
Why Russia Is Losing the War in UkraineSeptember 23, 2022
Anne Applebaum on What Liberals Misunderstand About AuthoritarianismMay 17, 2022
What Does the 'Post-Liberal Right' Actually Want?May 13, 2022
Putin May Not Like How He's Changed EuropeApril 26, 2022
Can Democrats Turn Their 2022 Around?April 19, 2022
A Ukrainian Philosopher on What Putin Never Understood About UkraineApril 12, 2022
Fiona Hill on Whether Ukraine Can Win — and What Happens if Russia LosesApril 8, 2022
Fiona Hill on Whether Ukraine Can Win — and What Happens if Russia LosesApril 8, 2022
Sanctioning Russia Is a Form of War. We Need to Treat It Like One.April 1, 2022
Sanctioning Russia Is a Form of War. We Need to Treat It Like One.April 1, 2022
Margaret Atwood on 'The Handmaid's Tale,' Totalitarianism and U.F.O.sMarch 25, 2022
How Energy Markets Are Shaping Putin's Invasion — and the WorldMarch 22, 2022
A Realist Take on How the Russia-Ukraine War Could EndMarch 18, 2022
A Realist Take on How the Russia-Ukraine War Could EndMarch 18, 2022
Timothy Snyder on the Myths That Blinded the West to Putin's PlansMarch 15, 2022
Putin Is 'Profoundly Anti-Modern.' Masha Gessen Explains What That Means for the WorldMarch 11, 2022
Putin Is 'Profoundly Anti-Modern.' Masha Gessen Explains What That Means for the WorldMarch 11, 2022
Fiona Hill on the War Putin Is Really FightingMarch 8, 2022
Fiona Hill on the War Putin Is Really FightingMarch 8, 2022
Fareed Zakaria Has a Better Way to Handle Russia — and ChinaMarch 4, 2022
Fareed Zakaria Has a Better Way to Handle Russia — and ChinaMarch 4, 2022
Can the West Stop Russia by Strangling Its Economy?March 1, 2022
The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to HaveAugust 27, 2021
The Foreign Policy Conversation Washington Doesn’t Want to HaveAugust 27, 2021
What Trump Understood About the War on Terror That Others MissedAugust 10, 2021
What Trump Understood About the War on Terror That Others MissedAugust 10, 2021
Ross Douthat Has Been ‘Radicalized a Little Bit, Too’July 27, 2021
The Spectacle of the G.O.P.’s Shrinking TentMay 18, 2021
How America’s Covid-19 Nightmare EndsMarch 12, 2021
An Appalled Republican Considers the Future of the G.O.P.February 5, 2021

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