Foreign Policy

The country’s wealth is stolen or wasted as murder skyrockets.

The image of starving Africans may score propaganda points for the West, but Russia’s suspension of the deal arguably does more harm to wealthier countries.

Spiraling violence in the northeastern state takes cues from the ruling party’s majoritarianism.

A forever war in Ukraine comes with almost limitless possibilities to stifle dissent.

Silicon Valley’s congressman on how to reset the U.S.-China relationship.

Changes in technology and antitrust laws are driving the strike by writers and actors.

Decoupling is seen as everything from a moral necessity to a U.S. imposition.

An entrenched culture of misogyny is keeping the country’s female lawyers away from the corridors of power.

Measures intended to punish autocrats are eroding the very Western order they were meant to preserve.

The trans-Atlantic alliance has made China a security priority.

It’s not just in NATO. It’s one of the alliance’s most confrontational members.

Karl Schlögel recreates a lost world of long queues and shared spaces.

Is economic war between the world’s two biggest economies inevitable?

A new history of Russia’s ruble highlights the reciprocal relationship between autocracy and monetary policy.

“Follow the Money” traces an economy in crisis.

The U.S. military’s admiration of a proto-fascist city-state is based on bad history.

India’s government is only now breaking its monthslong silence over the Manipur mob assault.

Boeing aircraft are still plying tourist routes from Moscow to Turkey, Egypt, and Thailand, and they’re refueling—and possibly getting repairs—en route.

Test yourself on the week of July 15: Panama’s former president is sentenced, tensions escalate in the Korean Peninsula, and Yevgeny Prigozhin rallies his troops.

Moscow used to bang shoes to get attention. Now it blows up grain warehouses.