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Vance Leaves Europe Gobsmacked
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance delivered a rebuke on immigration and alleged censorship to a shocked Munich Security Conference.
![Trump, left, stands next to Putin. Trump appears slightly hunched over with a grimacing expression. Putin smiles and holds papers in his hands.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/trump-putin-GettyImages-1000209212.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Jubilation in Moscow Over Trump’s Gifts to Putin
To the Kremlin and its supporters, fortune has finally turned Russia’s way.
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How Big Does Donald Trump Think Greenland Is?
Map projections may be key to understand a presidential obsession.
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And the Oscar for Darkest Documentary Goes to…
In a heavy year for the category, at least one nominee had our reviewer break down sobbing.
Asia & the Pacific
![Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to supporters as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the party’s win in the Delhi legislative assembly election in New Delhi on Feb. 8.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/modi-election-delhi-bjp-GettyImages-2197769445.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Victory in Delhi Gives BJP a Boost
China
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China Responds to Trump’s Tariffs With Caution
Middle East & Africa
![Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and U.S. President Donald Trump appear during an executive order signing in the Oval Office at the White House on Feb. 11](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/musk-trump-GettyImages-2198395852.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Trump vs. South Africa
Europe
![Protesters march to demand an end to Israeli military attacks on Palestinians in Gaza, in Berlin on Oct. 6, 2024.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Germany-Israel-Palestine-Gaza-protest-GettyImages-2176510740.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Germany’s Pro-Israel Policy Must End
Americas
![Colombian President Gustavo Petro attends a ceremony in Bogotá on July 9, 2024.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Gustavo-Petro-Colombia-president-GettyImages-2160758272.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Colombia’s Cabinet Implodes
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![An aerial view shows a road clogged to the horizon with people. At left is the ocean and at right a war-devastated landscape.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/gaza-trump-GettyImages-2195603487.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
What Trump’s Gaza Plan Means for the World
FP asked 10 writers to respond to the U.S. president’s shock announcement.
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A crowd of dozens of people march down a paved city street lined on either side by midrise buildings. Many of the people hold signs or wave Iranian flags, and six women leading the procession hold a large banner covered in the words "woman," "life," and "freedom" written in English, German, and Persian.
In the Magazine
![An illustration shows three tiers of classes, working class on the lowest with a bike messenger, a construction worker, a hotel worker, and a waiter; the second tier shows the professional-managerial class with a doctor, a graduate, and a man with a briefcase; the top layer shows two men golfing. Between them is a Donald Trump in a champagne coupe.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/trump-class-wars-alvaro-bernis-illustration.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
America Is Locked in a New Class War
Money and education no longer explain voting patterns.
![An illustrations shows the silhouette of Donald Trump with a face filled with pricetags.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/1-trump-transactional-foreign-policy-brian-stauffer-illustration-hp.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Trump Is Ushering In a More Transactional World
Countries and companies with clout might thrive. The rest, not so much.
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FP Live at the Munich Security Conference: Finland’s President
Finnish President Alexander Stubb will sit down with FP's Ravi Agrawal to discuss relations with the Trump White House and the fate of Ukraine.
![A photo collage illustration shows characters from the movies nomicated for best foreign film atop a red carpet with golden film strips intermingled.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/oscars-foreign-films-foreign-policy-Klawe-Rzeczy-illustration-hp.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Best International Films at the Oscars
Find out why the frontrunner is so controversial—and why everything about Latvia’s entry is a miracle.
Subscribers’ Picks
![Donald Trump holds a media conference announcing the establishment of Trump University May 23, 2005 in New York City. Trump University will consist of on-line courses, CD-Roms and other learning programs for business professionals.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/GettyImages-52969254-1.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
What IR Theory Predicts About Trump 2.0
An academic assessment of the U.S. president’s foreign-policy revolution.
![Reporters raise their hands in the foreground as Donald Trump gestures with his arms wide behind a podium. On the left, Benjamin Netanyahu looks sideways at Trump from behind a podium.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Trump-gaza-takeover-israel-GettyImages-2197678706.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Sheer Lunacy of Trump’s Gaza Takeover Plan
Seizing the Palestinian territory would involve U.S. war crimes and utter regional chaos.
![Volunteers at a camp for internally displaced people unload sacks of wheat flour that were part of an aid delivery from USAID in Bahir Dar, Ethiopia.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/usaid-GettyImages-1359725650.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Chaos at USAID, Explained
Experts warn that dissolving the agency would be a gift to U.S. adversaries.
![An illustration shows a scribbled tangled line connecting the flags of the U.S. and China on either side. Behind the line is the out-of-focus face of Joe Biden.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/1-China-Biden-foreign-policy-nicolas-ortega-illustration-3-2.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Did Biden Get China Right?
The administration aimed to outcompete China. Four years later, here’s how it measured up.
Black History Month
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Did America’s Racial Awakening Reach IR Professors?
Nearly half of international relations scholars spent more time in class on race and racial justice—but with key demographic differences.
![Tourists walk next to the Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Athens.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/greece-athens-parthenon-GettyImages-1558046851.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Clash Over Civilizations
A recent book reveals the premodern world as one of mobility and interaction—but it was not without parochialism.
In Case You Missed It
A selection of paywall-free articles
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America’s Zero-Sum Economics Doesn’t Add Up
Industrial policy and subsidies are nothing new and can be useful. But shutting off from the world will have consequences.
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Visual Stories
![A person wearing a red shawl and an ornate skirt with beads and ornamentation holds a golden object as she poses for a photo in front of Tibetan prayer wheels. A photographer points a camera toward her.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1-tibet-tourism-china-judith-hertog-02-Lhasa-2019.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
How Tourism Trapped Tibet
The region is becoming a theme park for the Chinese nation.
![A boy stands in front of the shell of a bombed-out car on a packed-dirt street. A battered bicycle leans against to the car. Behind him are the war-torn shells of multistory buildings.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/1-syria-after-assad-emre-caykalk-photo-ECSY-250103-Syria-after-Assad-34102.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Rebuilding Old Damascus After Assad
Syrians embrace a fresh start, but uncertainty around the future—and the past—lingers.