1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (14+ words) Foreign Policy in Focus...

1+ day, 10+ hour ago   (311+ words) For years, Washington treated economic sanctions as the Goldilocks instrument of foreign policy: tougher than diplomacy, safer than war, and cheap enough to impose without asking much of the American public. That formula is beginning to break down. Sanctions can…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (320+ words) On Tuesday, as American aircraft struck Iran for a tenth consecutive night, Iran’s interior minister Eskandar Momeni flew to Islamabad. He was carrying a direct message from Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. When he arrived, he sat down with Pakistan’s army…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago   (188+ words) Belongings that anti-immigrant demonstrators say belong to foreign nationals burn on a street during an anti-immigrant demonstration in Johannesburg, South Africa on July 4, 2026 (Shutterstock) Last month, thousands of migrants across South Africa packed their belongings and left their homes. Parents…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (504+ words) The Trump administration is doing everything it can to get rid of what it considers to be “undesirable” people. The administration has removed temporary protected status (TPS) for more than a million people from over a dozen countries. It is…...

3+ day, 14+ hour ago   (321+ words) The roots of the current conflict go back to 1948, when an estimated 700,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes in what Palestinians call the Nakba, or “catastrophe.” More than 400 villages were depopulated during the war surrounding Israel’s founding. Decades of occupation…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (262+ words) When combined with Llave MX’s national biometric registry and the Central Intelligence Platform, this network could support automated facial recognition and real-time tracking. Anthropologist Esteban Salmón’s research points to practical downsides in Mexico City, including false positives, issues with evidence…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (493+ words) The release of China’s first-half economic data for 2026 has triggered familiar skepticism across Western media. As the second-quarter GDP growth moderated to 4.3 percent—bringing the first-half expansion to 4.7 percent—mainstream headlines were quick to double down on anxieties over domestic…...

5+ day, 14+ hour ago   (866+ words) Hormuz Without a Peace Foreign Policy in Focus Hormuz Without a Peace The June ceasefire did not produce a postwar order in the Strait of Hormuz. It produced a pause. And now that pause has given way to renewed U.S. strikes,…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (714+ words) The Foreign Policy Lindsey Graham Carried Was Buried First Foreign Policy in Focus The Foreign Policy Lindsey Graham Carried Was Buried First Lindsey Graham’s sister took his Senate seat at 2:30 on Tuesday afternoon, and the shortest reading of American foreign…...