An internet conspiracy theory was killing people even before the president posted about it. I found the man who started it. He’s nothing like you’d expect.

An internet conspiracy theory was killing people even before the president posted about it. I found the man who started it. He’s nothing like you’d expect.

The 30 biggest releases in foreign affairs, history, and political science.

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Julia Ioffe’s new feminist history of Russia offers important lessons for the West.

Plus, more international fiction releases.

How Peter Magyar went from a former Fidesz insider to Hungary’s most popular politician.

Megha Majumdar’s “A Guardian and a Thief” interrogates how the have-nots get by in a climate catastrophe.

Historical fiction set in ancient Britain and 20th-century Puerto Rico.

Historical fiction set in ancient Britain and 20th-century Puerto Rico.

Kwame Nkrumah’s life demonstrates that the end of colonial rule in Africa is central to modern history.

How the agency’s program to circulate banned books helped take down the Iron Curtain.

The dog days of summer, from an 18th-century English village to modern-day Tbilisi.

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What CIA insiders make of the MAGA moles and toadies now in charge of U.S. national security.

Trump’s attacks on American universities come as China seeks to dominate higher education.

Peculiar forms of criminality, as seen from front-line Ukraine and Lagos.

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief—summer vacation edition.

The women behind Italy’s underground press during World War II offer important lessons for democracies today.

A presidential speech in 1937 marked an unexpected turn in U.S. strategic thought.

In this magisterial account, journalist French (Born in Blackness) revisits the history of the Pan-Africanist movement through t...

I used to show people the old website at parties. It was that funny.

As of 2023, China continued to emit HFC-23 at high levels in violation of an international agreement.

The Sunbirds’ story began with tragedy but has evolved into one of resilience.

From the Gulf as a modern Wild West to sisterhood in Singapore.

Two head-spinning rides through a globalized world.

How the president’s crackdown on higher education fits into his broader political program.

From a killing in the West Bank to horror in a postapocalyptic convent.

From dystopian Korea to colonial Taiwan.

The war has exposed post-World War II illusions of a common humanity.

From a British techno-dystopia to Berlin’s underground.