The Next Backlash Is Going to Be Against Technology

Harvard economist Dani Rodrik on how to make globalization fair and sustainable. | Continue reading


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Will we have a civil war? Top experts estimate 60% chance (2017)

For most of my career I have been traveling the world observing other countries in various states of dysfunction and answering this same question. | Continue reading


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Super-Patriotic Anime Youth Wars

Can the mighty Communist Party win the hearts of China’s youth, or will the 2D world lure them into Japan's clutches? | Continue reading


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Russia Is Tricking GPS to Protect Putin

The Kremlin’s manipulation of global navigation systems is more extensive than previously understood. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

South Korea Went Crazy over a Handful of Refugees (2018)

Feminists, the young, and Islamophobes have allied against desperate Yemenis. | Continue reading


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Hitler Loved Speed Limits

Germany’s unregulated highways might be the most irrational aspect of its modern identity—but you can’t blame it on the Führer. | Continue reading


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Y N Harari: Who Will Win the Race for AI?

China and the United States are leading the pack—and the laggards face grave dangers. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

You Can Hack This Headline for $200

Cybercriminals claim to be selling the ability to manipulate media outlets’ articles. | Continue reading


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The end of economics?

Human beings are rarely rational—so it’s time we all stopped pretending they are. | Continue reading


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The Internet Is Going to End Up Like Greece

When the big players get away with open fraud, trust disintegrates. | Continue reading


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Chinese Communist Party Always Needs an Enemy

Xinjiang's detainees are the latest victims of a deep insecurity. | Continue reading


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Surveillance Is a Tech Problem, but It Requires a Policy Solution

Apple’s former security chief explains why he took a job with the ACLU. | Continue reading


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Can State’s New Cyber Bureau Hack It?

The U.S. State Department is working to stand up a new cybersecurity bureau, but it's hobbled by debates with lawmakers on its purpose and mandate. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

There's Officially Nobody in Charge of Britain

The United Kingdom is facing a generational crisis and adults are nowhere to be found in Parliament. | Continue reading


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The Littlest Boy: the U.S. Army's backpack nuke

Twenty years after Hiroshima, elite American troops trained to stop a Soviet invasion -- with nuclear weapons strapped to their backs. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The Rise and Fall of China’s Cycling Empires

China’s bike-sharing firms were supposed to be the next big thing. What happened? | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

Can Silicon Valley Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Pentagon?

Palmer Luckey, the 26-year-old founder of Oculus VR, is leading the charge to get tech companies and the Defense Department on the same page. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

Rising Tides Will Sink Global Order

Global warming will produce national extinctions and international insurgencies—and change everything you think you know about foreign policy. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The Welfare State Is Committing Suicide by Artificial Intelligence

Denmark is using algorithms to deliver benefits to citizens—and undermining its own democracy in the process. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The War-Torn Web

The new rules of digital warfare are coming into shape. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The GPS Wars Are Here

Location-based services are universal, critical, and horribly vulnerable. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

Senate Bill Targets Chinese Economic Espionage

New measure would give U.S. prosecutors power to indict hackers working abroad. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

How American Companies Enable NSA Surveillance

Yahoo built custom code for the NSA to scan user emails. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

A Preview of Your Chinese Future

China’s vision of world order is a more radical departure—and more realistic alternative—than the West understands. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

One Belt, One Road, One Big Mistake

China’s signature foreign-policy project is a failure that the U.S. shouldn’t copy. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

How some countries use Interpol to go after dissidents and debtors

How some countries use Interpol to go after dissidents and debtors. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The Nobel Prize for Climate Catastrophe

The economist William Nordhaus will receive his profession’s highest honor for research on global warming that’s been hugely influential—and entirely misguided. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

China’s Most Popular App Is Full of Hate

WeChat groups have become a major vector for anti-Muslim conspiracy theories. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The App Destroying Iran’s Currency – Foreign Policy

Iranians are using the messaging app Telegram to spread fake news about the rial—and make a profit for themselves. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The Economic Crisis is over. Populism is forever

From the United States to Germany, the West is booming—but the public hasn’t regained an appetite for liberalism. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

Why the Pentagon and Silicon Valley Need to Get on the Same Page

An interview with the new head of the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

Australia’s Draconian Refugee Policy Comes Home to Roost

The government has gone to great lengths to keep asylum-seekers from its shores. Now it might have to accept some of them after all. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real

Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

China’s Orwellian Social Credit Score Isn’t Real

Blacklists and monitoring systems are nowhere close to Black Mirror fantasies. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

In Cyberwar, There Are Some (Unspoken) Rules

A recent article argues that the lack of legal norms invites cyberconflict. But governments know the price of overreach and are refraining from unleashing their… | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

Why American Oil Hasn’t Been a Total Game-Changer

The U.S. is now the world’s top producer, but Saudi Arabia still holds the key to crude prices. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

U.S. schools should leave partnerships that persecute Chinese students

American schools should pull out of partnerships with schools that persecute students. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

Battling the Bots

Analysts are increasingly using artificial intelligence to track Russian disinformation campaigns. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

China’s Pop Idols Are Too Soft for the Communist Party

Stars like Kris Wu are huge with fans, but sit uncomfortably with macho ambitions. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

In Chinese Spy Ops, Something Old, Something New

Indictments reveal how Beijing mixes traditional spycraft with cyberespionage to steal U.S. technology. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

African Governments Are Paying for the World Bank's Mauritian Miracle

Ghost offices on the small island provide legal but questionable means of siphoning tax dollars away from poor countries and into the pockets of the… | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

China’s Dangerous Dollar Addiction

China pays for raw materials in greenbacks, but Trump’s trade war could soon dwindle its dollar reserves. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The Hope at the Heart of the Apocalyptic Climate Change Report

Along with their latest dire predictions, the world’s leading climate scientists offered a new path forward—but will anyone take it? | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

India’s Sleeping Tech Giants Are About to Awaken

A weak rupee could be just the push the Big Five need. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

If the U.S. Doesn’t Control Corporate Power, China Will

Laissez-faire economics has left firms bending the knee to Beijing. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The Global Financial System Is Dying in a London Courthouse

A legal battle between Russia and Ukraine is an unprecedented instance of war by other means—and an example that others will soon follow. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

The World’s First Immigration Economy

Australia’s economy is addicted to immigration, requiring ever-increasing infusions of new people to stave off an inevitable collapse. | Continue reading


@foreignpolicy.com | 5 years ago

Pentagon Accuses China of Dumping Products to Undermine U.S. Security

Study calls out Beijing for using underhanded trade practices that hurt the U.S. defense industry. | Continue reading


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