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3 weeks ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Andrew O’Donohue |Julian Zelizer |David Rosenberg
According to many legal experts, U.S. President Donald Trump is challenging judicial constraints on executive power, even at the risk of a constitutional crisis. This may be new in the United States, but it follows a pattern seen in countries such as Brazil, India, Israel, Hungary, and Turkey. Why are so many democratically elected leaders defying the courts? How do the judiciary and civil society in other countries respond? And what lessons can the United States draw from those clashes?
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1 month ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Adam Tooze |Elisabeth Braw |Cameron Abadi
The United States’ richest billionaires got prime seating at President Donald Trump’s inauguration. Elon Musk attended the administration’s first cabinet meeting. But just how much influence do the wealthy have on U.S. politics? For several years now, key metrics on social mobility and corruption have shown that the United States has been becoming less equal and more corrupt. According to Sen.
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1 month ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Michael Hirsh
One of the Trump administration’s most dramatic moves has been a break from its ironclad relationship with Europe. Now, European leaders are rapidly moving to transform their defense capacity, holding emergency meetings and issuing stern statements. But beyond the rousing rhetoric from its leaders, how quickly can the continent actually stand up for itself? What tough changes need to be made and at what cost?
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1 month ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Ravi Agrawal |Daniel Kurtzer |Aaron Miller
Donald Trump’s second term as president has begun at a furious pace. From a flurry of executive orders to dramatic changes on key issues such as alliances and trade, it’s fair to say the new White House is upending a decades-old consensus on Washington’s role in the world. At the 50-day mark, are we seeing clear contours of a Trump foreign-policy doctrine? What is the administration’s end goal?
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1 month ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Bob Davis |James Crabtree
Donald Trump has engineered stark changes in U.S. foreign policy, particularly on relations with Europe and on the issues of trade and immigration. But what about China? How does the new president’s China policy differ from that of the Biden administration’s? Does Washington’s shifting relationship with Brussels create an opening for Beijing? Rush Doshi helped shape and execute the Biden administration’s China policy.
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2 months ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Ravi Agrawal |Pankaj Mishra |Matthew M Kavanagh
Are human rights at a modern low point? One can certainly make the case they are, with conflict ongoing on multiple continents, refugee crises, and the rise of authoritarian leaders. The recent kneecapping of the U.S. Agency for International Development may exacerbate these problems: According to Human Rights Watch, U.S. President Donald Trump “poses a grave threat to human rights” globally.
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2 months ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Ravi Agrawal |Emma Ashford |Jennifer Kavanagh
U.S. President Donald Trump has begun his second term at breakneck speed. From his use of tariffs as a bullying tactic, to forced deportations, to threatening to invade Greenland and the Panama Canal, the world is rapidly adjusting to the stark reality of an America First foreign policy. How are Trump’s moves playing out globally?
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |David Rosenberg |Howard French
How will the world look back at Israel’s response to the Oct. 7, 2023 attack? What does the global polarization over the war and its causes say about our political discourse? Indian public intellectual Pankaj Mishra takes on these questions in a new book, The World After Gaza. In it, he argues that the cleavage in public opinion reflects the competing narratives that shaped our modern world: decolonization in the global south and the post-Holocaust liberal order in the global north.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Edward Alden |Howard French |Christina Lu
Donald Trump says he believes he won the 2024 U.S. presidential election because of his stance on immigration. The president-elect has called undocumented workers “savage gangs” who should be subject to “the largest deportation operation in American history.” Can Trump really do that? What will it cost the U.S. economy? What checks and balances might stand in his way? Columnist Edward Alden will join FP Live to explain what we know of Trump’s plans so far and how likely he is to enact them.
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Dec 26, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne
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