Justin Vogt
@jvogt.bsky.social
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Executive Editor at Foreign Affairs (
@ForeignAffairs.com
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So "Books" search on Google is just...gone?
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Good news alert! "Exposure to leadâa dangerous heavy metalâhas fallen by a factor of more than 100 since the 1960s." Beginning of the trend coincides with the establishment of the EPA. (h/t
@semafor.com
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A century of hair clippings show lead exposure rates have plummeted
Thereâs no safe level of exposure to leadâbut a small, strange study shows weâve made incredible progress in recent decades
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-century-of-hair-clippings-show-lead-exposure-rates-have-plummeted/?utm_source=semafor
7 days ago
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"The Predatory Hegemon:" Stephen Walt on Trump and American power.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Predatory Hegemon
Ever since Donald Trump first became U.S. president, in 2017, commentators have searched for an adequate label to describe his approach to U.S. foreign relations. Writing in these pages, the political...
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/predatory-hegemon-walt
7 days ago
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Good video, and good that he wants to raise taxes on the ultrarich to raise more revenue. But has Mamdani discussed specific ideas for fostering widespread economic growth in the city's private sector, besides cutting regulations to encourage building? Have I missed that?
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11 days ago
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In my view, this is the best take on Carney's speech: Matias Spektor on why the world will come to miss Western hypocrisy. "A world in which powerful states no longer feel compelled to justify themselves morally is not more honestâit is more dangerous."
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The World Will Come to Miss Western Hypocrisy
An overtly transactional order spells trouble for everyone.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/world-will-come-miss-western-hypocrisy
12 days ago
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Aside from the shooting itself, the most upsetting thing in the Pretti video is the way that the ICE officer is trying to pull Pretti away from the woman whom the officer has just shoved and pepper-sprayed. âStop interfering with my infliction of pain.â
16 days ago
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This, to me, is one of the most damning bits in the NYT oral history of Trump's assault on the FBI. Attributed to a "Midwest case agent."
19 days ago
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Daniel Drezner
21 days ago
One year in, it's Hobbes all the way down. Me &
@profsaunders.bsky.social
in
@foreignaffairs.com
.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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Trumpâs Year of Anarchy
The unconstrained presidency and the end of American primacy.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trumps-year-anarchy
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robert p. baird
about 1 month ago
This is true, but it also speaks to a truly difficult dynamic: in many areas (not all!) genAI can produce a result that is not entirely incompetent/unuseful. As the responses in the screenshot suggest, if youâre not an expert in a field, a 40-60% result might seem good, or at least good enoughâŚ
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Michael Brenes
about 1 month ago
The postwar ârules-based orderâ is dead. A transactional world has taken its place, one where values, multilateralism, and liberalism have less influence, a world more suited for the 19th century instead of a multipolar order. My latest for
@foreignaffairs.com
.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Transactional Trap
How foreign policy dealmaking can sow violence.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/transactional-trap
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Andy Cush
about 1 month ago
something I've wanted to do for a while: technical writing about songs (naming chords, etc) that is legible to non-technical readers, put together with more broadly interpretive criticism in hopes of getting to a deeper understanding of what the music is doing
www.hearingthings.co/the-psycholo...
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The Psychological Horror of Diana Ross' "Upside Down"
A close look at the mysterious underpinnings of a disco classic.
https://www.hearingthings.co/the-psychological-horror-of-diana-ross-upside-down/
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Interesting roundup of changes in media this year by
@kang.bsky.social
. I hadn't seen this revealing Pew report. Link to Kang's piece:
www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
about 2 months ago
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A Steve Kotkin banger leads the new issue of FA: the Stalin biographer on "the five dimensions of authoritarianism" and how they create vulnerabilities. Maybe the most important one: for autocrats, "their loyalists are their true enemies within."
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The Weakness of the Strongmen
Not long ago in the sweep of history, countries that had once been buried behind the Iron Curtain, and even some Soviet republics, were transformed into members of the solidly democratic club. Some of...
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/weakness-strongmen-stephen-kotkin
about 2 months ago
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Foreign Affairs
2 months ago
On the latest episode of âThe Foreign Affairs Interview,â
@kschake.bsky.social
argues that the Trump administrationâs approach to foreign policy is based on a fundamental misunderstanding of American power. Start listening here:
https://fam.ag/494W62u
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Kori Schake
2 months ago
Iâm so grateful to
@jvogt.bsky.social
and
@foreignaffairs.com
for the opportunity of this conversation on the new national security strategy:
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The Fear and Weakness at the Heart of Trumpâs Strategy
A Conversation With Kori Schake
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/podcasts/fear-and-weakness-heart-trumps-strategy
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Things would be better if more politicians were inspired by Fred Rogers.
2 months ago
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Fascinating stories of Chinese workers who migrated from rural areas to Guangdong in 2006-15: skillfully collected by the poet Zheng Xiaoqiong, translated by Eleanor Goodman, insightfully introduced by
@kaiserkuo.bsky.social
âand, thankfully, published by
@equatormag.bsky.social
.
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The Makers of Modern China ⢠EQUATOR
For many years, Zheng Xiaoqiong has collected the stories of the workers whose migration to Guangdong powered Chinaâs manufacturing revolution
https://www.equator.org/articles/the-makers-of-modern-china
2 months ago
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Andrew Miller was a senior official in the Biden administration, working on Israel-Palestine. Today, FA publishes his call for a dramatic reshaping of U.S.-Israeli relations: ending the "exceptional" relationship and replacing it with a "normal" one.
www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/end-i...
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The End of the Israel Exception
A new paradigm for American policy.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/end-israel-exception-andrew-miller
2 months ago
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Read
@danblock.bsky.social
on what Western media outlets can learn from The Caravan, an Indian magazine, about what to do when the state comes after the free press.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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News Organizations Are Bowing to Trump. This Small Magazine Knows How to Resist.
U.S. media outlets could learn some lessons from The Caravan.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/12/01/lessons-on-surviving-autocracy-from-one-small-indian-magazine-00667380
2 months ago
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I love this Patrick Leger illustration for this year's edition of FA's annual "Best of Books" list.
2 months ago
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David Gura
3 months ago
An update on the âAmerican dream,â from NPRâs Scott Horsley:
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Noriega got Rickrolled
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...
3 months ago
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Surprising that none of these folks picked the song "Harvest," which would be my answer. Some other songs from the record with that title appear, as does "Harvest Moon." But no "Harvest."
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80 Artists Pick Their Favorite Neil Young Song
Happy 80th birthday, Neil Young!
https://stereogum.com/2476602/80-artists-pick-their-favorite-neil-young-song/lists
3 months ago
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Has anyone ever made a strong case, grounded in data and empirical evidence, that Bill de Blasio's *pre-Covid* record as mayor was bad? Curious to know what metrics one would use to make that case.
4 months ago
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Max Boot
4 months ago
Presidents have the right to fire general officers and have done so in the past. But there is no precedent for the rapid dismissal of so many senior officers without any real explanation, evidence of failings, or misconduct. This looks like an attempt to install compliant leaders.
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The Dilemma of Duty Under Trump
What his assault on the U.S. military means for America.
https://bit.ly/47aHw7J
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I had a good convo about the prospects for peace in Gaza with Khaled Elgindy, Shira Efron, and Dan Shapiro. Each one makes a slightly different case for hope in the short term, and a slightly different case for doubt in the long term.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
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Will the War in Gaza Really End?
Podcast Episode ¡ The Foreign Affairs Interview ¡ 10/15/2025 ¡ 58m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-the-war-in-gaza-really-end/id1623855270?i=1000732031954
4 months ago
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My 7-year-old is reading "Charlotte's Web." My 13-year-old is reading "Animal Farm." In conclusion, animal husbandry is a land of contrasts.
4 months ago
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Has anyone from OpenAI explained why a tool like Sora 2 should exist? What, in the developersâ view, are the benefits that outweigh the obvious costs?
4 months ago
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A sweet appreciation of Rachel's, pegged to Touch and Go Records reissuing the group's albums, including "Music for Egon Schiele," a work I have cherished for 30 years.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...
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âPeople seemed deeply insultedâ: how cult 90s band Rachelâs took chamber music out of the classical world
The graceful ensemble prefigured the neo-classical phenomenon and found surprising success in the post-Nirvana alt-rock boom. After the deaths of two members, reissuing their debut has proven bittersw...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/sep/29/how-cult-90s-band-rachels-took-chamber-music-out-of-the-classical-world?fbclid=IwY2xjawNLbJBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHlzsSjifczvjS5BC1eOwOR__tMK4Y79vbAOfMFgy2XdlRm5knAp-VUTpFZOI_aem_6_-G9R1Kwue3C3pD5RYcvQ
4 months ago
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Love this,
@davecolon.bsky.social
: like an exorcism to expel the spirit of John Rocker.
bsky.app/profile/dave...
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5 months ago
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yarvin did the ISIS dril meme
5 months ago
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The Animal Collective Effect
5 months ago
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Seems like the anti-Mamdani forces have been focused on trying to push out the wrong candidate.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...
5 months ago
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Kori Schake
6 months ago
Itâs the best detailed description of the benefits to the U.S. of the international order the Trump administration is destroying.
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David Gura
6 months ago
Today,
@steveinskeep.bsky.social
interviewed Ty Cobb, who led the White House response to special counsel Robert Muellerâs investigation. âWhat did you think when you heard about the FBI search of John Boltonâs house and office?â Inskeep asked. âWell, I went down and locked my door,â Cobb replied.
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A truly incredible story.
@katiehonan.bsky.social
has reported on some crazy things, but this is just beyond.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/w...
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Eric Adams Advisor Winnie Greco Handed a CITY Reporter Cash Stuffed in a Bag of Potato Chips
THE CITY reported the incident to law enforcement and was promptly contacted by the Brooklyn U.S. attorneyâs office.
https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/20/winnie-greco-eric-adams-aide-attempted-cash-katie-honan-reporter/
6 months ago
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American officials "must spend less time worrying about how to weaken their rival and more time figuring out how to make their country the best and most vigorous version of itself." â Dan Wang and Arthur Kroeber
www.foreignaffairs.com/china/real-c...
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The Real China Model
Beijingâs enduring formula for wealth and power.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/real-china-model-wang-kroeber
6 months ago
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Highly relevant and useful to read today: Stacie Goddard's essay on Trump's vision of a concert of powers, which FA published back in April.
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Rise and Fall of Great-Power Competition
Trumpâs new spheres of influence.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/trump-rise-and-fall-great-power-competition
6 months ago
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dear lord flatbush farm is now a sweetgreen
6 months ago
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trying to imagine explaining this to 2015 me
6 months ago
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"Israelâs campaign in Gaza is the most lethal case of a Western democracy using the punishment of civilians as a tactic of war." â Robert A. Pape, author of "Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War"
www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/unpar...
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The Unparalleled Devastation of Gaza
Why punishing civilians has not yielded strategic success.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/unparalleled-devastation-gaza
6 months ago
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SAURONHENGE IS COMING
nygroove.nyc/eye-of-sauro...
6 months ago
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The long, sordid history of the tactics producing mass hunger in Gaza. "Throughout the twentieth century, starvation blockades were integral to Western strategic thinkingâand, as many statesmen saw it, to the maintenance of international order itself."
www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israe...
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Israel, Gaza, and the Starvation Weapon
The ICC tests a rarely prosecuted war crime.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/israel/israel-gaza-and-starvation-weapon
7 months ago
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"The coming wave of old and shrinking populations will fundamentally reshape geopolitics. In at least one way, that transformation will be for the better." â Mark Haas
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/coming...
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The Coming Pax Geriatrica
Aging societies and depopulation will lead to fewer wars.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/coming-pax-geriatrica
7 months ago
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"Believing you can outfox a fox is how you become its prey." â David Pressman (
ambpressman.bsky.social
) with a stark warning about institutional acquiescence.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/o...
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Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now Itâs Happening Here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/23/opinion/hungary-viktor-orban.html
7 months ago
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Caleb Crain
7 months ago
I wrote something about dissent and the motive for speaking out.
calebcrain.substack.com/p/the-motive...
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A good idea, I think.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/n...
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Mamdani, Urged to Keep Tisch as Police Commissioner, Is Considering It
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/nyregion/mamdani-jessica-tisch-nypd.html
7 months ago
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Perry World House
7 months ago
PWH Faculty Council member
@sarahbush.bsky.social
has a new piece in
@foreignaffairs.com
on the future of NGOs. Read here:
www.foreignaffairs.com/world/end-ag...
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The End of the Age of NGOs?
How civil society lost its postâCold War power.
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/end-age-ngos
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Melissa Chan
7 months ago
Me, to every young journalist I ever meet.
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