The United States is still the most economically and militarily powerful country in the world. But it is becoming absent from, if not actively hostile toward, the existing international order. Read FP’s new print issue, The World Minus One, here: foreignpolicy.com/the-magazine...

For @foreignpolicy.com's latest fiction column, @ameakem.bsky.social & I read Galapagos, a fever dream of a plague novel, and @mverunschk.bsky.social's The Jaguar's Roar. Our take on these two unsettling voyages across the sea:

I reviewed the new English translation of Finnish author Iida Turpeinen's bestselling novel, "Beasts of the Sea." It's an elegy to species lost amid the endless spiral of human greed.

For @foreignpolicy.com I did a deep dive on Brazil's effort to keep climate cooperation alive despite highly adverse geopolitics. While some have said the U.S. retreat on this issue creates an opening for China, Brazil is also flexing its voice as a middle power and raising 🧵

I was bowled over by @annanorth.bsky.social's new novel, Bog Queen. My review (alongside @ameakem.bsky.social on Jaquira Díaz's debut) in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/03/i...

My October fiction pick is Jaquira Díaz's "This Is the Only Kingdom," a sweeping, multigenerational novel set between the projects of Humacao, Puerto Rico, and Miami Beach.

This October, FP’s @hadavas.bsky.social and @ameakem.bsky.social dive into historical fiction set in ancient Britain and 20th-century Puerto Rico.

In @foreignpolicy.com: 🇧🇷’s top court convicted Bolsonaro & allies of attempting a coup to stay in power after losing the 2022 vote. In a country w a long history of coups, it was the 1st time a civilian court convicted military members of coup-related charges. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/11/b...

For FP's September fiction column, I reviewed Lao-Canadian writer Souvankham Thammavongsa's debut novel, "Pick a Color."

For context on Germany's historic decision to halt offensive weapons exports to Israel, I highly recommend @isaliba.bsky.social's February piece in @foreignpolicy.com, where he explicitly called on Berlin to take this step.

FP's August fiction column is all about the dog days of summer! I reviewed @laurengrodstein.bsky.social's "A Dog in Georgia," a novel that remains smile-inducing even as it toggles from terriers to tear gas.

In this month’s international fiction column, FP’s @hadavas.bsky.social and @ameakem.bsky.social recommend two newly released novels to beat the summer heat, both featuring man’s best friend.

Today in @ccosborn.bsky.social's Latin America Brief: After punishing Brazil for Bolsonaro's trial, the Trump administration has expressed outrage over the conviction of another right-wing ally this week in Colombia.

July releases (& more!) in @foreignpolicy.com's latest monthly fiction column with @ameakem.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/04/i...

I reviewed @rubenwrites.bsky.social's magnificent debut novel, "Archive of Unknown Universes," where he sends his characters on an adventure through a quasi-multiverse to explore alternate outcomes of El Salvador’s 1972-92 civil war.

Meet Kat Abughazaleh, the 26-year-old personal foe of Elon Musk who is running for Illinois’s 9th Congressional District. 1/4 foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/02/k...

Maciej Kisilowski and Anna Wojciuk, professors who have worked in Hungary and Poland, argue that Harvard and other prestigious U.S. universities may have to move abroad to protect their values. Their piece has only become more relevant today with Jim Ryan's resignation at UVA.

Yousef Munayyer argues that Trump's unrealistic demand for zero Iranian enrichment has made war—and eventual U.S.-backed regime change—an inevitability.

Truly cannot stop raving to everyone I know about Maria Reva's debut novel, Endling. My review—alongside @ameakem.bsky.social's take on Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo's latest—in @foreignpolicy.com: foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/06/i...

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Latin America Brief looks at 🇲🇽’s shock therapy to its judiciary. Plans for the nationwide election had already rankled trade partners before it produced a top court full of judges tied to the ruling party on Sunday. foreignpolicy.com/2025/06/06/m...

I reviewed Nigerian writer Esther Ifesinachi Okonkwo's debut novel, "The Tiny Things Are Heavier." Set between Iowa and Lagos, this book has it all: Romance, family drama, dark academia, travel, and crime.

The "naming and shaming" human rights strategy hasn't kept major international hotel chains from expanding their operations in China's Xinjiang province, @peterirwin.bsky.social and @henrykszad.bsky.social write.

Mexico is set to hold its first-ever judicial elections on Sunday following a controversial judicial reform that AMLO pushed through during his lame-duck period last year. Emiliano Polo argues that the overhaul will erode due process in the country.

Trump wants to choke off incoming flows of international students—a group that has long driven scientific innovation in America and pumped tens of billions of dollars into the U.S. economy. @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/30/t...

Today in @ccosborn.bsky.social's Latin America Brief: It's been a big week for Suriname, which held elections on Sunday and saw its former foreign minister take office as OAS secretary-general.

ICYMI last week: Ric Grenell and Marco Rubio appear to be duking it out behind the scenes on U.S. Venezuela policy.

The Gaza Sunbirds paracycling team announced that an Israeli airstrike on Monday killed one of their members, Ahmed Al-Dali. @foreignpolicy.com ran a feature on the Sunbirds and their quest to compete in the Paralympics last September.

As BRICS expands and the world becomes more volatile, @oliverstuenkel.bsky.social argues that the bloc's three democracies—Brazil, India, and South Africa—should resurrect a long-dormant diplomatic forum to advance their interests.

Today’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about the CELAC-China forum & related meetings. While Colombia’s BRI accession made headlines, the week also showed how Brazil’s China policy has evolved alongside its industrial policy. foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/16/c...

Trump's aid freeze has had particularly drastic impacts in Colombia, which until January relied on U.S. funding to carry out many official government operations—including support for Venezuelan migrants, Christina Noriega reports.

Former Uruguayan President José "Pepe" Mujica has died at age 89. Our obituary:

Israel's attacks on Syria risk creating further political instability in Jordan, where a 30-year-old peace treaty with Israel is increasingly on ice, @burcuozcelik.bsky.social writes.

For our May fiction column, I reviewed Mo Ogdronik's "Gulf," an uncomfortable portrait of a region whose economic allure is undergirded by troublesome social and political realities.

Reviewed @jemmawei.bsky.social's glorious debut novel, The Original Daughter, in @foreignpolicy.com's latest fiction column: foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/02/i...

Today in @ccosborn.bsky.social's Latin America Brief: Milei's moves to partially float the peso against the dollar are going... surprisingly well so far?

For @foreignpolicy.com, I put together a primer on Pierre Poilievre: The man who was supposed to bring conservatism back to Canada — and how Trump may have screwed it up. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/17/p...

Since 2018, incumbents have lost almost all democratic elections in Latin America. Oliver Stuenkel and Margot Treadwell explain how Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa avoided this fate in Sunday's vote.

Not to be overlooked in the deluge of news we face every day: Kurdish groups in Syria and Turkey have made major inroads toward political integration in recent months, Mashuq Kurt and Bilal Ata Aktas write.

It's been one month since Trump set out to demolish the U.S. Agency for Global Media. Foreign journalists who worked for U.S.-funded outlets could find themselves persecuted as a result, @liamjscott.bsky.social writes.

A snapshot of the April releases I've rounded up in @foreignpolicy.com's latest fiction column: foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/04/i...

Lovers of romcoms AND foreign policy: Meet "Liquid." In her debut novel, Mariam Rahmani offers both flitty summer romance and critiques of U.S. sanctions on Iran. My review is in FP's April fiction column!

This week’s @foreignpolicy.com Lat Am Brief is about how officials in the region are responding to Wednesday’s round of U.S. tariffs—which some expected would be more severe. Plus, what Gabriel Boric and Narendra Modi agreed on during Boric's visit to India.  foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/03/w...

About time for German media outlets to get to the bottom of this story. theintercept.com/2025/03/31/g...

As Canada faces unprecedented territorial and economic threats from the United States, it might find support in its ties to the British monarchy, @johnwlast.bsky.social writes.

"The American people must be clear-eyed about the prison system to which their government is sending deported migrants—which, in the worst-case scenario, could one day hold U.S. citizens, too," @noahbullock.bsky.social writes in this chilling piece about El Salvador.

Timely reading in FP today by @katz.theracket.news, as El Salvador receives the first planeloads of Venezuelan migrants Trump has deported from the United States in defiance of a court order.

Liam was one of the best interns we've ever had at FP. He went on to do amazing things at VOA, which Trump shut down over the weekend. Please take the time to read Liam's powerful post below, and keep him in mind if you're hiring.

I reviewed Lawrence Wright's upcoming book, "The Human Scale." It's a crime novel set in Israeli-occupied Hebron in the weeks leading up to Oct. 7, 2023.

A Paraguayan candidate for OAS secretary-general who sought to cozy up to Trump dropped out of the race this week, as countries of all ideological stripes rallied behind his Surinamese opponent, FP's @ccosborn.bsky.social reports in our latest Latin America Brief.

Stop beating around the bush: Trump's loyalties lie with authoritarians—and "MAGA ideology aligns more closely with Putin’s vision... than with Western liberal democracy," Maciej Kisilowski and Anna Wojciuk write.