Sharaa’s Successful UNGA PR Tour  foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/24/s... @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com

"All I got from the United Nations was a broken escalator and a broken teleprompter," Trump tells UNGA.

UNGA Puts Palestine in the Spotlight foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/22/u... @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social @foreignpolicy.com

High-level week of #UNGA starts tomorrow! @iyengarish.bsky.social and I will be on the ground all week. Keep an eye out for daily pop-up editions of SitRep. We’ll bring you all of the most important/juiciest details from UN HQ. Sign up for our newsletter here: foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/18/w...

NEW: As Trump and Xi were in the middle of their phone call this morning, I sat down with Taiwan's de-facto Ambassador to Washington for the second time in 14 months. A lot has changed in that time, but he insists that the fundamentals—and the stakes—have not. foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/19/t...

Trump officially extends the divest-or-ban deadline on TikTok for a THIRD time, even as officials on both sides indicate a deal to transfer the app to U.S. ownership has been reached—new deadline is Dec. 16 Our piece from back in April (the first extension): foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/03/t...

Throughout the Israel-Hamas war, concerns have been raised about the potential for a regional conflict to break out. But in many ways, this is already the reality in the Middle East, write FP’s @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social and @iyengarish.bsky.social.

Wrote a bit more about the Department of Defense/War confusion in this week's @foreignpolicy.com Situation Report, with @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/11/i...

"We emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked 'reply all'—inadvertently disclosing email addresses and names of fellow Infidels MC members...working in Gaza." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'm at the @billingtoncyber.bsky.social summit in DC and most Pentagon speakers have changed from Department of Defense to Department of War (DoW) on the program. One speaker even said "DoD" in his intro before reverting to "Department of War" -- audible chuckles in the audience at every mention.

A Tale of One City.

Why did the Trump administration take a 10% stake in Intel, making the U.S. government the biggest shareholder in the chipmaker? My latest @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/27/t...

A real pop-up ad I just got on Truth Social.

Doug Beck, the head of the Pentagon's Defense Innovation Unit, reportedly resigned suddenly today. I sat down with Beck last year for a detailed interview @foreignpolicy.com about his goals for the agency and the U.S. military's tech race with China: foreignpolicy.com/2024/02/12/p...

“I’ve ended six wars,” Trump told Zelensky and several reporters in the White House on Monday. But the reality is a bit murkier, write FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social and @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social.

As a fellow Pixel propagandist I wholeheartedly endorse this @shiraovide.bsky.social share.google/Vd52oyjcCZWc...

“This is actually not going well for Putin,” Kurt Volker, former U.S. amb to NATO and special representative for Ukraine negotiations, told me. “He doesn’t ever want to admit that, but I think he knows it. And we should not be rushing this on the assumption that Ukraine’s going to be defeated.”

The situation remains challenging along the 600-mile front line in Ukraine. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/18/u...

How it started/How it's going foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/18/t...

Great profile piece, eg: Finnish President Alexander Stubb “has formed a close relationship with Trump in recent months (in part over Trump’s administration for Stubb’s excellent golf game), which has given him an opening to caution Trump against trusting Russian President Vladimir Putin.”

"Who Zelensky Is Bringing to Washington—and Why" - by @iyengarish.bsky.social at @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/18/z...

Europe's Redeem Team comes to Washington. My @foreignpolicy.com roundup of who's accompanying Zelensky to meet Trump in the White House today, and what each of them bring to the table: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/18/z...

For some reason I cannot stop singing "Next time in Moscow and the world's your oyster"

As Trump and Putin convene this afternoon, FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social gives a who’s who of their respective delegations—and who got left behind.

Deciphering Trump's entourage in Alaska to meet Putin: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/15/t... via @foreignpolicy.com

As Trump and Putin meet in Alaska, FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social and @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social outline what both presidents want out of the summit and what they’re likely to get.

For nearly a decade, the prevailing bipartisan consensus has been that the U.S. must contain China's tech industry and national security concerns must supersede trade imperatives. Trump has upended both of those. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/13/t... with @kfj-fp.bsky.social for @foreignpolicy.com

For nearly a decade, the prevailing bipartisan consensus has been that the U.S. must contain China's tech industry and national security concerns must supersede trade imperatives. Trump has upended both of those. foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/13/t... with @kfj-fp.bsky.social for @foreignpolicy.com

This song keeps getting knocked down but it always gets up again.

“When there is an airdrop, my colleagues at the field hospital get their emergency room ready to receive patients.” Must-read by @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social on starvation in Gaza: foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/08/g...

Looking forward to going on @wamu.org's 1A international roundup in an hour (11 a.m. ET) with Jack Detsch and Kriti Gupta! Listen here, or wherever you get your radio sounds wamu.org/story/25/08/...

NEW: Trump has rapidly lost patience with Putin, but so far he's only taken it out on India. Punitive measures against China—and Russia itself—remain in the chamber. So far, we've seen more signals than sanctions. (with @kfj-fp.bsky.social via @foreignpolicy.com) foreignpolicy.com/2025/08/06/t...

can't emphasize enough how crap search is nowadays, if I want to find something from the 2000s or even 2010s it's quicker for me to remember which blogs would have covered the story and go through their archives

Since we published this two days ago, we've had: - An extension for Mexico - Higher tariffs on Canada - Updated tariffs on more than 60 countries We've also added a map! Gift link: foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

France and Saudi Arabia co-hosted a conference at the U.N. this week that aimed to breathe new life into the long-standing but elusive goal of a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine. @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social and @iyengarish.bsky.social break it down:

Here's a gift link to the @washingtonpost.com's virtually endless story today listing all the known names of the children killed in Gaza. wapo.st/3IRLZn6

The Trump administration touted "90 deals in 90 days." With two days until the latest deadline, we have six deals—and even a couple of those are fuzzy on the details. We built a Trump Trade Tracker @foreignpolicy.com to follow tariff deals as they happen. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/30/t...

UN chief says Palestinian statehood is “a right, not a reward.” He warns that denying statehood would be a gift to extremists everywhere.

“Elon Musk’s current global dominance exemplifies the dangers of concentrated power in unregulated domains” and his control of Starlink allows “his whims to dictate access to vital infrastructure.” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

AUKUS Gets Raucous. Latest @foreignpolicy.com Situation Report with @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/24/a...

Trump has shown that he is willing to use trade as a weapon against pretty much anyone, writes FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social.

An AI slop factory apparently tried to rewrite our article about AI not replacing workers en masse, but hit the paywall... so just summarised the paywall. If this is the robot that takes my job I'll be v embarrassed

NEW @foreignpolicy.com: Biden and Europe left India's purchases of Russian oil alone after some initial hand-wringing. Now, Trump and Rutte (and Lindsay Graham) are restarting that potentially uncomfortable conversation. [GIFT LINK] foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/24/t...

I was at the Coldplay Boston concert, AMA

“I was left with the clear impression that they now share our analysis that the real troublemaker is Putin,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen told me in Washington this week. Latest Situation Report @foreignpolicy.com with @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/10/t...

Elon Musk went from liberal darling to MAGA acolyte to wannabe disruptor of the United States' two-party system altogether. He's not the first to try and history says he's unlikely to succeed, but also no one has ever had this much wealth. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/09/e... via @foreignpolicy.com

Presidents and prime ministers come and go, but The Quad endures...kind of. New @foreignpolicy.com Situation Report, with @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/03/q...

Presidents and prime ministers come and go, but The Quad endures...kind of. New @foreignpolicy.com Situation Report, with @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social. foreignpolicy.com/2025/07/03/q...

Why don't we save ourselves some time and just give The Bear all the awards right now

The 2025 NATO summit in The Hague was all about making Trump happy, even while the bloc was held hostage by his demands, report FP’s @iyengarish.bsky.social and @jchaltiwanger.bsky.social.