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William Sposato is a Tokyo-based journalist who has been a contributor to Foreign Policy since 2015. He has been following ...

Hydroterrorism and other water-related crises, from the Sahel to Central Asia.

On July 26, Taiwan will set a new record for a developed democracy, holding recall referendums for 24 opposition legislators ...

The highlights this week: U.S. President Donald Trump’s attacks on Brazil reflect a larger conflict over the U.S. dollar, ...

Former Ehud Olmert in recent months has emerged as one of the fiercest internal critics of his country’s war in Gaza. Olmert ...

Aaron David Miller is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a former U.S. State Department ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at how Japan ’s election results could hamper U.S. trade talks, Israeli ...

Howard W. French is a columnist at Foreign Policy, a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and ...

International institutions need to start treating water as a national security flashpoint.

Last week, Trump announced a sweeping 50 percent tariff on all Brazilian exports to the United States beginning Aug. 1. In a ...