Category Archives: Foreign Affairs

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – SEPT. 11, 2026

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The World According To Ed’ – How Miliband plans to reset British foreign policy – starting with Israel….

Ed Miliband is remaking Britain’s foreign policy

The Foreign Secretary has unveiled the biggest reset in UK relations with Israel for decades By Ailbhe Rea

Does America even remember 9/11?

Its legacy has been twisted out of recognition By Freddie Hayward

Palestine’s children have suffered untold horrors

The young are too often the greatest casualties of war By Gordon Brown

Vinted Brain

How Britain lost its mind to online shopping addiction By Kate Mossman

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE – FALL 2026 PREVIEW

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How to Survive in a World Without Rules’ – Essays from: Hal Brands, Charles A. Kupchan, Mariana Mazzucato, and Michael Beckley….

How to Survive in a World Without Rules

Self-help is becoming more vital in a vicious world.

The World’s Only Real Hope of Maintaining Order This article has an audio recording

A proposal for a new international system that is at once centralized and regionalized. 

How to Write Better Rules for Global Finance

The importance of a “common good” compass.

A New Engine of Development

The era of easy growth is over, but rich and poor countries can still join forces.

MOMENT MAGAZINE – FALL 2026 ISSUE PREVIEW

MOMENT MAGAZINE : The latest issue feature ‘The Divided Jewish Voter’…

The GOP’s Tucker Carlson Problem

Jewish Voters at Midterm: Emotional, Angry, Torn, Inspired—or All of the Above?

Yale University Press Decides 100 ‘Jewish Lives’ Are Enough

Can Jewish groups work with the Democratic Socialists of America?

NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE – OCTOBER 2026 PREVIEW

NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘Improving By Degrees’…

Have We Turned the Corner on Higher Ed?

The battle has not yet been won, but the signs are auspicious. Frederick M. Hess

Mamdani’s Intifada

The dangerous Islamist-socialist vanguard. Andrew C. McCarthy

Chasing Lost Edens

The real divide in America today: nostalgia vs. reality. Charles C. W. Cooke

The New Generation of Defense Wizards

Where Silicon Valley meets the Pentagon, the wheels of innovation are whirring. Luther Ray Abel

Best Western: A Road Trip from Ohio to the Pacific

I hiked, I camped, I conquered. Sarah Schutte

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2026

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The End Of The Alliance?’

The Abandoned Order

Learning to Live in a Post-American World by Mark Leonard

AI and the New Age of Bioweapons

Preparing for a World of Synthetic Pathogens by Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

A China Strategy That Lasts

Congress Must Lead to Compete With Beijing by Bill Cassidy

How Alliances Survive

The Case Against Pessimism and the Path to a New Allied Order by Kurt M. Campbell and Rush Doshi

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – SEPTEMBER 2026

September 2026 – Commentary Magazine

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How We Won The War On Terror’ – 25 Years after 9/11

How We Won the War on Terror

by Tod Lindberg

On September 20, 2001, President George W. Bush gave a major speech to Congress and the country in which he outlined the coming U.S. response to al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attack. He said, “Our war on terror begins with al-Qaeda, but it does not end there. It will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped, and defeated.” Thus began what would soon be known as the “Global War on Terror,” or GWOT, in its unlovely acronym

Toxic Smaxxulinity

by Christine Rosen

It’s a confusing time to be a man. For decades, the cultural left has insisted that “toxic masculinity” is roaming the land, threatening women’s safety and rights. 

The Saudi Choice That Will Reshape the Middle East

by Jonathan Schanzer

Two possible paths, one pro-American, one not. Where will the Kingdom go?

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – AUGUST 14, 2026

Cover Story - New Statesman

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘A Very British Scandal’ – What the Jason Arday affair reveals about the UK.

The fall of Jason Arday

What does the response to his public disgrace tell us about Britain? By Pratinav Anil

A dream of Cambridge

The university’s place in the public imagination is as illusory as Jason Arday’s academic credentials By David Runciman

The world is more dangerous than I can ever remember

We are running out of time By Jeremy Bowen

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – AUGUST 7, 2026

Europe's shame

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘Europe’s Shame’ – Attacked from all sides, the continent has turned against itself.

The Ceuta crisis has exposed Europe’s hollow centre

How the incursion revealed a continent divided against itself. By Bruno Maçães

Abandon all hope ye who examine government spending

Watch the full horror of our finances unroll before you By Will Dunn

Welcome to the pyrocene

This summer has proved that some people would rather watch things burn than inconvenience capitalism By Richard Seymour

The prophet of the new right

In the life and work of Correlli Barnett, we can find all the most dangerous currents of contemporary conservatism. By John Merrick

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JULY 31, 2026

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The New Terror’ – How the nuclear shadow returned….

The new nuclear terror

Our Cold War nightmares have returned as a global arms race By Katie Stallard

The responsibility of scientists

We created the nuclear monster. We must warn against it now By Carlo Rovelli

Andy Burnham’s shtick won’t work on Donald Trump

Maga officials view the “special relationship” as insulting By Freddie Hayward

Inside the Green Party’s defence divide

The left-wing faction behind Zack Polanski has called on the party to oppose increases to defence spending By Megan Kenyon

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – JULY 24, 2026

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The Take Over’ – Inside Andy Burnham’s first days in No. 10….

The take over

In his first days in No 10, Andy Burnham showed his determination to do politics differently By Ailbhe Rea

No laughing matter

Jim Davidson and Nigel Farage represent an England that will not go quietly By Nicholas Harris

Gabriel Zucman: “There is an extreme wealth curse”

The French economist on the lies the rich tell us about wealth tax By Will Dunn