Category Archives: Foreign Affairs

THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE – JUNE 2026

The Magazine - June 2026

THE NEW REPUBLIC MAGAZINE: The latest issue features a cover story analyzing the president’s mental fitness alongside reporting on administration impacts on higher education, energy, and agriculture. The issue also explores social issues, including the anti-abortion movement, the rise of digital misogyny, and cultural critiques of television and literature.

Donald Trump Is Finally Cracking Up for Real

His recent tirades confirmed what more than half of America now believes: The president is mentally unfit. How will we survive two and a half more years of this? And what’s he got in store for us?

Trump’s January 6 Slush Fund Is a Criminal Enterprise

The president has long been operating under the assumption that he is immune from prosecution. His latest scheme, however, may be a step too far.

Losing It

Seriously – 2 1/2 more years of this?

The Election Fraudsters Who Will Follow in Tina Peters’s Footsteps

We can debate all day whether Colorado Governor Jared Polis should have commuted her sentence. Meanwhile, state and local officials are openly preparing to meddle in the midterm elections.

Why Trump Is So Afraid of Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, and The View

Political scientist Meredith Conroy says that late-night shows are still politically relevant in as their audiences shrink.

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – MAY 22, 2026

Definitely, maybe

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘Definitely, maybe? – Inside Andy Burnham’s leadership bid – and the campaigns under way to stop him.

Keir Starmer is a dishonest man

His successor must make a break with this failing government By Freddie Hayward

The Europe dilemma

Should the UK rejoin the EU? Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon weigh in By Caroline Lucas and Anand Menon

ECHR derangement syndrome

The great bête noire of the modern right is driving them beyond reasonBy Marina Wheeler

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – JUNE 2026 PREVIEW

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘The Covenant And The Wooden Box’ – The Betrayal of Britain’s Jews and the Corruption of Its Ruling Class.

The Covenant and the Wooden Box

by Mike Burke

The betrayal of Britain’s Jews and the corruption of its ruling class

In the northeast corner of Parliament Square, in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, stands a bronze figure 12 feet high. Winston Churchill chose the spot himself in the 1950s, drawing a circle on a map and declaring with the finality of a man who knew his own place in history: “That is where my statue will go.” It was unveiled on the 1st of November in 1973. When the Queen spoke, she revealed a secret that Churchill himself had guarded: When offered a dukedom at the end of his life, he turned it down. He wished to spend his remaining years in the House of Commons—the Parliament he had saved, and that he loved more than any title the Crown could bestow.

The Analogy Wars

by John Podhoretz

For a decade, we’ve been awash in analogies between America in the Age of Trump and Germany in the two decades following World War I.

Most Democrats Don’t Like Israel Any Longer. Period.

by James Kirchick

The Declaration of Dependence

by Christine Rosen

NATIONAL REVIEW MAGAZINE – JULY 2026 PREVIEW

NATIONAL REVIEW: The latest issue features ‘The Cost of Fraud’ – And what to do about it.

Why the Fight Against Fraud Must Be Won

American taxpayers deserve better. Robert VerBruggen

I, Obama: Our Insufferable Ex-President

He is a committed ideologue and a partisan brawler who’s worked out how to hide those traits from the general public. Charles C. W. Cooke

The Scourge of Left-Wing Violence

What we learned from the riots of 2020. Noah Rothman

PROSPECT MAGAZINE —— JUNE 2026 PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Social Media in the Dock’ – Lawsuits and user bans threaten social media and internet free-speech protections. Ethan Zuckerman asks: do these platforms really harm young people? Plus, Isabel Hilton on the new star wars and Kate Clanchy on Kathleen Stock

The social network in the dock

It is far from proven that social media platforms cause teenagers harm Ethan Zuckerman

The EU’s sweet victory in Hungary

The pro-European forces of liberal democratic virtue not only won when Viktor Orbán was defeated, but smashed it Andrew Adonis

The Iran war has left the UK poorer than it hoped to be

Duncan Weldon

The depopulation bomb about to hit Britain

Tom Clark

The new race for space

Isabel Hilton

Here, at last, is Sylvia Plath

Jeremy Noel-Tod

Sheila Hancock: I thought I might faint in front of all the Dames

Sheila Hancock

Obituary: A brimful of Asha Bhosle

Ammar Kalia

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – MAY 1, 2026

New Statesman | UK Politics & Culture Magazine

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘The cover-up?’ – The prince, his protectors and the questions that must be answered.

The cover-up?

The prince, his protectors and the questions that must be answered By Gordon Brown

Assisted dying: an autopsy

Less than a year ago, campaigners for the bill were optimistic it would pass – what went wrong? By Hannah Barnes

Young, down and out of work

How Britain failed a generation of Neets By Anoosh Chakelian

There should be no hiding place for anyone involved in the Epstein scandal

The scale of Britain’s involvement is still not fully understood By Tom McTague

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE – MAY/JUNE 2026 PREVIEW

FOREIGN AFFAIRS MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘How (Not) to Fight and Economic War

The Real War for Iran’s Future

Who Will Determine the Fate of the Islamic Republic?

The Third Islamic Republic

A War’s Unintended Consequences—for Iran, the Middle East, and the Global Order

The Iran Imperative

How America and Israel Can Shape a New Middle East

How to Fight an Economic War

A Field Manual for a Ruptured World

The Iran Shock

And the Dangerous Allure of Energy Autarky

Jason Bordoff and Meghan L. O’Sullivan

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – MAY 2026 PREVIEW

May 2026 – Commentary Magazine

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE: The latest issue features ‘Anti-Americanism Is a Disease‘ – Patriotism is the Cure by Charles Fain Lehman

Anti-Americanism Is a Disease

by Charles Fain Lehman

Think what you will about Donald Trump; no one can deny his flair. Take, for example, a segment of his State of the Union speech earlier this year. “I’m inviting every legislator to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle,” Trump said. “If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support: The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.”

What Victory Looks Like When Your Foe Won’t Surrender

by Jonathan Schanzer

The U.S. can win without Iran acknowledging it lost

Let Me Explain What an Enemy Is

by John Podhoretz

The Heaven and the Earth

by Meir Y. Soloveichik

America at 250: Our Lost Opportunity

by Robert Pondiscio

In 1976, a national celebration kindled my lifelong love of America. Can you imagine that today?

THE NEW STATESMAN MAGAZINE – APRIL 17, 2026

New Statesman | UK Politics & Culture Magazine

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘Angry Young Women’ – The new feminism reshaping Britain…

Meet the Angry Young Women

Across Britain a radical new feminism is rising. By Emily Lawford

Revealed: the new radicalism among young women

Merlin Strategy’s exclusive polling reveals a growing gender divide among under-30s. By Scarlett Maguire

We’re all stuck in Donald Trump’s cage fight

The Iran war is spiralling. America’s adversaries are enjoying the show. By Katie Stallard