Category Archives: Foreign Affairs

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE – JULY/AUGUST 2025 PREVIEW

July/August 2025 – Commentary Magazine

COMMENTARY MAGAZINE (June 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘The War Against The War Against The Jews’…

Israel and America Say ‘Enough’: A Commentary Editorial

Sorry, Haters of Males

Social Commentary by Christine Rosen

A Musky Odor

Tech Commentary by James B. Meigs

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 21, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE (June 19, 2025): The latest issue features ‘How will this end?‘….

Where will the Iran-Israel war end?

In a worse place if Donald Trump rushes in

To keep Russia out and America in, NATO must spend more

European members need a hard date to boost their defence budgets

Japan’s government bonds: this time it won’t end well

Even as interest costs mount, politicians promise hando

Why MAGA’s pro-natalist plans are ill-conceived

Efforts to deliver a baby boom either fail or cost a fortune

MOMENT MAGAZINE – SUMMER 2025 ISSUE

MOMENT MAGAZINE (June 16, 2025): The Summer Double Issue 2025 features ‘What’s Changed Since 1975?’; Time traveling with Moment and 50 years of art & food….

Anniversary Essay | Time Traveling with Moment

What has happened during the last 50 years that would have surprised most American Jews in 1975? What challenges lie ahead?

Opinion | Tranquility Will Have to Wait

NATIONAL REVIEW – AUGUST 2025 OPINION PREVIEW

NATIONAL REVIEW (June 13, 2025): The latest issue features ‘In Search of Normalcy’ – What the two parties aren’t giving Americans…

In Search of Normalcy: What the Two Parties Aren’t Giving America

People just want things to work. Charles C. W. Cooke

Trump’s Apology Tour

By Noah Rothman

DOGE Takes a Nibble Out of Big Government

By Jim Geraghty

THE NEW STATESMAN – JUNE 13, 2025 POLITICS PREVIEW

THE NEW STATESMAN: The latest issue features ‘What He Can’t Say’ – On the road with Kier Starmer…

Gaza diary: Amid the rubble

One family’s experience of life and death in the war zone. By Sondos Sabra

Laughing at the populist right is not a political strategy

The civil wars within Maga and Reform UK only show how dangerous they are. By Andrew Marr

What Keir Starmer can’t say

The Prime Minister believes he will heal Britain – but can he find the words ? By Tom McTague

Ideas for Keir

Tracey Emin, Jeremy Corbyn, Piers Morgan and others on what the Prime Minister should do next.

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – JUNE 13, 2025 PREVIEW

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY: The latest issue features ‘Flollowing The Amazon Defenders’ – A journey to the heart of the rainforest, three years after the deaths of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira…

It’s three years since the murders of the journalist Dom Phillips and the Indigenous activist Bruno Pereira, who were both killed on a visit to the remote Javari valley in the Brazilian Amazon.

Dom was a Guardian contributor based in Brazil, whose reporting often appeared in the Guardian Weekly. Last week his widow, Alessandra Sampaio, came to visit our London offices along with Beto Marubo, an Indigenous leader from the Brazilian Amazon.

From the other side of the world it’s easy to feel far removed from the activities of criminal gangs that threaten the Amazon’s Indigenous people and plunder its natural resources. But hearing Beto and Alessandra speak so powerfully about the impact of Dom and Bruno’s work reminded me why we need to stay focused on a region that defies easy scrutiny.

PROSPECT MAGAZINE – JULY 2025 POLITICS PREVIEW

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PROSPECT MAGAZINE: The latest issue features Daron Acemoglu reveals what tech bros won’t say about AI, while Peter Hoskin explains how gaming made the future. Plus, Neil Kinnock on Labour’s “paralytic caution”, Alona Ferber tours settler Jerusalem & Atul Dev on US universities’ capitulation to Trump

AI’s biggest secret: we can shape it

Artificial intelligence is poised to transform the world. Tech bros want it to subjugate us—but it doesn’t have to be that way

When students protested, Columbia capitulated

Atul Dev

The Englishman on a crusade to ban UNRWA

Alona Ferber

The strange death of the Rejoin campaign

Foreign Policy Magazine – The AI Arms Race, June 2025

The cover page of an FP Collection titled The AI Arms Race with an illustration of people gathered around a digital table.

FOREIGN POLICY MAGAZINE: This issue features ‘The AI Arms Race’ , a collection of must-read articles on the convergence of artificial intelligence and geopolitics. With the U.S. and China escalating their intense battle for AI supremacy across economic and military spheres, power dynamics are already shifting. FP provides the full picture for you to download and read at your leisure. Unlock this collection, along with more hard-hitting geopolitical analysis.

10 New AI Challenges—and How to Meet Them

“Doomers” have mostly self-silenced, but that doesn’t mean the technology has become any safer. | Bhaskar Chakravorti

The Next AI Debate Is About Geopolitics

Data might be the “new oil,” but nations—not nature—will decide where to build data centers.  Jared Cohen

What DeepSeek Revealed About the Future of U.S.-China Competition

Washington faces a daunting but critical task.

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE – JUNE 7, 2025 PREVIEW

THE ECONOMIST MAGAZINE: The June 7, 2025 issue features ‘Phew, it’s a girl!’ – The stunning decline of boy preference…

The stunning decline of the preference for having boys

Millions of girls were aborted for being girls. Now parents often lean towards them

America’s tax on foreign investors could do more damage than tariffs

Provisions in the Republican budget are a dangerous step

The West is rethinking how to fight wars

Ukraine’s daring raid on Russia has lessons for European armed forces. But they need cash, too

Myanmar is a demonstration of Chinese hegemony in action

China is playing all sides in the country’s bloody civil war

Africa’s most admired dictator rolls the dice

Kagame’s intervention in Congo threatens his legacy at home

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY – JUNE 6, 2025 – PREVIEW

THE GUARDIAN WEEKLY (June 4, 2025): The latest issue features ‘Trump vs Harvard’ – America’s oldest university and the battle for democracy…

The gowns and mortar boards were out in customary force at Harvard last week for graduation day. Founded in 1636, 140 years before the United States itself, the university knows a thing or two about how to do pomp and ceremony.

But this year’s rituals played out under a cloud with Harvard, along with several other universities in the US, having come under sustained attack from the Trump administration.

Trump has claimed his escalating battle with America’s oldest, wealthiest and most prestigious university is about tackling campus antisemitism, foreign influence and “woke” or “leftist” ideology in academia. Others see a more sinister authoritarian agenda, where the goal is to enforce deference from America’s largest institutions. Bring down the oldest of them all, the theory goes, and the rest will surely follow.

Five essential reads in this week’s edition

The big story | Is Viktor Orbán’s grip on power weakening?
Opposition activists and journalists explain why the Orbánisation of the US may fail and how a former ally could end the Hungarian PM’s 15-year reign. By Ashifa Kassam and Flora Garamvolgyi in Budapest

Science | The risk and reward of rapid Everest ascents
The use of xenon gas and hypoxic tents before recent expeditions has triggered alarm in Nepal, where guides fear it could encourage inexperienced climbers. Hannah Ellis-Petersen and Gaurav Pokharel report

Interview | Jacinda Ardern on leadership, legacy and why she quit
The former prime minister of New Zealand tried to do politics differently. But six years into power she dramatically resigned. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, Katharine Viner, she explains why

Opinion | So long, Elon: all you really shredded was your reputation
Judging by Musk’s approval ratings, Tesla investors won’t be the only ones happy to see the dethroning of the king of Doge, writes Marina Hyde

Culture | Inside Britain’s new museum of absolutely everything
Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture … Oliver Wainwright is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000 artefacts