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Xi-Trump Summit in Beijing Was Great Theater, Little Substance

The recent US–China summit in Beijing, though symbolically significant as the first meeting between the two leaders on Chinese soil in nine years, yielded little concrete progress. While both sides... Read full article

David Mahon - May 22, 2026

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Economics and Finance
Donroe Doctrine Makes Guyana Key for US Latin America Policy
by Atul Singh
Culture
College and Comedy? Free Expression and the Power of the Audience
by Luvell Anderson
American News
South America Has Tilted Right. Will Colombia Follow?
by German Peinado Delgado & Glenn Ojeda Vega
Politics
Trump as the GOAT (Or So He Believes)
by Robert Lipsyte

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Mediaphobia — A Timeline of Panic

by Ellis Cashmore

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The Indian Subcontinent’s Hindu–Muslim Divide

by Pocket Dynamo, Atul Singh & Ishtiaq Ahmed

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Easter and Passover Explained: Two Stories, One Crossing

by Liam Roman, Casey Herrmann & Roberta Artemisia Campani

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Understanding the 1975 Autocratic “Emergency” in India

by Vikram K. Malkani, Atul Singh & Lee Thompson-Kolar

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The Story of World War II

by Atul Singh, Abul-Hasanat Siddique & Anton Schauble

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What Are Your Plans for Doomsday?

Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove once seemed like savage satire, but today its nightmare logic feels uncomfortably real. The evolution from...

Have Europe’s Banished Devils Returned?

From the postwar boom to today’s fracturing world order, the West’s “glorious” mid-20th century decades of...

A Taste for Genocide: Why the West Can’t Shake Its Most Violent Habits

From the scorched earth of the Thirty Years’ War to the “Strait of Hormuz Apocalypse,” the...

FO Exclusive: US–Iran Double Blockade of Hormuz Threatens Global Economy

In this section of the April 2026 episode of FO...

by Glenn Carle & Atul Singh

Staged? Why Conspiracy Theories Are Stupid, but Also Bad Politics

by Elliot Neaman

The Fertilizer Fault Line: The Hidden System That Could Trigger the Next Global Crisis

by Masaaki Yoshimori

After Pope Francis, Pope Leo XIV Combines Continuity With Change

by Anton Schauble

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FO Podcasts: Why Narcoterrorism Still Matters

In this episode of FO Podcasts, Atul Singh and Jeffrey James Higgins examine how narcoterrorism combines organized crime, insurgency and geopolitical conflict. They discuss the rise of synthetic opioids and how cartels in Latin America increasingly resemble paramilitary organizations capable of challenging state authority. Should...

by Jeffrey James Higgins & Atul Singh

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