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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to become secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, shows no signs of backing down. The author, speaker, Fox News television host, and former Army National Guard officer faces serious sexual assault allegations, as well as concerns that he lacks the basic expertise needed to run an organization as enormous as the Pentagon. He […]
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s return to the White House in January holds both promise and peril for Southeast Asia. On the one hand, the incoming administration appears poised to reinvigorate the Indo-Pacific strategy devised during Trump’s first term, which focused on countering China and included the strengthening of alliances and partnerships throughout the region. Several […]
There are few circumstances under which inflation can be comforting. But in the wake of Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the U.S. presidential election, one of them appears to be when it serves as an alibi for an electorate’s sharp turn toward meanness, selfishness, and a hard-edged type of identity-centered nationalism. […]
Democrats are in a state of shock. Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s decisive defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris in the Electoral College and the popular vote has been disillusioning. The fact that Trump has grown his coalition feels like a rebuke of what Democrats have stood for since the 1960s. In the months ahead, […]
With Donald Trump’s election victory this week, it’s clear that the president-elect will not be nearly as supportive of Ukraine’s fight against Russia as the current administration—and may well abandon Ukraine entirely. Such a reality is already resounding in Ukraine, with plenty of hand-wringing in Kyiv about how Trump will pull the United States back […]
Here’s what’s on tap for the day: The world watches anxiously as Americans head to the polls in one of the most consequential presidential elections in memory, Hezbollah has a new boss, and Russia fines Google an astronomical sum over YouTube restrictions. Wars in Ukraine and the Middle East Hang in the Balance We’re just […]
Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at the last major U.S. campaign speeches for Kamala Harris and Donald Trump, deadly flooding in Spain, and Botswana’s general election. Also, check out FP’s 2024 Election Live Blog: a one-stop page to hear from our writers about how the world is watching the U.S. election and […]