Feature
List of Feature articles
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Local students hold a sign that reads “Save Lamu Women's Movement” in Swahili at a poetry competition in Lamu Town to raise awareness about the effects of coal on the environment on Nov. 29, 2017. When Coal Comes to Paradise
As China pushes clean energy policies at home, it is exporting its high-pollution coal industry to pristine places like Kenya’s Lamu Island—with Nairobi’s seal of approval. Local residents fear it will destroy the environment they depend on.
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Foreign Policy illustration/Madoka Ikegami-Pool/Getty Images/Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Real Origins of the U.S.-China Cold War
The only way to win the next superpower showdown is to understand what exactly caused it.
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An Atlas 5 rocket carrying the U.S. Navy's second Mobile User Objective System satellite launches at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 19, 2013. The New Space Race
The latest front in a return to Cold War rivalry is the effort to build an all-American rocket for military launches.
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1-china-war-us-military-strategy-brian-stauffer-elbridge-colby How to Win America’s Next War
The United States faces great-power enemies. It needs a military focused on fighting them.
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1st Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment, deployed on Operation Nanook-Nunalivut Vanguards of the Thawing Arctic
After two decades of war in the desert, Canadian troops must relearn how to operate in the frozen north.
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1-lead-industrial-espionage-timeline-vallerio-pellegrini The Oldest Game
The very long history of industrial espionage.
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Illustration by Delcan & Company for Foreign Policy The Spycraft Revolution
Changes in technology, politics, and business are all transforming espionage. Intelligence agencies must adapt—or risk irrelevance.
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Eiko Ojala illustration for Foreign Policy The Spies Who Came In From the Continent
How Brexit could spell the end of Britain’s famed advantage in intelligence.
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Eiko Ojala illustration for Foreign Policy The Manufacturer’s Dilemma
To secure itself, the West needs to figure out where all its gadgets are coming from. Here’s why that’s so difficult.
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1_Mueller_graphic_final All the Legal Trouble in Trumpworld
Robert Mueller has finished his investigation, but that may be the least of the U.S. president’s worries.
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statedinner_homepagegrid All the Presidents’ Meals
America’s laden tables used to wow queens and premiers. But is state dinner diplomacy as outdated as lobster aspic?
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A female mechanized infantry recruit guides her crew as they learn how to repair broken vehicle tracks in Boden, Sweden, on Sept. 12, 2018. (Teresa Fazio for Foreign Policy) Stand at Attention and Bite the Bullet
The Swedish military had a #MeToo problem. They decided to do something about it.
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What’s Next for Venezuela?
Opposition leader Juan Guaidó has declared himself president. But even if he succeeds in restoring democracy, the hard part is just beginning.
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Social_WarringStates-2000px The War-Torn Web
A once-unified online world has broken into new warring states.
