Foreign Policy

US targets more Venezuelan tankers as Russia advances and Thailand dissolves Parliament. Here’s your Friday morning brief, December 12, 2025.

Flooding hits Washington as US–Venezuela tensions rise and NATO sounds warnings. Here’s what’s making headlines this Thursday evening.

America’s undeclared war on drugs has killed more of our people than any foreign enemy since World War II, yet it remains a conflict fought in legal and political shadows where no one has to admit we are at war or explain how it ends.

If the fall of Maduro means one less outpost for Moscow in our hemisphere, I will not pretend to be conflicted about it, because I have seen what his patrons do to men whose only crime was fighting back.

A Charlotte train stabbing suspect is held without bond, a developer sues after Apple pulled an ICE-tracking app, and Congress advances a $901B defense bill restoring Ukraine aid. Here’s what’s making headlines this Monday evening.

The Trump administration’s self-branded hard-nosed realism is in practice performative isolationism that abandons allies, emboldens authoritarians, and trades American leadership for short-term political theatrics.

Pearl Harbor milestone, Miami cocaine bust, Thailand-Cambodia border clashes dominate. Here’s your Monday morning brief, December 8, 2025.

Ukraine is plugging more women into the drone fight on the front line, while back home Pete Hegseth is pushing U.S. industry to crank out weapons faster for the next war, and Poland is set to grab about 250 U.S. Strykers for a buck each to beef up NATO’s eastern flank.

Army overhauls command structure as global tensions flare from Europe to South Asia. Here’s what’s making headlines this Friday evening.

Out in the world’s forgotten corners, America’s outposts still bet their lives on walls too thin, warnings too late, and the dangerous illusion that lightning never strikes the same place twice.

Pentagon scrutiny rises as global tensions flare from Darfur to China and the Koreas. Here’s your Wednesday Morning Brief, December 3, 2025.

Tonight’s brief tracks mounting scrutiny over a controversial US strike in the Caribbean, fresh political and security moves from Washington to the Gulf, and escalating flashpoints from Ukraine to Gaza and Afghanistan.