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![U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris holds an umbrella in one hand and waves with the other as she boards Air Force Two beneath a cloudy gray sky.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/KAMALAHARRIS-PRESIDENT-TEAM-GettyImages-2162442291.png?w=800?quality=90)
How Harris Found Her Foreign-Policy Footing
A good vice president has to be the ultimate staffer.
![An illustration shows President Biden facing toward a spinning blurry globe](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/biden-foreign-policy-nicolas-ortega-FF_3-2.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Biden’s Legacy Depends on What Happens Next
The U.S. president leaves behind an enviable list of accomplishments after one term. But Trump could destroy a lot of it.
![U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a conversation with Steve Harvey about the economy at the 100 Black Men of America, Inc., 38th Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-2156933034.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
How a Harris Administration Would Steer the Economy
The vice president’s influences stretch from Howard University to Silicon Valley.
![A tight image of Joe Biden from the nose down shows him wearing a tie with Democratic Party donkeys.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/biden-dems-future-election-2024-GettyImages-2154633932.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Biden Is Passing the Torch
Democrats can make this a decisive moment in their own trajectory and that of U.S. democracy.
Asia & the Pacific
![Fourier's GR-1 humanoid robots are displayed during the World Artificial Intelligence Conference in Shanghai.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/CHINA-AI-PLA-MILITARY-GettyImages-2159884853.png?w=800?quality=90)
Into the Minds of China’s Military AI Experts
China
![A building with the words "Chinese Imperial post Office" on it. Atop the image is a red stamp with Chinese characters and the words "Chinese Imperial Post One Dollar" in English.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Chinese-post-office-lead.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Hidden History of China’s Post Office
Middle East & Africa
![A woman casts her ballot during the 2024 Rwandan general elections at a polling station in Kigali, on July 15.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/rwanda-election-GettyImages-2161542493.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Paul Kagame Isn’t Going Anywhere
Europe
![Tusk, Macron, and Scholz meet in Berlin](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/tusk-macron-scholz-weimar-GettyImages-2086258104-e1721380765365.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Who Will Fill Europe’s Leadership Vacuum?
Americas
![A person with a small dog stands in front of a blue pond, with snow-topped mountains and a bright blue sky in the background. The person is on a gravel surface surrounded by white fences, with light brown shrubs all around the area.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1-GettyImages-2042744043.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Hidden Trade-Offs of Climate Policy
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Europe Alone
Nine thinkers on the continent’s future without America’s embrace.
How Europe Could Fracture if Trump Returns
Without Washington’s embrace, the continent could revert to an anarchic and illiberal past.
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How Platon Photographs Power
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Don’t Bet Against the Dollar
U.S. competitors are pushing the limits of autonomy within a dollar-based system, but there isn’t a real global alternative—and the world is far from an inflection point.
![A photo illustration shows Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden posing on pedestals atop the bipolar world order, with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and Russian President Vladamir Putin standing below on a gridded floor.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/No-Multipolar-world-China-US-illustration-1.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
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How the West Misunderstood Moscow in Ukraine
Ten years ago, Russia’s first invasion failed to wake up a bamboozled West. The reasons are still relevant today.
![Chinese soldiers in Belarus for military training.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/china-belarus-training-NATO.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Asian Powers Set Their Strategic Sights on Europe
After 500 years, the tables have turned, with an incoherent Europe the object of rising Asia’s geopolitical ambitions.
![Malaysian King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah observes track laying of the East Coast Rail Link in Kuantan, Malaysia on Dec. 11, 2023.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/China-US-emerging-economies-malaysia-growth-GettyImages-1841321645.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
The Winners From U.S.-China Decoupling
From Malaysia to Mexico, some countries are gearing up to benefit from economic fragmentation.
![Fighters from a coalition of Islamist forces stand on a huge portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on March 29, 2015, in the Syrian city of Idlib.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/GettyImages-468025944.jpg?w=800?quality=80)
Another Uprising Has Started in Syria
Years after the country’s civil war supposedly ended, Assad’s control is again coming apart.
Weekend Reads
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America’s Democracy Was Never That Healthy
Since its founding, the country has been in a perpetual state of division.
![The wind blows a plastic bag past the National Stadium, also known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing on Jan. 23, 2008.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Olympics-environment-pollution-GettyImages-79171292.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Olympics Have a Dirty History—Literally
But a green sports movement is pushing for change, eager to see if Paris will be different.
Visual Stories
![A Ukrainian border guard in a camouflaged uniform faces a yellow and white Ukrzaliznytsia diesel train and a red Polish SKPL transport company train on two sets of railroad tracks in Rava-Ruska, Ukraine.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/ukraine-railways-europe-GettyImages-1730213664.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Ukraine Lays Its Tracks to Europe
By expanding its railways, Kyiv hopes to tie its fate to the rest of the continent.
![A banner depicting the late President Ebrahim Raisi hangs above a gathering of women at the Shah Abdol-Azim shrine in Rey, a conservative southern suburb of Tehran, during the funeral of Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Iran-Raisi-death-FP_Tehran_SGlinski6.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Mood From Tehran
As Iran gears up for elections to replace Raisi, the country is divided.