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Nigerian internet scams are so prolific that the U.S. Embassy in Abuja has an entire page of its website dedicated to helping people protect themselves from fake Nigerian princes who write sob story emails about how only huge sums of American money will help save their lives. “In many cases, scammers troll the Internet for […]

Dear presidential candidates, senators, and congressional representatives: Get your butts back to Washington immediately. The time you’ve had to get a preparedness plan in order but have wasted twiddling thumbs and shifting around budgets to make it look like you were taking the threat of Zika seriously is over. So, go behind closed doors to […]

Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov called Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s claim that Crimea wanted to be annexed by Russia in 2014 evidence that he is “a dangerous fringe politician.” Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said it was “a breach of moral and civilized principles.” And Ukrainian ambassador to Washington Valeriy Chaly told Foreign […]Read More

August has begun with two more entries in an ongoing campaign to convince Chinese netizens that Western values are existential threats to their country. In two videos published hours apart on Aug. 1 on Weibo, China’s Twitter equivalent, major government accounts exhorted their followers to keep a wary eye out for the ruinously destabilizing effects of U.S. […]Read More

Turkish political parties disagree on many things when it comes to secularism, the rule of law, freedom of speech, and democratic governance. But when it comes to the failed military coup aimed at overthrowing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Ankara’s leading parties are on the same page in condemning the botched putsch and demanding that the […]

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki­-moon will propose reopening an inquiry into allegations that Dag Hammarskjold, one of the most revered secretaries-general in the organization’s history, was assassinated by an apartheid-era South African paramilitary organization that was backed by the CIA, British intelligence, and a Belgian mining company, according to several officials familiar with the case. The move follows the South […]Read More

In this week’s episode of The E.R., FP’s David Rothkopf, Rosa Brooks, Molly O’Toole, and the New York Times’s chief Washington correspondent, David Sanger, dissect the latest Donald Trump headlines, the Democratic National Committee’s email hack, and deliberate a pressing question: Are the foreign-policy elite doomed? Though the party conventions have concluded, the aftermath of […]Read More