America Is Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Atomic Age; How Shock Therapy Threatens the Post-Assad Peace; A Confident Beijing and a Pragmatic Washington Can Get Along
Foreign Affairs Today

September 22, 2026 | View in Browser

Sponsored by Bloomsbury Academic

 
Employees working at a data training center, Beijing, September 2026

The Trouble With the Nuclear-AI Analogy

America Is Learning the Wrong Lessons From the Atomic Age

By Christopher LaRoche and Ankit Panda

 

A Foreign Affairs subscription is less than $3.50/month.

Subscribe Now →

A Foreign Affairs subscription is less than $3.50/month.

Subscribe Now →
 
Protesting rising fuel prices near Aleppo, Syria, September 2026

Syria’s Imperiled Transition

How Shock Therapy Threatens the Post-Assad Peace

By Sam Heller

 
Chinese leader Xi Jinping and U.S. President Donald Trump in Beijing, May 2026 

The Emerging U.S.-China Détente

A Confident Beijing and a Pragmatic Washington Can Get Along

By Da Wei

 

Advertisement: Bloomsbury Academic

Claiming the Cosmos: Who Owns the Final Frontier?

 

In the new Space Race, who gets to claim victory over the cosmos? It’s time to tackle the legal, policy, and regulatory questions surrounding exploration, commercial space ventures, tourism, mining, and settlements.

Pre-order Now
Cover Image of “Claiming the Cosmos”

Claiming the Cosmos: Who Owns the Final Frontier?

Cover Image of “Claiming the Cosmos”
Pre-order Now

In the new Space Race, who gets to claim victory over the cosmos? It’s time to tackle the legal, policy, and regulatory questions surrounding exploration, commercial space ventures, tourism, mining, and settlements.

 
At the FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., November 2013

How al-Qaeda Ended

Terrorists Sometimes Defeat Themselves

By Audrey Kurth Cronin

Enjoying FA Today or have feedback for us? Write to us at today@foreignaffairs.com. 

 
Download the Foreign Affairs app today. Read or listen wherever you are.
Download the Foreign Affairs app today. Read or listen wherever you are.
TwitterInstagram