Franklin Foer

Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans—and demolish the liberal order they helped establish.

A new book explores the American right’s tendency to admire and want to emulate foreign dictators.

Donald Trump and his cronies left his first administration with a playbook for self-enrichment in a second term.

After Hamas’s attack, Jon Polin and Rachel Goldberg wait for news of their son.

The Israeli operation faces the same question that ultimately vexed the American project in Iraq: What comes next?

The president believes the best way to shape Israeli strategy is to start with reassurance, and then use the trust he’s built.

The president is committed to supporting the Jewish state, but the conflict threatens his other regional priorities.

Joe Biden was determined to get out of Afghanistan—no matter the cost.

The retiring soccer star on her detractors, the U.S. team’s role in the global game, and taking penalty kicks

Spain won the tournament. The whole women’s game will benefit.

For its electric style and all that its players have overcome to reach the Women’s World Cup, it’s a no-brainer.

The rest of the world has caught up—and that’s a good thing.

New antitrust guidelines revive the old-fashioned idea that American life is about more than just buying lots of cheap stuff.

In her latest novel, Deborah Levy continues a career-long search for the authentic self.

The decision by Elizabeth Gilbert to indefinitely delay the publication of her novel is a wrongheaded attempt to help the Ukrainian cause.

Sigmund Freud once applied his Oedipal theory to the leader of the free world.

Both Trump and Biden have positioned themselves as economic nationalists, self-consciously abandoning the precepts of the old order.

When does the beneficent version of gerontocracy give way to the destructive version of it?

In her new book, Sarah Bakewell champions an intellectual tradition that might be just what we need today—if only we could properly define it.

The gravedigger of Bucha provides evidence of Russian atrocities.

Jeff Zients will make for a very different—and less familiar—chief of staff than his predecessor.

Biden Rest Stops as far as the eye can see

Are the oldsters who refuse to retire hoarding power or just better at wielding it?

As 2022 comes to a close, I feel something unfamiliar, something I can’t entirely trust: optimism.

Like any great artist, the aging soccer phenom showed a youth-obsessed world the potential glory of a late-style triumph.

The journalist died on Friday in Qatar at age 49.

In Saturday’s World Cup–eliminating defeat, the U.S. men’s team revealed its shortcomings against the old-world sophistication of the Netherlands.

This World Cup could pose the gravest threat yet to the Islamic regime.

Sometimes progress is measured in ties.

The secretary of state discusses his lifelong love of soccer and humanitarian concerns about this year’s World Cup.

Staff writers Franklin Foer and Clint Smith talk about which teams they’re rooting for in the 2022 World Cup, and give a lesson about one of the most storied teams in soccer.

The 2022 Qatar World Cup may be the tournament’s most detestable yet. I’ll be watching anyway.

He intuited that voters would rise above their economic self-interest to prevent election deniers from seizing power.

Consolidation in book publishing is a trivial issue compared with the dominance of the Everything Store.

Why a beloved Russian pianist is living in the Bronx with only a Yamaha electric keyboard

Merrick Garland hasn’t tipped his hand, but it’s clear to me that he will bring charges against the former president.

The Ukrainian journalist Sergii Leshchenko has a nose for a story and a knack for being in the right place at the right time. I wanted to see the war through his eyes.

It isn’t pretty.

On the meaning of “We are still here.”

Russian invaders are now treating the entirety of the Ukrainian population as combatants, as dirt to be cleansed.