2023: The Year’s Best Stories

A lot happened in 2023. Test yourself on all of it here.

The U.S. president’s foreign-policy strategy came undone in 2023.

Readers spent time on coverage of Russia’s war in Ukraine in its second year, along with pieces on U.S. foreign policy and the global order.

The Kremlin is hunkering down, but 2023 showed that its rule is less stable than it wants us to think.

The year’s best episodes of the podcast about how economics permeates everything.

From the war in Ukraine to Sudan’s implosion, FP’s reporters were on the case.

As the world threatens to breach a critical global warming threshold, cooperation still seems to fall short.

Amid rising conflict, these people and organizations fought for peace and justice.

The events of Oct. 7 sparked a conflagration in the Middle East that has reverberated around the world.

Examining some of the political figures who changed our world in 2023.

How the sharp slowdown has impacted young people, the military, and more.

From Sudan to Mauritania, regional and global powers are jockeying for position on the continent.

Five big-think articles from 2023 that cut through the news.

Stephen Walt explains why countries are accusing America of hypocrisy.

States are increasingly focused on security and the age-old diplomatic instruments to achieve it.

The legacies of departed leaders from Pervez Musharraf to Henry Kissinger still shape world politics.

This year, state intervention solidified as the world’s new economic orthodoxy—and its weaknesses began to emerge.

Guests on FP Live ranged from Israel’s Ehud Barak to Taiwan’s foreign minister.

Foreign Policy’s best reads on the state of the conflict and the implications going forward.

Foreign Policy’s best deep dives of the year.

Artificial intelligence became more than just a buzzword in 2023.

Our favorite book reviews of 2023.

Washington is losing its rizz and other powers are stepping into the AIS gaps.

From the halls of the United Nations to leaders’ podiums, policymakers fixated on the concept this year.

FP’s five best episodes of 2023.

The podcasts, television, and movies that got us through.