Franklin Foer

The prime minister, a self-styled expert on the U.S., has shattered his country’s standing. By Franklin Foer Mark Peterson / Redux for The Atlantic July 27, 2026, 7 AM ET Share Save In 1982, Benjamin Netanyahu was the marketing director of a Jerusalem-bas... See more

Xi Jinping merely humored Trump, waiting for his time—and America’s—to pass. By Franklin Foer Alex Wong / Getty May 16, 2026, 6 AM ET Share Save Spare a moment, please, for the lame-duck superpower. It calls itself the leader of the free world, but the fr... See more

This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. T he purge began late Friday night, four days after Donald Trump returned to the White House. Seventeen inspectors general—internal watchdogs embedded throughout the... See more

J. D. Vance Fails a Simple Moral Test ​ Summary “J.D. Vance failed to denounce anti-Semitic commentators like Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson at the Turning Point USA conference. By not addressing their harmful rhetoric, Vance has effectively welcomed an... See more

During his early reign, Podhoretz was a patron of the intellectual left. Probably no other American magazine, beyond those targeted toward a Black readership, was as full-throated in its support for the civil-rights movement. (Podhoretz’s characteristical... See more