Review
List of Review articles
![Right extremists attend a neo-Nazi rally on June 17, 2012 in Dresden, eastern Germany, where commemorations were held to remember the uprising in 1953 in the former east German Democratic Republic.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-146467051.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
What Really Went Wrong in Eastern Germany
Both sides of formerly divided Germany share blame for the region’s turn to the far right.
![Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un toast during a state visit in Pyongyang on June 19, in a photo distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1-putin-north-korea-GettyImages-2157787216_b5e595.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Anti-Authoritarian Handbook
Today’s autocrats have formed a global network. Those fighting them will have to do the same.
![Basketball players Larry Bird, Scottie Pippen, Michael Jordan, Clyde Drexler, and Karl Malone stand in a line wearing matching U.S. flag sweatshirts and Olympic gold medals. Jordan is in the center, raising his hand and making the peace or victory sign.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1-basketball-GettyImages-143331932.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
America Is No Longer Basketball’s Sole Superpower
Ever since the Dream Team’s unbeaten 1992 Olympic run, U.S. hegemony in men’s basketball has been under threat from European teams.
![A spinning color wheel is superimposed over the keyboard and screen of a supercomputer.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/singularity-ai-supercomputer-GettyImages-685185675.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The 1960s Novella That Got AI (Mostly) Right
An Italian sci-fi book buzzes with many issues that society still grapples with today.
![A photos illustration of athlete Zdenek Koubek superimposed on an intersex pride flag among the olympic rings.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/1-Olympics-LGBTQ-other-olympians-review-Zdenek-Koubek.png?w=800?quality=90)
How Olympic Officials First Drew Gender Lines
Athletes’ complex identities were simplified by reactionary politics.
![Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is seen from behind as he salutes with his right arm, wearing a turban and tunic vest over a white long-sleeved shirt.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/modi-long-game-india-democracy-1-GettyImages-1242514230.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Modi’s Long Game
New restraints on the prime minister’s mandate can’t undo his transformation of India.
![An illustration shows a series of film stills inside the Olympics rings.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/olympics-films-illustration-foreign-policy.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Streaming Films to Cure Your Olympic Fever
From awe-inspiring documentaries to a figure skating melodrama.
![Tom Hulce as Mozart performing in front of a large crowd in a screen grab from a film.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/1-amadeus-film-milos-forman-re-release-iV69FowcM3aO0JWAmd6owwSMU0Z.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
‘Amadeus,’ Back in Theaters, Is a Perfect Film
Poignant, entertaining, and bitchy, who cares that its central conflict is almost entirely made up?
![A grid of 12 book covers.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Foreign-policy-summer-book-recommendation-3-2.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Foreign Policy’s Summer Reading List
Our columnists and reporters’ top picks, from a history of China’s tattooed soldiers to an ambitious modern epic.
![Dark clouds hang over the silhouetted skylnie of London.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/caledonian-road-review-london-GettyImages-1157696530-e1720204653385.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
In ‘Caledonian Road,’ the U.K. Is Living on Thin Ice
A sweeping state-of-the-nation novel fails to convince the reader.
![A samurai in a helmet yells with his mouth open and eyes wild.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/seven-samurai-film-RYYMC8.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
At 70, ‘Seven Samurai’ Is Still Sharp After All These Years
How the newly remastered classic influenced films from “The Magnificent Seven” to “A Bug’s Life.”
![Marchers, most of them women in heels, dresses, coats, and hats carry signs for the communist part as they walk down a street in New York.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/us-communist-party-GettyImages-514897020.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The Contradictions of America’s Communist Party
Its members were the country’s original illiberal democrats—before imploding into irrelevance.
![Donald Sutherland and Jane Fonda speak or sing into a microphone on a stage in front of the U.S. flag, held by two smiling women.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Donald-Sutherland-FTA-Vietnam-activism-Jane-Fonda-AP7101010531.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Donald Sutherland and the Soldiers Who Resisted Vietnam
The chameleonic actor was also an activist ahead of his time.
![A photo illustration shows the Qing-era Summer Palace in Beijing behind an image of Chinese President Xi Jinping walking.](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/1-china-qing-empire-xi-jinping-illustration.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
Revisiting Chinese Empire
A new book explores parallel lives spent on its periphery.
![Juergen-habermas-riccardo-vecchio-illustration-3-2](https://foreignpolicy.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Juergen-habermas-riccardo-vecchio-illustration-3-2.jpg?w=800?quality=90)
The World Still Needs Habermas
The German philosopher is starting to outlive his liberal legacy.