Foreign Policy media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Foreign Policy in the centre. We have seen it on 11 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Foreign Policy biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Foreign Policy in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Foreign Policy left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Foreign Policy in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Foreign Policy reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Foreign Policy are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Foreign Policy has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Foreign Policy’s own report linked underneath.
The U.S. Federal Reserve has raised its key interest rate by 25 basis points, marking the first such increase in over three years. The unanimous decision aims to combat inflation, and was followed by a significant drop in gold prices.
Foreign Policy reported it asThe Fed Bucks Trump and Raises Interest Rates (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an exhibit of artifacts. The display includes personal items from the day, presented openly due to fragility, as museum leadership navigates political criticism.
Foreign Policy reported it asWhy 9/11 Baffles Us 25 Years Later (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
Argentine President Javier Milei announced sanctions against companies involved in oil projects near the Falkland Islands and the construction of a new naval base in Tierra del Fuego. The moves come amid renewed tensions over the islands' sovereignty, fueled by remarks from former U.S. President Donald Trump.
Foreign Policy reported it asMilei Renews Argentina’s Falklands Push (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States starting September 8, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced. The decision follows the collapse of trade talks, which British Columbia Premier David Eby described as revealing the "true nature" of American objectives.
Foreign Policy reported it asThe U.S.-Canada Trade War Is Full Steam Ahead (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
U.S. President Donald Trump's threat to impose a 50 per cent tariff on $28 billion of Canadian goods is scheduled to take effect just after midnight. The tariffs will be enacted unless officials finalize a trade agreement.
Foreign Policy reported it asThe Clock Is Ticking Down on Another U.S.-Canada Trade War (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
The United Arab Emirates announced a full suspension of trade, commercial exchanges and financial transactions with Iran on 18 August 2026, citing regional escalation after Iranian ballistic missiles were detected targeting maritime navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran has not claimed responsibility for the attacks on UAE state-owned ADNOC vessels.
Foreign Policy reported it asUAE Joins Global Efforts to Isolate Iran (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
President Donald Trump stated on social media that preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon is the administration’s number one goal, directly contradicting Vice President JD Vance, who had said the top priority was keeping oil and gas prices low for Americans. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said both goals are equally important.
Foreign Policy reported it asVance Pitches a New Objective for the Iran War (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
The US has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on drones and components, effective 3 September 2026, to address national security concerns and reduce dependence on Chinese imports. Drones over 25 kilograms or with thermal imaging face the highest duties, while smaller drones are subject to lower tariffs.
Foreign Policy reported it asTrump’s Flurry of National Security Policies (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
Iran has reorganised its military command, appointing hardline leaders to key roles as it adopts a more aggressive posture. The US says it can maintain a blockade on Iranian ports indefinitely, while Houthi drone strikes on Saudi Aramco refineries push oil prices higher. No left-rated outlet covered the story.
Foreign Policy reported it asMojtaba Khamenei Is Planning for a Long War (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
Iran has dismissed reports of ceasefire extension talks with the US, stating the June interim deal never began and thus cannot be extended. A senior Iranian source told Reuters no discussions were held, while Turkey’s Anadolu agency reported a 60-day extension agreement, which both sides later denied.
Foreign Policy reported it asMojtaba Khamenei Is Planning for a Long War (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia fired North Korean ballistic missiles at Zaporizhia on 11 August 2026, killing six civilians and wounding 19. Ukrainian military sources identified the weapons as KN-23 and KN-24 types. The attack damaged civilian infrastructure and coincided with drone strikes across Ukraine.
Foreign Policy reported it asRussia-Ukraine War Escalates With Black Sea Strikes, North Korean Missiles (opens Foreign Policy in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- The Slate GroupIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Official site
- foreignpolicy.com
- Seen publishing on
- foreignpolicy.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 11
- Reports listed
- 11
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
11 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Foreign Policy is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 11 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Foreign Policy: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 5 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Foreign Policy, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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