Editors Picks: Our best weekend reads

[Read this email in your browser]( October 25, 2019 [Sponsor Logo]( SPONSORED BY AND NOW THE HARD PART 1 [Outfoxed and Outgunned.]( U.S. President Donald Trump reduces the United States’ role in international institutions, China is increasingly filling the void. Its victory in the recent election for head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization is part of this trend, FP’s Colum Lynch and Robbie Gramer [report](. 2 [Iran is losing ground.]( is skilled at using Shiite Islamist insurgent groups to establish footholds across the Middle East, but the protests that erupted in Lebanon and Iraq this week show that it is still incapable of ruling effectively, Hanin Ghaddar [writes](. 3 [Why Chileans are still protesting.]( Chile, a student protest over subway fares ballooned into mass demonstrations against economic inequality. President Sebastián Piñera promised significant reforms, but it did little to quell public disorder, FP’s Elizabeth Miles and Robbie Gramer [write](. 4 [Bernier burned.]( right-wing populist Maxime Bernier threatened to shake up Canadian politics after this week’s federal election. But Bernier lost his seat and his party flopped, largely because Canada combines free market competition with a robust social welfare system to produce equal opportunity and tangible rewards for all, Eric Protzer and Paul Summerville [write](. 5 [Europe on the cusp.]( European refugee crisis emanating from the Middle East looms, but overpopulated and ill-equipped refugee camps in Greece suggest that Europe is grossly underprepared, Yiannis Baboulias [writes](. SPONSORED [This Week on And Now the Hard Part: The Venezuela Problem]( This Week on And Now the Hard Part: The Venezuela Problem Venezuela’s humanitarian emergency is a “man-made crisis ... manufactured by those in power for the past 20 years,” said Dany Bahar, an economist and a Brookings fellow. How did the once wealthy and democratic country end up in such a dire economic, political, and humanitarian situation? What can be done to solve it? Tune in to the latest episode of [And Now the Hard Part]( a podcast by Foreign Policy and the Brookings Institution. FOLLOW FP ON This email was sent to {EMAIL} because you are subscribed to FP’s Editors' Picks newsletter. Want a friend to receive this newsletter? [Forward it]( now. Want to receive other FP newsletters? [Manage]( your FP newsletter preferences. [unsubscribe]( | [privacy policy]( | [contact us]( | [advertise]( Foreign Policy magazine is a division of Graham Holdings Company. All contents © 2019 The Slate Group, LLC. All rights reserved. Foreign Policy, 1750 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20006.