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A lot has happened in the nation of Cormyr in the Forgotten Realms but there has been nothing written about what is happening in Cormyr because of these events. The nation has lost its king and a princess. The new king is an infant. The royal wizard left and was replaced by a less experienced one. The city of Tilverton is covered in darkness presumed to be destroyed. The city of Arabel was occupied by monsters for a time. These monsters are now roaming the land. The town of Redspring was in the path of the goblin army but nothing is mentioned about what happened to it. Eveningstar was attacked. Many, many ranking knights, nobles, and wizards were killed in battle.
So, how are the nobles recovering?
What nobles are left?
Were any war heroes elivated to nobility?
How entrenched are the monsters roaming the land?
How occupied is the King's Forest?
What are Cormyr's enemies doing in its time of weakness?
The newly released adventure set in Cormyr addresses nothing about the nation's problems. How about an article that can coincide with the adventure to help a DM make a better Cormyr campaign.
That would be an awesome article. I may be one of the rare DMs who loves a good metaplot. I like to use them as timelines to give the land my adventurers live in a sense of evolution as things happen outside of their adventures.
Elminster's Daughter addresses a bit about what is going on in Cormyr after Nalavara's War, especially as pertains to a certain former Head of the College of War Wizards.
I seem to remember an article way back in Dragon Annual 5 that covered the basics of this - who was left, who was in each faction, the regency, and attitudes between Cormyr and its neighbours.
I don't know of anything more recent, though.
Back in my day, "What's going on with Cormyr in 3E?" is something the FR team wanted to address with a nice regional sourcebook, but we had to get some FR-core things out of the way (like Magic of Faerun, defining all these classic FR magics for the new rules) and we were expecting the new FR novels would help explain some of it. Apparently the novels didn't, and other stuff became a priority for the FR team, and around that time I got laid off and moved to CA so I don't know what the overall goal of the FR line is right now, though I've suspected "the next book will me Cormyr" is a common mantra there, it's only one of the most popular gaming areas in FR....