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    The End of the World

    While the apocalypse is pretty unlikely to come in 2012, it does have to happen sooner or later. Joshua Keating runs down 5 possible ways the world might actually end.

  • DISPATCH

    He's Got the Law (Literally) in His Hands

    Neither the courts, nor the lawyers, nor even the Liberian parliament have a physical copy of the country's legal code. Jina Moore and Glenna Gordon tell the incredible tale of how one man is claiming a copyright on the books -- and he's holding them hostage until he gets paid.

  • FEATURE

    Shah Who?

    The Obama administration just named a virtual unknown to head the U.S. Agency for International Development. Annie Lowrey asks: Why -- and what does it mean?

  • ARGUMENT

    The Big Freak Out

    Clay Risen explains how the nation's best economist became a global warming denier as he digs into the downfall of the brains behind the Freakonomics phenomenon.

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  • Europe to Europe: WTF?

    ANNIE LOWREY

    How Europeans are responding to their comically obscure new EU overlords.

    11/20/2009

  • Obama, the Great Wall, and Nixon’s Ghost

    WILLIAM MOSS

    Not since Tricky Dick's historic 1972 trip to China has any U.S. president's visit been truly groundbreaking -- but both the U.S. and Chinese media strove to add drama to Obama's recent Beijing foray, in radically different ways.

    11/20/2009

  • Boring Summits Are Better for Everyone

    JOHN LEE

    Why Barack Obama and Manmohan Singh should say as little as possible when they meet in Washington next week.

    11/20/2009

  • Reality Check: The Hajj

    CHRISTIAN CARYL

    It's the greatest yearly pilgrimage on Earth. But these days, the annual trek to Saudi Arabia's holy sites is as much about politics as it is religion.

    11/20/2009

  • This Week at War: Heading for a Bad Breakup

    ROBERT HADDICK

    What the four-stars are reading -- a weekly column from Small Wars Journal.

    11/20/2009

  • The Al Qaeda Diaries

    IMTIAZ GUL

    As the Pakistani soldiers moved into South Waziristan, they found something almost as valuable as al Qaeda itself: the diaries and books that explain how militant ideology binds the diffuse world of terrorism together.

    11/20/2009

  • 5 Things to Be Thankful For This Year

    JOSHUA KEATING

    Whether it's the chaos in Kabul or the malaise in Brussels, today's headlines are often downright depressing. But it's not all doom and gloom in the world. Here are a few of the best reasons we should all give thanks.

    11/20/2009

  • Lowering the Bar

    C. BATKIN

    The American Bar Association's new president has ties to some of the world's most repressive leaders.

    11/19/2009

  • Zardari in the Crosshairs

    ARIF RAFIQ

    Pakistan's leader is losing grip on his presidency and the opposition parties are waiting in the wings. As his popularity plummets, his political fate -- as well as that of the Pakistan Peoples Party and the nation -- hang in the balance. 

    11/19/2009

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