Editors' Picks

  • LIST

    People of the Year

    Marc Lynch lists the who's who of the Middle East in 2009.

  • DISPATCH

    My Trip to a Fake Afghan Village

    Annie Lowrey takes a trip to see how the U.S. military is preparing civilians for a surge of their own.

  • DISPATCH

    The Other Nobel Controversy

    What the recent uproar over the Nobel Committee chairman's lucrative new post says about Norway's peace prize complex.

  • REALITY CHECK

    Paper Tiger

    Russia's corporate giant Gazprom inspires anxiety among those who suspect it of doing the Kremlin's geopolitical dirty work. But changes in the global economy are threatening to rob the company of its mojo.

The Latest from FP

  • Time to Take Away Sudan's Credit Card

    SEAN P. BROOKS

    Sudanese officials are heading to Washington in search of a bailout. But the Obama administration should condition its support on an improvement in the country's dismal human rights record.

    12/21/2009

  • How China Stiffed the World in Copenhagen

    JOHN LEE

    Why Beijing insists, "Don't look at our books!"

    12/21/2009

  • The Mideast Peace Deal You Haven't Heard About

    STEVEN J. ROSEN

    Benjamin Netanyahu is much more serious about Middle East peace than most Americans realize. With U.S. diplomacy on the brink of a surprising success, it's time for the Palestinians to step up.

    12/18/2009

  • Noriega's Revenge

    JORDAN MICHAEL SMITH

    Twenty years after the U.S. invasion of Panama, America's ambassador to the United Nations at the time considers it an important stepping stone to the disastrous 2003 invasion of Iraq.

    12/18/2009

  • My Trip to a Fake Afghan Village

    ANNIE LOWREY

    How the U.S. military is preparing civilians for a surge of their own.

    12/18/2009

  • This Week at War: McChrystal Pulls Out His Old Iraq Playbook

    ROBERT HADDICK

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

    12/18/2009

  • Obama's Copenhagen Speech

    The prepared text of U.S. President Barack Obama's address at the Morning Plenary Session of the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Oslo, Norway.

    12/18/2009

  • Mexico's Abortion War

    ALEXIS OKEOWO

    The culture clashes aren't just in the United States anymore.

    12/17/2009

  • The Other Nobel Controversy

    KJETIL WIEDSWANG

    What the recent uproar over the Nobel Committee chairman's lucrative new post says about Norway's peace prize complex.

    12/17/2009

More from FP: Archive | RSS Feeds