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Rwandan Ghosts

Benghazi isn't the biggest blight on Susan Rice's record.

BY JASON K. STEARNS | NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The Self-Driving Economy

Will we even need central bankers in a few more years?

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Armageddon on a Budget

Don't worry, we can still nuke Russia even if we go over the fiscal cliff.

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | NOVEMBER 29, 2012

State of Confusion

Why Mahmoud Abbas’s U.N. statehood bid is great for Israel -- and the United States.

BY EPHRAIM SNEH | NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Twice As Rice

Who said it: Condoleezza or Susan?

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

It's His Prerogative

Let Obama pick his secretary of state. Even if it's Susan Rice. 

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Four More Years … in Exile

Can Republicans find their way out of the foreign-policy wilderness?

BY JOHN NORRIS | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Pork Will Find a Way

How Congress can fund its pet projects -- even without earmarks.

BY LAURA PETERSON | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Can You Save Diplomacy From Itself?

Carne Ross's quixotic crusade to help emerging nations get their seat at the table.

BY CRISTINA ODONE | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The Global Thinkers' Book Club

From psychology to biography, economics to tech, see what some of the world’s top minds are reading.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The FP Survey: The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd

FP's Global Thinkers weigh in on the year gone by and what's on the horizon for 2013.

DECEMBER 2012

The 'Grexits' of 2013

The four geopolitical buzzwords that could be just around the corner.

BY IAN BREMMER | DECEMBER 2012

Yes, Congress Is That Bad

America's unprecedented political paralysis is undermining the country at home and abroad.

BY THOMAS MANN, NORMAN ORNSTEIN | DECEMBER 2012

Homeland Insecurity

The new Red Dawn movie is really just a throwback to the ‘80s ... the 1880s.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Thanksgiving is Un-American

Seriously. What you need to know about the international origins of the most American of holidays.

BY FRANK JACOBS | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

King David

Why generals shouldn't run the CIA.

BY AMY B. ZEGART | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

American Anxiety

The numbers say the stumbling U.S. economy is picking up steam. But there’s good reason to worry.

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Rockets' Red Glare

No, Iron Dome does not prove that "Star Wars" was right.

BY YOUSAF BUTT | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Everything You Need to Know About Susan Rice

The lowdown on America's maybe-next secretary of state.

BY COLUM LYNCH | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The $68 Billion Question

Sen. Coburn’s plan to save the Pentagon.

BY GORDON ADAMS | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Hell Week

What Pentagon insiders think about the Petraeus scandal.

BY GORDON LUBOLD, KEVIN BARON, JOHN REED | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Squeal Team Six

Why punish seven SEALs for the Pentagon's love affair with Hollywood?

BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Throwing Rice

Barack Obama was right to defend Susan Rice from the GOP attacks. She's got the chops to be secretary of state.

BY SEAN KAY | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The Peace Process Isn't Dead

The brewing war in Gaza shows why the United States must make a renewed effort to bring Israelis and Palestinians together.

BY DANIEL KURTZER | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

Defender of the Flame

Not only does the United States deserve a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council, it’s leading the charge.

BY EILEEN DONAHOE | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The World Is Not Enough

Why does the planet's No. 1 spy never go to the really dangerous places?

BY FRANK JACOBS | NOVEMBER 15, 2012

What Makes a Great General?

FP contributors on Tom Ricks' new book.

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

The Kissinger Transcripts

Why the former secretary of state thought the CIA was blackmailing him.

BY TOM BLANTON | NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Sex and the Modern Soldier

Just how bad is the military's woman problem?

BY ROSA BROOKS | NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Is Bashar al-Assad Syria’s Abraham Lincoln?

The Syrian president's fans are comparing him with the hero of America's Civil War. Here's why they're wrong.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | NOVEMBER 14, 2012