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Wisdom of the Crowd

What 1.2 billion Indians think about democracy, America, and the world. 

BY RORY MEDCALF | MAY 21, 2013

Burma's Web-Savvy Rebels

How Burmese insurgent groups are using China's version of Twitter to fight their war.

BY PATRICK BOEHLER | MAY 20, 2013

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BY RACHEL WILKINSON | MAY 17, 2013

The Unstoppable Force vs. the Immovable Object

Could the United States really go to war with China?

BY NOAH FELDMAN | MAY 16, 2013

Requiem for a Realist

The legacy of Kenneth Waltz.

MAY 15, 2013

The Call of the Clan

Why ancient kinship and tribal affiliation still matter in a world of global geopolitics.

BY MARK S. WEINER | MAY 15, 2013

From Winterfell to King's Landing

How the cartography of Game of Thrones explains the world.

BY FRANK JACOBS | MAY 10, 2013

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BY MAX LINSKY | MAY 10, 2013

Russia Wasn't Built in a Day

Inside Moscow's ridiculous plan to redevelop a massive Soviet-era exhibition space.

BY PETER SAVODNIK | MAY 9, 2013

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BY RACHEL WILKINSON | MAY 3, 2013

The Angst in Foggy Bottom

Many in the State Department aren’t happy with the president’s policy on Syria. And they’re speaking out.

BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON | APRIL 30, 2013

Minister No

Sergei Lavrov and the blunt logic of Russian power.

BY SUSAN B. GLASSER | MAY/JUNE 2013

The Driver

An exclusive look inside the mysterious death and life of the world's most dangerous terrorist not named Osama bin Laden.

BY MARK PERRY | MAY/JUNE 2013

Xi's War Drums

China's new leader is using the military to consolidate his power. But has he unleashed forces beyond his control?

BY JOHN GARNAUT | MAY/JUNE 2013

Soft (Drink) Power

The head of the world's most global beverage company on climate change, power in the post-crisis era, and how Coke's secret formula stays safe from hackers.

INTERVIEW BY IAN BREMMER | MAY/JUNE 2013

The End of the Gandhis

Can Rahul Gandhi run India? Can anybody?

BY JAMES TRAUB | MAY/JUNE 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | APRIL 26, 2013

The Wanderer

Meet Degi Dudayev. It's not easy being the son of independent Chechnya's dead president.

BY YULIA YUZIK | APRIL 24, 2013

The Big One?

Is China covering up another flu pandemic -- or getting it right this time?

BY LAURIE GARRETT | APRIL 24, 2013

Bashar's War

For the Syrian regime's faithful mouthpieces, victory is always around the corner.

BY SAM HELLER | APRIL 23, 2013

The Roots of Chechen Rage

A brief history of a defiant people.

BY OLIVER BULLOUGH | APRIL 21, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | APRIL 19, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | APRIL 12, 2013

Divorce, Italian Style

How the plan to save Italy by cutting it into pieces was hatched at a small restaurant in Rome. Or so one could imagine…

BY GIANNI RIOTTA | APRIL 12, 2013

36 Hours in Pyongyang

A helpful tourist guide, in case you happen to be in the mood for a lovely spring weekend in the Hermit Kingdom.

BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER | APRIL 12, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | APRIL 5, 2013

Syrian Spillover

An interactive map tracking the internationalization of Syria's civil war.

BY J. DANA STUSTER | APRIL 4, 2013

Detroit’s Quixotic Bid to Host the United Nations

What if the U.N.'s headquarters had been on Lake St. Clair instead of the East River?

BY CHARLENE MIRES | APRIL 2, 2013

Sim Paulo

How I used SimCity to solve the world's worst traffic jam.

BY MIKE ROSE | APRIL 1, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | MARCH 29, 2013