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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

Longform’s Picks of the Week

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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

Longform’s Picks of the Week

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BY LAURA CLARK | APRIL 19, 2013

Longform’s Picks of the Week

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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

Longform’s Picks of the Week

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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

Gay in the USSR

The forgotten history of gay cruising in Moscow.  

BY NORA FITZGERALD | MARCH 26, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | MARCH 22, 2013

The Jihadist from Phoenix

Eric Harroun claims to have joined up with an al Qaeda-linked group fighting in Syria’s brutal civil war. We tracked him down, but getting the truth was more difficult.

BY GREG TEPPER, ILAN BEN ZION | MARCH 22, 2013

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BY LAURA CLARK | MARCH 15, 2013

Order's Out

Tim McLaughlin writes to Victoria's Secret and readies for battle in Kuwait.

MARCH 14, 2013

Rolling Into Baghdad

Tim McLaughlin recalls the taking of the Diyala bridge and the toppling of Saddam's statue in Firdos Square.

MARCH 14, 2013

Living with PTSD

Tim McLaughlin discusses the Iraq war's personal toll, 10 years after the taking of Baghdad.

MARCH 14, 2013

‘Good Kills’

The bloody battle for the Diyala bridge.

BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 14, 2013