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Subsidizing Starvation

How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the farm and starving millions of Haitians.

BY MAURA R. O’CONNOR | JANUARY 11, 2013

Where Do Babies Come From?

The geopolitics of adoption after the Kremlin's bizarre ban.

BY FRANK JACOBS | JANUARY 11, 2013

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The best stories from around the world.

BY LAURA CLARK | JANUARY 11, 2013

The Answer Man

A Washington power-read on John Brennan.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 7, 2013

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The best stories from around the world.

BY LAURA CLARK | JANUARY 4, 2013

Eve of Disaster

Why 2013 eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War.

BY CHARLES EMMERSON | JANUARY 4, 2013

The Global Linguistic Revolution

The world's fastest growing language is no language at all.

BY ROBERT MCCRUM | DECEMBER 31, 2012

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BY LAURA CLARK | DECEMBER 21, 2012

America's Next Top Diplomat

What the WikiLeaks cables reveal about John Kerry.

BY J. DANA STUSTER | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Closed Book

Why won't the Obama administration back a treaty to make reading more accessible for the visually impaired?

BY JINA MOORE | DECEMBER 17, 2012

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BY LAURA CLARK | DECEMBER 14, 2012

Insane Clown Posse

Television comedian-cum-populist Beppe Grillo is the hottest thing in Italian politics. But is his new opposition party funny or dangerous?

BY GIANNI RIOTTA | DECEMBER 12, 2012

Assad's War on the Red Crescent

Aid workers are caught in the crossfire of Syria's bloody revolt.

BY DAVID KENNER | DECEMBER 12, 2012

The Land of Topless Minarets and Headless Little Girls

A requiem for Syria.

BY AMAL HANANO | DECEMBER 11, 2012

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DECEMBER 7, 2012

Ultimate Sacrifice

What's the difference between self-immolators and suicide bombers?

BY MICHAEL BIGGS | DECEMBER 3, 2012

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BY LAURA CLARK | NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Launch Your Own Gaza War

Help us field-test 'A Reign of Missiles.'

BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Twice As Rice

Who said it: Condoleezza or Susan?

NOVEMBER 27, 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

What Our Thinkers Think -- and Write

Twenty must-read books written by experts from this year's list.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The 'Grexits' of 2013

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

BY IAN BREMMER | DECEMBER 2012

The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd

We asked the 2012 Global Thinkers to weigh in on the big questions of the year. Here’s what they had to say…

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The Cult of Massoud

How Afghanistan’s Che Guevara still haunts Hamid Karzai.

BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Kim Jong Un's Baby Mama

Ri Sol Ju, North Korea's enigmatic new first lady, is already turning heads and making headlines.

BY MICHAEL MADDEN | NOVEMBER 23, 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

Hell Week

What Pentagon insiders think about the Petraeus scandal.

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

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Egyptian Idol

The Salafi threat to blow up the pyramids is nothing new: Egypt's ambivalence toward its past dates back centuries.

BY IAN STRAUGHN | 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