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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
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
Draft Dodgers
The little Gmail trick that David Petraeus and Paula Broadwell used to communicate is actually old spycraft.
BY JEFF STEIN | NOVEMBER 14, 2012
Longform's Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
BY LAURA CLARK | NOVEMBER 2, 2012
Lessons From a Forgotten War
How America’s first foray into the modern Arab world can help solve its current entanglements.
BY ROBERT SATLOFF | NOVEMBER 2, 2012
Coming to America
China wants to buy its way onto your TV screen. Will it work?
BY ALEX PASTERNACK | NOVEMBER 1, 2012
Me and My Censor
A reporter's memoir of what it's like to tell the truth about today's China.
BY EVELINE CHAO | OCTOBER 26, 2012
Longform's Picks of the Week
The best stories from around the world.
BY LAURA CLARK | OCTOBER 26, 2012
The Backfire in Baghdad
How ExxonMobil's God Pod beat Iraq's oil chieftains at their own game.
BY BEN VAN HEUVELEN | OCTOBER 26, 2012
Who Said It: Barack Obama or Mitt Romney?
With Election Day fast approaching, how well do you know the candidates on foreign policy?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING, URI FRIEDMAN | OCTOBER 24, 2012
The Real Takeaways From Monday's Debate
Five experts weigh in on how the candidates measure up.
BY KENNETH LIEBERTHAL, TED PICCONE, BRUCE RIEDEL, JUSTIN VAÏSSE, SUZANNE MALONEY | OCTOBER 23, 2012
What to Look for in Tonight's Foreign Policy Debate
Don't expect much of the 'vision thing.'
BY MARTIN INDYK | OCTOBER 22, 2012
The Glory Days
What it was like to work at Newsweek at its best.
BY JONATHAN ALTER | OCTOBER 19, 2012
Ladyboys in the Gulf
The riches of the United Arab Emirates hold promise for transgender sex workers, but also danger and unspeakable cruelty.
BY SULOME ANDERSON | OCTOBER 19, 2012
The 9 Most Important Lessons From the Cuban Missile Crisis
Announcing the award-winning insights from our nation's closest brush with nuclear war.
OCTOBER 19, 2012
Afghanistan's Gray Future
It's Hamid Karzai's country now, and not everything is black and white.
BY HASEEB HUMAYOON | OCTOBER 18, 2012
VII on FP
OCTOBER 10, 2012
The Battle for Mitt Romney's Soul
Which faction of the Republican Party is winning? We asked three smart conservatives to weigh in.
BY DANIELLE PLETKA, JOSHUA TREVIÑO, JUSTIN LOGAN | OCTOBER 9, 2012
Senate Report Says National Intelligence Fusion Centers Have Been Useless
Huge sums spent to watch flat-screen televisions and report on suspicious bass fishing in Mexico.
BY R. JEFFREY SMITH AT THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY | OCTOBER 3, 2012
U.S. admits droning four Americans (but just one deliberately)
BY J. DANA STUSTER
Just how many Hezbollah soldiers have died in Syria?
BY PHILLIP SMYTH
What we know so far about the brutal attack in London
BY ELIAS GROLL
Charts: What inequality looks like around the world
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
What is the U.S. really doing in Syria?
The newspaper article that has shaken Ugandan politics to its core
BY JACKEE BATANDA
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