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Mickey Mouse, Villain
How copyrights for U.S. cartoons are holding the developing world hostage.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH/APRIL 2011
BRICs: A Short History
How did a Wall Street buzzword coined by Goldman Sachs become a powerful new bloc in world affairs?
BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | MARCH/APRIL 2011
Epiphanies from Jim O'Neill
The chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management talks BRICs.
INTERVIEW BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | MARCH/APRIL 2011
Frenemies Forever
How Washington stopped worrying and learned to love Saudi Arabia, again.
BY STEVE LEVINE | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Epiphanies from Tariq Ramadan
The Swiss-born grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood's founder made his career trying to prove that the West and Islam, secularism and belief, can coexist peacefully. With his George W. Bush-era travel ban revoked, Tariq Ramadan has now journeyed back to the United States, where his faith in faith has been put to the test by a painful year for American Muslims.
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Freedom.gov
Why Washington's support for online democracy is the worst thing ever to happen to the Internet.
BY EVGENY MOROZOV | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
New Kids on the Block
Meet the foreign-policy powers for the new GOP congress.
BY JOSH ROGIN | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
The Depression? J'accuse!
Is France to blame for the Great Depression?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
The AK-47 of the Cell-Phone World
Forget iPhones and Droids: The Nokia 1100 is the most important cell phone on the planet.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Weird Science
Most of what we know about how the world thinks comes from research on a handful of American undergrads.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
5 Myths About the Chinese Communist Party
Market-Leninism lives.
BY RICHARD MCGREGOR | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
What Hu Jintao Wants to Know
How the Chinese president views the world.
BY THOMAS FINGAR | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Welcome to Minegolia
How the land of Genghis Khan became a new Gold Rush San Francisco on the steppe.
BY RON GLUCKMAN | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Opening Gambit: Moore's Flaw
Why the tech industry's unbridled optimism won't save the world.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | NOVEMBER 2010
What Shape Is Your Recession?
The alphabet soup of economic misery.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2010
Lie of the Tiger
How the United States really tamed the Japanese economy -- and why China's a much meaner cat.
BY CLYDE V. PRESTOWITZ | NOVEMBER 2010
Epiphanies from Paul Volcker
The legendary central banker speaks with FP about family values, what went wrong with big finance, and why baseball is to blame.
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | NOVEMBER 2010
Reinventing the Wheel
Why no-tech ancient civilizations still can't catch up.
BY WILLIAM EASTERLY | NOVEMBER 2010
The YIMBYS
Five places saying "yes, in my backyard" to the nasty stuff that no one else wants.
BY SYLVIE STEIN | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
Best. Decade. Ever.
The first 10 years of the 21st century were humanity's finest -- even for the world's bottom billion.
BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
Soft Rock Power
Has American cultural dominance met its Waterloo?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
The Truth Is Out There (In a Library)
Forget WikiLeaks or Google. The state secrets that matter are waiting to be found in dusty file cabinets.
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
Blood or Treasure?
For a president, the real cost of war is dollars, not deaths.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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