In Box

A Return to Yeomanry

Break out your mulching fork: Jeffersonian farmers are back!

BY PHILLIP LONGMAN | JULY/AUG 2009

World Wall Streets

The Great Recession has shattered New York City’s financial district, which is projected to lose 46,000 jobs and up to $70 billion by 2010. But how have the world’s other Wall Streets fared?

BY ANNIE LOWREY | JULY/AUG 2009

The FP Quiz

From healing the sick to infecting the healthy to fomenting conflict, there doesn't seem to be much that water can't do. Test your knowledge with eight questions on humanity's favorite liquid.

JULY/AUG 2009

In Praise of Rejects

Today's failed study could lead to tomorrow's smart policy—if we let it.

BY DAVID LEHRER | JULY/AUG 2009

Barack von Metternich

Obama's foreign policy makes him the surprising heir to a certain Austrian prince.

BY GUSTAVO DE LAS CASAS | JULY/AUG 2009

Tale of Two War Zones

As global attention shifts from Iraq to Afghanistan, from Bush's war to Obama's war, Foreign Policy reconsiders the inevitable—but deeply flawed—comparisons between these two misunderstood countries. We consulted with war correspondents, do-gooders, and public officials who told us to forget the surface similarities in the daily blood-and-guts news. Iraq and Afghanistan may have roughly the same population, but, from the price of a kabob to the explosives that will blow your legs off, they couldn't be more different: a warning to those who would seek to import Big Ideas from one war zone to the other.

BY ANNIE LOWREY | JULY/AUG 2009

The African Wave

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JULY/AUG 2009

Nowhere Man

Why Ban Ki-moon is the world's most dangerous Korean.

BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | JULY/AUG 2009

Benoit Mandelbrot

With the financial crisis sparking renewed interest in his ideas, the godfather of chaos theory looks back on a life of turbulence.

INTERVIEW BY JOSHUA KEATING | JULY/AUG 2009

The FP Quiz

Are you a globalization junkie? Test your knowledge of global trends, economics, and politics with 8 questions about how the world works.

MAY 1, 2009

Anthropology of an Idea: 'Behavioral Economics'

Calculating the cost of human foibles.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MAY 1, 2009

The Ottoman Revival

Turkish nationalism goes back to the future.

BY YIGAL SCHLEIFER | APRIL 15, 2009

The Fatalist

The man reshaping how U.S. intelligence views the future.

BY LAURA ROZEN | APRIL 15, 2009

The Ties That Don’t Bind

In tough times, how many friends do you really have?

BY CHRISTINA LARSON | APRIL 15, 2009

The Longest Shadow

Those regions in Africa hardest hit by the slave trade exhibit the least trust among family members and neighbors today.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | APRIL 15, 2009

The New Coups

Violent government takeovers now happen far less frequently -- and their strongmen fall much faster.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | APRIL 15, 2009

Epiphanies: Amartya Sen

The Nobel Prize-winning economist reflects on misguided policies, social disasters -- and whether he had it too easy.

APRIL 15, 2009

The List: Faulty Towers

With financing slowing to a trickle, the world's most hyped architectural projects remain castles in the sky.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | APRIL 15, 2009

Dangerous Leviathans

The 21st century must be -- if we are to survive it -- an age that all nations, including Russia, understand as ill-suited to Hobbesian philosophy.

BY STROBE TALBOTT | APRIL 15, 2009

Epiphanies: Shirin Ebadi

"Thirty years have passed and we have yet to arrive at freedom."

MARCH 1, 2009

Who’s More Obama than Obama?

Politicians around the world would love a piece of Barack Obama's popularity. So, a few are campaigning on their proximity to the U.S. president -- both real and imagined.

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

The Difference Is in the Details

According new research by a top economist at the World Bank, how we measure inequality is all wrong.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Attack of the Digg Clones

How the Internet's most powerful click factory went global.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | FEBRUARY 10, 2009

A Melting Pot It’s Not

How the Internet is giving nationalism a boost.

BY EVGENY MOROZOV | FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Answering the Call

How Colombian land-mine victims became call-center operators.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Double Booked

The number of countries allowing dual citizenship is on the rise.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | FEBRUARY 10, 2009

Expert Sitings: Barry Ritholtz

Barry Ritholtz is CEO and director of equity research at Fusion IQ, an online quantitative research firm. He blogs at ritholtz.com, a top-ranked financial Web site, and is a frequent television commentator.

JANUARY 5, 2009

Picture (Im)perfect

A picture may be worth a thousand words. But, as it turns out, it takes almost 100 million pictures to make a map.

BY JOSHUA KEATING | JANUARY 5, 2009