Bricks for Bread and Milk

India's capital city has been flooded with a new wave of migrant workers -- children.

BY KAYVAN FARZANEH, ANDREW SWIFT | FEBRUARY 5, 2010

India's capital city has been flooded with a new wave of migrant workers -- children.

 
 

“I Am So Happy He’s Not Dead”

Photojournalist Chris Hondros shares the scenes and stories of the two and a half weeks he spent walking the rubble of Port-au-Prince -- visiting morgues and newly dug mass graves, and meeting survivors in crowded makeshift hospitals.

BY CHRIS HONDROS | FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Photojournalist Chris Hondros shares the scenes and stories of the two and a half weeks he spent walking the rubble of Port-au-Prince -- visiting morgues and newly dug mass graves, and meeting survivors in crowded makeshift hospitals.

 

Chris Hondros is a New York-based senior staff photographer for Getty Images.

 

Afghanistan's Ultimate Sport

What do you call men on horses fighting over a headless goat carcass? Buzkashi -- Afghanistan's national sport, which also just happens to be a powerful metaphor for the country's politics.

BY KAYVAN FARZANEH, ANDREW SWIFT | JANUARY 29, 2010

What do you call men on horses fighting over a headless goat carcass? Buzkashi -- Afghanistan's national sport, which also just happens to be a powerful metaphor for the country's politics.

 

Kayvan Farzaneh and Andrew Swift are editorial researchers at Foreign Policy.

 

My Trip to GTMO

One year into his presidency, Barack Obama still hasn't managed to close the controversial U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay. But its days are clearly numbered. Here's how I'll always remember the place.

BY JOSH ROGIN | JANUARY 23, 2010

One year into his presidency, Barack Obama still hasn't managed to close the controversial U.S. prison facility at Guantánamo Bay. But its days are clearly numbered. Here's how I'll always remember the place.

 

Josh Rogin, a staff writer at Foreign Policy, reports daily on U.S. national security and diplomacy at The Cable.

After the Fall

From the poorest neighborhoods to the presidential palace, Haiti's man-made landscape, now demolished, will never be the same.

JANUARY 19, 2010

From the poorest neighborhoods to the presidential palace, Haiti's man-made landscape, now demolished, will never be the same.

 
 

Anarchy in the PRC

Overnight megacities, packed freeways, smoggy skies, and angsty rockers in tight leather pants. Photographer Matthew Niederhauser documents the other side of China’s urban boom.

BY MATTHEW NIEDERHAUSER, CHRISTINA LARSON | JANUARY 15, 2010

Overnight megacities, packed freeways, smoggy skies, and angsty rockers in tight leather pants. Photographer Matthew Niederhauser documents the other side of China’s urban boom.

 

Matthew Niederhauser is a photographer in Beijing and the author of Sound Kapital. Christina Larson is contributing editor at Foreign Policy.

 

Baby, It's Cold Outside

The new year has greeted many parts of the world with a freezing Arctic blast. Some have endured frustrating transportation delays, while others have been chilling out, enjoying the surrounding winter wonderland.

BY PREETI AROON | JANUARY 7, 2010

The new year has greeted many parts of the world with a freezing Arctic blast. Some have endured frustrating transportation delays, while others have been chilling out, enjoying the surrounding winter wonderland.

 

Preeti Aroon is copy chief at Foreign Policy.

Daily Life in Yemen

An ancient land that globalization seems to have passed by, Yemen -- where the “underpants bomber” allegedly trained for his failed Christmas Day attack -- is not just about Islamic extremism, choking traffic, and crushing poverty.

BY SANDY CHOI | FEBRUARY 20, 2009

An ancient land that globalization seems to have passed by, Yemen -- where the “underpants bomber” allegedly trained for his failed Christmas Day attack -- is not just about Islamic extremism, choking traffic, and crushing poverty.

Sandy Choi

 

Sandy Choi is a photographer in Washington, D.C. Her portfolio can be found at http://sandychoi.net.

 
January/February 2010