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Year of the Dead
With nearly twice as many killings as last year and violence spreading across the country, 2010 was the worst year on record for Mexico's hyperbrutal drug war.
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Life Under Europe's Last Dictator
On the eve of Belarus's Sunday presidential elections, FP looked at eight brave activists fighting for a better future. By Monday, at least six of the eight had been beaten, imprisoned, or gone missing. We continue to update their stories.
BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | DECEMBER 16, 2010
The Party Goes On
It took just a few hours for demolition crews to flatten the Shanghai studios of China's world-renowned contemporary artist Ai Weiwei on Tuesday. In November, Ai -- who was then under house arrest in Beijing -- organized a "party" to mark the impending destruction of his studio, drawing hundreds of admirers from across China.
BY CORNELIU CAZACU, CHRISTINA LARSON | NOVEMBER 9, 2010
Obama's Asian Tour
Washington may have just gotten a lot less friendly for the president, but he still has plenty of fans in Asia. A look at where he's going, who he's meeting, and what it means.
BY JARED MONDSCHEIN, ANDREW SWIFT | NOVEMBER 5, 2010
Beautiful Me!
Chinese wedding photography is a parade of excess and ambition, an elaborate and expensive rite of passage, and often more prized than the ceremony itself.
BY CORNELIU CAZACU, CHRISTINA LARSON | NOVEMBER 2, 2010
The Independence Brigade
Southern Sudan prepares for statehood…or war.
PHOTOS BY PETE MULLER, CAPTIONS BY MAGGIE FICK | OCTOBER 29, 2010
Mr. Ahmadinejad Goes to Lebanon
Iran's controversial president makes a big show in Beirut.
OCTOBER 14, 2010
The Grayest Generation
Forget about a youth boom -- the planet's population is getting older, fast. From the West Bank to Woodstock, a look at a world going gray.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON, ANDREW SWIFT | OCTOBER 12, 2010
The Turtle Bay Runway
The lights may have gone out at this year's U.N. General Assembly, but it's the glittering fashions -- even more than the orations -- that keep on shining.
BY COLUM LYNCH | OCTOBER 5, 2010
Women in Control
While it's true that more than 75 percent of parliaments worldwide are more than three-quarters male, in recent years some high-powered female heads of state have bucked the trend. If Dilma Rousseff is elected as Brazil's first female president, she'll be joining a small, but elite, cohort.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON, ANDREW SWIFT | OCTOBER 1, 2010
From Rabble-Rousing to Rubble
In Jaffna, Sri Lanka, the Tamil community is slowly rising again.
CAPTIONS AND PHOTOS BY ROSS TUTTLE | SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
The Devil Wears Taupe
Not all the world's dictators are clotheshorses, but as these leaders show, sometimes politics, power, and polyester combine to make fashion magic.
SEPTEMBER 15, 2010
Labor Day in Hell
The world's most repressive workplace environments -- where trade unions are suppressed, workers' rights are ignored, and forced labor is not unknown.
CAPTIONS BY ARCH PUDDINGTON | SEPTEMBER 3, 2010
China's New Tomorrowland
Once a misty, forgotten backwater, the western Chinese city of Chongqing is growing faster than mapmakers and even government officials can track.
PHOTOS BY MATTHEW NIEDERHAUSER/INSTITUTE | AUGUST 16, 2010
Metropolis Now
Stunning images of the world’s top global cities.
BY BRIAN FUNG, JARED MONDSCHEIN | AUGUST 16, 2010
Lords of the Ring
Spain's much-celebrated and much-debated sport of bullfighting may finally be headed for change.
BY JENNIFER T. PARKER | JULY 28, 2010
Blood on the Tracks
Photos from the dangerous journey to El Norte.
PHOTOS BY FELIPE JÁCOME | JULY 23, 2010
Another Side of Shanghai
Making space for glitzy Shanghai Expo sites and modern office buildings means clearing vestiges of the old city -- and the old Shanghainese who live there.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SUE ANNE TAY | JULY 14, 2010
The Shadows of Srebrenica
Fifteen years on, haunting images of the massacre that shamed Europe.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANDY SPYRA | JULY 9, 2010
What Hunger Looks Like
War photographer Marcus Bleasdale visits Djibouti – where poverty, not conflict, divides the country – and documents eerily familiar scenes of deprivation and malnutrition.
Photography by MARCUS BLEASDALE | JULY 6, 2010
The Least Free Places on Earth: 2010
A look at 20 places with nothing to celebrate this weekend. The following images are from the bottom 20 countries and territories from Freedom House's Freedom in the World report, with text prepared by the staff of Freedom House.
JULY 2, 2010
Postcards from Hell
Images from the world's most failed states.
CAPTIONS BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JULY/AUGUST 2010
Who's Your Daddy?
World leaders and their fathers.
BY CLARE SESTANOVICH, SYLVIE STEIN | JUNE 18, 2010
Afghanistan Through Teenagers' Eyes
What happens when you give cameras to a group of Kabul teens? You see Afghanistan not as a place of war and violence, but as a country where children still play and life carries on.
CAPTIONS BY PREETI AROON | JUNE 16, 2010
Iran’s Year of Turmoil
Looking back at what we saw during the Green Movement protests -- and what we didn't see.
BY CAMERON ABADI | JUNE 10, 2010
The Magnificent Migrants
Extraordinary photos of ordinary Mexicans.
Photos and text by DULCE PINZÓN | MAY 28, 2010
BY URI FRIEDMAN
Want to Reinvigorate the Middle East Peace Process? Start with 3G.
BY ALEC ROSS
Europe's Dirty Little Secret? Belarus.
BY CRISTINA ODONE
The Suddenly Booming Business of Secretive Communications
BY ELIAS GROLL
In Medieval Europe, Bad Weather Was Especially Bad for Jews
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
The Strange Letter That Has France Asking, 'Use Me?'
BY LYDIA TOMKIW
Armitage on Afghan War: 'It Is Not Worth One More Limb'
BY THOMAS E. RICKS
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