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A Cluster Bomb Killed My Father
It's time to outlaw these dangerous weapons once and for all.
BY NADIM MATTA | JANUARY 3, 2013
No Chickens or Cricket Bats
The strange list of Indian products you can't import in Pakistan.
DECEMBER 2012
5 Key U.S. Cables for Understanding Thailand's Turmoil
Obtained by Reuters and curated by Andrew MacGregor Marshall.
JUNE 29, 2011
It's Not Just the Veil
Technology and globalization have reinvented other traditional Muslim practices in some surprising ways.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MAY/JUNE 2011
40 Years of Foreign Policy
A look back at the last four decades of world affairs.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Someday, Their Prince Will Come
Who's next in line to lead the House of Saud? King Abdullah, 87, is unwell, having recently traveled to the United States for medical treatment, and speculation is heating up about his replacement. Unfortunately, none of the potential candidates is getting any younger either.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Books Behind Bars
Countries worldwide have often sought to ban books they find politically inconvenient, religiously awkward, or just plain embarrassing. But for writers like Russia’s Vasily Grossman, who pleaded with the Soviet censors in 1961, "I am physically free, but the book to which I have dedicated my life is in jail," a book's ban means far more than just a dip in sales. Here are some books behind bars today.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | NOVEMBER 2010
Gaming the Electric Car Chase
As the four front-runners sprint around the track, some favorites could end up in the dust.
NOVEMBER 2010
Hamilton’s Disciples
A new generation of Obama’s senior officials learned at the feet of the legendary Democrat.
SEPTEMBER 29, 2010
Hacking in a Nutshell
Selections from a hacker's manifesto and how-to guide written by one of China's preeminent hackers, Peng Yinan.
MARCH 3, 2010
Africa Heats Up
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH/APRIL 2010
Money Talks
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH/APRIL 2010
Peak Insurgency
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH/APRIL 2010
Rings of Terror
Is that scary man with a gun a full-fledged member of al Qaeda -- or just a wannabe? Here's a guide to the people who make up the organization's core and its periphery.
BY LYDIA KHALIL | FEBRUARY 10, 2010
Mapping the Twilight Zone
Here's where Ghajar sits in relation to Lebanon, Israel, and Syria.
BY ANDREW TABLER | FEBRUARY 2, 2010
All the Presidents' Men
Many politicians, public intellectuals, and political pundits have been greatly influenced by former U.S. presidents, be it Jefferson, Hamilton, Wilson, or Jackson.
BY WALTER RUSSELL MEAD | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010
The COINdinistas
Who knows everthing there is to know and more about counterinsurgency and its current role in U.S. military strategy? These guys.
BY THOMAS E. RICKS | DECEMBER 2009
The Anti-God Squad
Why even some of the most zealous non-believers may abandon the crusade against religion.
BY ROBERT WRIGHT | DECEMBER 2009
The Big Thinkers of Giving
How philanthrocapitalists are reshaping the world of charity.
BY MATTHEW BISHOP, MICHAEL GREEN | DECEMBER 2009
Market Riot
How the crisis inspired an entirely new set of big ideas on big money.
BY NOAM SCHEIBER | DECEMBER 2009
No Will, No Way
Bueno de Mesquita's model projects a decline in global willingness to regulate greenhouse gases over the next 100 years and beyond.
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009
Welcome to Jordan's 5-star refugee camp
BY NERI ZILBER
GeoGuessr: Where in the (Googleable) world are you?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
The real-life war game that almost led to nuclear armageddon
BY NATE JONES
Why does the U.S. have so many more tornadoes than other countries?
BY URI FRIEDMAN
Rand Paul: My colleagues just voted to arm the allies of al Qaeda
BY JOHN HUDSON
No, 3-D printed food will not end world hunger
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
A secret recording shocks Chavismo
BY JUAN NAGEL
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