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SEPT/OCT 2012
Blaming the Victims
Why is the U.S. media demanding that Sikhs defend their faith?
BY ROZINA ALI | AUGUST 8, 2012
Town of Secrets
How classified information became Washington’s currency of choice.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | AUGUST 6, 2012
Making Punk a Threat Again
Is Russia's Pussy Riot already the most politically influential punk rock group ever?
BY SPENCER ACKERMAN | AUGUST 3, 2012
The Teddy Bear Bombers
Foreign Policy speaks with the Swedish activists who dropped a planeload of stuffed animals into Belarus, Europe's last dictatorship.
INTERVIEW BY ELIAS GROLL | AUGUST 2, 2012
When Your Whole Country Is a Closet
Powerful images of gay Uganda.
BY TADEJ ZNIDARCIC | AUGUST 2, 2012
From House Slaves to Banana People
Seven new words that explain modern China.
BY EVELINE CHAO | JULY 19, 2012
Plague of Thugs
Why Mideast dictators use hoodlums to suppress dissent.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 18, 2012
Shrines into Stones
Images of the disappearing treasures of Timbuktu's ancient landmarks as militants bomb them into rubble.
JULY 10, 2012
The Women of Tahrir Square Fight Back
The revolution in Egypt isn’t over -- at least as long as female revolutionaries have anything to say about it.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JULY 5, 2012
Fortress America
Playing the new Cold War board game is a trip back to the 1980s. So why is the theme of an America being invaded still so popular?
BY MICHAEL PECK | JULY 3, 2012
The Shots Heard Round the World
Why conservative economists are aghast at radical reforms by Argentina’s central bank.
BY RICK ROWDEN | JULY 3, 2012
The Prince vs. the 'Paupers'
Liechtenstein's billionaire royal family is threatening to literally abandon its tiny, wealthy principality over a referendum to curtail its power. Is this the coming of the Liechtenspring?
BY MICHAEL Z. WISE | JUNE 29, 2012
The Missing 50 Percent
There’s no real democracy without full representation for women.
BY SUSAN A. MARKHAM | JUNE 29, 2012
Tale of the Dragon Lady
The long, sordid history behind China's blame-the-woman syndrome.
BY PAUL FRENCH | JUNE 26, 2012
Why America Can't Have It All
Anne-Marie Slaughter is on to something bigger than she realizes.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JUNE 25, 2012
Her Work Isn’t Done
This week the world is celebrating Aung San Suu Kyi’s achievements as a pro-democracy activist. Now the question is: Can she finish the job?
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JUNE 20, 2012
Asia's Next Tiger
President Aquino's anti-corruption program is just what the Philippines economy needs.
BY GREG RUSHFORD | JUNE 19, 2012
The Persian Gulf
The divide between young Iranians and the regime is widening every day.
JULY/AUGUST 2012
The Rules of the Game
China's booming bureaucracy lit is part exposé -- and part how-to guide.
BY XUJUN EBERLEIN | JULY/AUGUST 2012
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Chinese Functionaries
Why are Chinese readers so entranced by tales of low-level bureaucratic intrigue?
BY ISAAC STONE FISH | JULY/AUGUST 2012
Dreams From Their Fathers
The dads who made the world's leaders who they are.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JUNE 15, 2012
Egypt's Subsidy Blues
When Egypt's next rulers finally tackle urgently needed economic reform, they should look to an unlikely model: Iran.
BY PETER PASSELL | JUNE 15, 2012
Egypt's Constitutional Chaos
The process of drafting a new constitution is a train wreck. But there’s a way to get it back on track.
BY MARA REVKIN, YUSSUF AUF | JUNE 14, 2012
Ruling Facebookistan
The world's largest social networking site has a population nearly as large as China or India's. And the natives are getting restless.
BY REBECCA MACKINNON | JUNE 14, 2012
Facebook's a Company. Get Over It.
Why is there so much glee over Mark Zuckerberg's IPO woes?
BY EMILY PARKER | JUNE 4, 2012
Good Foreigner, Bad Foreigner
China's love-hate relationship with expats.
BY ANNE HENOCHOWICZ | JUNE 1, 2012
Too Hot for Tehran
The ayatollahs are going after a new generation of satirists. But that hasn't stopped Iran's best cartoonists-in-exile from exposing the country's deepest taboos.
JUNE 1, 2012
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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