Culture
The 14 Biggest Lies of 2011
The big fibs that defined our year.
BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | DECEMBER 16, 2011
The Anti-Putin Brigade
Portraits of Russia's would-be revolutionaries -- and their intimate thoughts on Vladimir Putin and the country's dark political future.
PHOTOS BY KIRILL NIKITENKO | DECEMBER 5, 2011
2011 Global Thinkers Gala: The Honorees Gather
Photos from an evening of cocktails and conversation.
DECEMBER 2, 2011
The Global Thinkers' Book Club
Want to think like the world's best minds? Start by reading like them. The FP Global Thinkers' 20 most recommended titles.
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Global Thinkers, Fill in the Blanks
The world's smartest people tell us what to think about Barack Obama, the Arab Spring, and the dizzying events of 2011.
NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Continental Divide
Do Europeans believe in the European Union enough to save it?
BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 25, 2011
The Mall of the World
What a Hong Kong shopping complex tells us about the true nature of globalization.
BY GORDON MATHEWS | NOVEMBER 25, 2011
The Persian Incursion
What I learned as the armchair general of a paper Israeli air force.
BY MICHAEL PECK | NOVEMBER 9, 2011
Libya’s Sexual Revolution
How the uprising turned young Libyan men from hopeless layabouts into marriageable heroes.
BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | OCTOBER 26, 2011
R.O.C.K. in the D.P.R.K.
What can we learn about the Hermit Kingdom from the amazing music videos it has on YouTube?
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | OCTOBER 21, 2011
Pyongyang Rock City
Meet the hitmakers of the Hermit Kingdom.
BY ISAAC STONE FISH | OCTOBER 21, 2011
An Islamist, a Liberal, and a Former Regime Loyalist Walk into a Cafe...
Three Libyans try to make sense of their country after Qaddafi.
BY RYAN CALDER | OCTOBER 21, 2011
China's Ultimate Fighting Crickets
Inside China's strange obsession with battling bugs.
BY JONATHAN BROWNING | OCTOBER 19, 2011
Don't Worry About Being Happy
Hey, world leaders: Knowing how good your citizens feel about themselves won't help you run your country.
BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 17, 2011
Haiti Doesn't Need Your Yoga Mat
A visual history of the West's misguided attempts to send its hand-me-downs to the developing world.
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Written on the Wall
A tumultuous year, told through the scrawls and murals of the people living through it.
NARRATED BY ROGER GASTMAN | NOVEMBER 2011
Shake It Up
Cairo's spray-painted walls are still ablaze with revolutionary fervor, but Egypt's youth isn't only angry at Mubarak anymore.
BY TY MCCORMICK | SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
Reading Shakespeare in Kandahar
The United States has won some measure of revenge in the 10 years since 9/11. But as in Shakespeare's bloodthirsty play Titus Andronicus, has the cost been too great?
BY NICK SCHIFRIN | SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
AgitProps
The Soviet era in Russia was a period of economic stagnation, political oppression -- and really gorgeous vacuum cleaners. A look at the space-age design that characterized those years, from the new book Made in Russia.
AUGUST 25, 2011
Hotels for Hacks
A look at some of the world's famous hotels, loved, hated, and holed up in by far-flung war correspondents.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING, TY MCCORMICK, BENJAMIN PAUKER | AUGUST 24, 2011
Big Screen Bullies
The coming attraction at multiplexes worldwide? American bad guys, from torturing soldiers to evil Army doctors.
AUGUST 16, 2011
The Lap of Luxembourgery
So what if it has the world's highest per capita GDP? A visit to the debt-ridden capital of European complacency.
BY ERIC PAPE | SEPT/OCT 2011
America the Brutiful
Yanks are starring on foreign screens -- and it ain't a pretty sight.
BY MICHAEL IDOV | SEPT/OCT 2011
900 Channels of the Great Satan
In Iran's latest TV obsession, the Ugly American is -- themselves.
BY AZADEH MOAVENI | SEPT/OCT 2011
The Cultural Evolution
The baggage we carry from our ethnic and national backgrounds can keep people poor -- but it can also change, and faster than you'd think.
BY CHARLES KENNY | AUGUST 8, 2011
Egypt's Protest Art
Art from the graffitists, cineastes, cartoonists, and photographers who are making Egypt's post-revolution phase a bit more colorful.
AUGUST 4, 2011
The Cultural Revolution
As Egypt's artists struggle with a newly repressive military regime, the creativity that flourished after this year’s revolution is taking on some new targets.
BY URSULA LINDSEY | AUGUST 4, 2011
A Murderer's Manifesto and Me
Anders Behring Breivik, Norway's mass murderer, was a fan of my writing. Here's what I found within his perverse 1,518-page manuscript.
BY PHILLIP LONGMAN | AUGUST 1, 2011
Men in Tights
From peace-loving Captain Euro to Canada's killer lumberjack, Captain America's got company.
BY EDMUND DOWNIE | JULY 22, 2011
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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