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Norway's 9/11?
Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of Norway's Peace Research Institute Oslo, explains why the Norwegian capital might have been on a terrorist's shortlist of potential targets.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | JULY 22, 2011
The Mullah Krekar Show
Is this the man behind the Oslo terrorist bombing?
BY J.M. BERGER | JULY 22, 2011
In Defense of Hacks
Britain's press is sensationalistic, sloppy, and scandal-prone -- and America would be lucky to have one like it.
BY TOBY HARNDEN | JULY 21, 2011
Assassin Nation
After more than three decades of targeted killings, is there anyone left alive who can actually run Afghanistan?
BY EDWARD GIRARDET | JULY 18, 2011
Realpolitik in a Fantasy World
How George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire novels explain our foreign policy.
BY ALYSSA ROSENBERG | JULY 18, 2011
The People's Republic of Rumors
Whether Jiang Zemin is dead or alive, one fact is beyond question: China's Sina Weibo is the world's best rumor-mongering machine ever.
BY CHRISTINA LARSON | JULY 8, 2011
Bashir's Choice
The brutal means that the Sudanese president has used to keep his country together have instead blown it apart in the most chaotic way possible.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY 8, 2011
It's All Greek to Them
What Europeans just don't get about Greece. Hint: Despite appearances, they're not all lazy anarchists.
BY JOANNA KAKISSIS | JUNE 30, 2011
Don't Be Evil
What Google doesn't get about violent extremism -- and how it can do better.
BY WILLIAM MCCANTS | JUNE 30, 2011
Let's Make a Deal
The United States and the Taliban should be able to work out a compromise on Afghanistan. But will the Afghans be able to live with it?
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 24, 2011
Fading Legacy
Yelena Bonner and Andrei Sakharov were giants. Why do so few Russians remember them?
BY DAVID E. HOFFMAN | JUNE 20, 2011
Suspicious Minds
Is Ilan Grapel an Israeli spy, or an innocent victim of Egypt's overactive imagination?
BY MAX STRASSER | JUNE 16, 2011
Straight Guy in Scotland
What the "Gay Girl in Damascus" hoax tells us about ourselves and the media in the era of the Arab Spring.
BY DAVID KENNER | JUNE 13, 2011
The Big Test
Does China's nerve-racking gaokao college-entrance exam really identify the country's best and brightest, or is it even sillier and more unfair than the SAT?
BY CHRISTINA LARSON | JUNE 10, 2011
Revenge of the Tiger Children
China's young, spoiled kids are rejecting traditional values. But can the state make Mao or Confucius seem relevant again -- before it's too late?
BY WEN LIAO | MAY 31, 2011
A Groom's Tale
In rural Afghanistan, girls aren't the only ones getting married too young.
BY ANNA BADKHEN | MAY 19, 2011
Shakira vs. the Democrats
For Morocco's would-be revolutionaries, a popular music festival is a corrupt symbol of the country's misplaced priorities.
BY LAILA LALAMI | MAY 19, 2011
The Myth of 9 Billion
Why ignoring family planning overseas was the worst foreign-policy mistake of the century.
BY MALCOLM POTTS, MARTHA CAMPBELL | MAY 9, 2011
The Code of the Hills
It’s not Abbottabad the United States should be worried about.
BY AKBAR AHMED | MAY 6, 2011
Colonialism By Another Name
A response to Charles Kenny from Survival International.
BY STEPHEN CORRY | MAY 2, 2011
Freedom #Fail
Why we shouldn't expect Facebook and its Silicon Valley peers to act in the world's best interests.
BY JILLIAN C. YORK | APRIL 29, 2011
Out of Eden
Pre-modern lifestyles were fraught with violence, disease, and uncertainty. We should be happy that indigenous societies are increasingly leaving them behind.
BY CHARLES KENNY | APRIL 26, 2011
Princess Brides (and Grooms)
From Bhutan to Swaziland, other countries' royal weddings are more fun.
BY AYLIN ZAFAR | APRIL 26, 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
Thug Democracy
Nigeria is cheering its first legitimate and internationally praised election. But violent protests in the north make it clear just how divided the country still is.
BY MAGGIE FICK | APRIL 19, 2011
Khyber Impasse
How long can the United States and Pakistan keep pretending that they actually have any interests in common?
BY JAMES TRAUB | APRIL 15, 2011
The Sounds of the Revolution
Nearly two months into Libya's uprising, the rhythms of rebellion in Benghazi seem almost normal.
BY RYAN CALDER | APRIL 11, 2011
Bad Politics, Worse Prose
From suicidal astronauts to bestiality, you can learn a lot about what makes the world's worst tyrants tick from the terrible books they write.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON | APRIL 8, 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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