Culture
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
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
The indispensable nation's indispensable weapon
BY JAMES TRAUB
Why Obama hasn't exactly won the war on homegrown terrorism
BY JANE HARMAN
Did Turkey just become a little more like Texas?
BY MARYA HANNUN
Was the killing of a British soldier in London actually an act of terrorism?
BY H.A. HELLYER
WikiLeaks hits back at documentary with 'annotated transcript'
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Mystery solved: John Kerry really ate turkey shwarma
BY MARYA HANNUN
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