Culture
Stiff Upper Lip
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may have shaved off his mustache, but it's going to take a whole lot more than that to convince the world that he's not a dictator. FP investigates the whiskers that autocrats wear.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 30, 2011
Get Lost
A new book explores the roots of deep travel -- as necessary for Manhattan homebodies as for madcap foreign correspondents.
BY PAUL SALOPEK | MARCH 28, 2011
The Island Nation
Japan will rebuild, but not how you think. And 20 years of misread history holds the clues.
BY PETER TASKER | MARCH 24, 2011
Death of a True Afrikaner Believer
At the end of apartheid, he founded an all-white community he believed would be a utopia in the wilderness. Twenty years later, his death reveals some unexpected paradoxes of race in South Africa.
BY EVE FAIRBANKS | MARCH 22, 2011
The Drama in Delhi
India's government has been rocked by scandal after scandal. So why hasn't it fallen?
BY HENRY FOY | MARCH 18, 2011
Italy's Not-So-Happy Birthday
On the occasion of their country's 150th anniversary, Italians realize that national unity is easier said than done.
BY CONOR GALLAGHER, MARTINA ALBERTAZZI | MARCH 18, 2011
Qaddafi Under Siege
A political psychologist assesses Libya's mercurial leader.
BY JERROLD M. POST | MARCH 15, 2011
Land of Disaster
Roiled by earthquake, typhoon, tsunami, fire, and volcano -- not to mention nuclear attack and terrorism -- Japan for centuries has been a land of disaster, as reflected in popular culture from art to literature to our favorite monster flicks.
BY BRITT PETERSON | MARCH 14, 2011
How Not to Intervene in Libya
Pundits and politicians are promoting all kinds of dangerous ideas for taking down Qaddafi. Here are five rules Obama should consider before plunging in blindly.
BY DIRK VANDEWALLE | MARCH 10, 2011
Identification, Please
In the developed world, high-tech personal IDs are the stuff of Orwellian dystopia. But for everyone else, they could be a path to a happier, healthier, less precarious life.
BY JAMIE HOLMES | MARCH 8, 2011
The Shark Stops Swimming
Iran's supreme leader has just ousted his most formidable rival. Are the Islamic Republic's political games over? Or are they just beginning?
BY BARBARA SLAVIN | MARCH 8, 2011
Understanding Libya's Michael Corleone
The international community saw Muammar's Western-educated, reform-minded son as the best hope for a freer, more democratic Libya. Did they get him wrong?
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | MARCH 7, 2011
Pax Romana
A brief history of modern Italy's failed African adventure.
BY CAMERON ABADI | MARCH 4, 2011
Roman Ruins
How Muammar al-Qaddafi hoodwinked Italy for decades.
BY MAURIZIO MOLINARI | MARCH 3, 2011
What the U.S. Is Leaving Behind in Pech
As the Army pulls out of a region that was once considered a success story, some clues as to what the larger drawdown may eventually look like.
BY NEIL SHEA | MARCH 3, 2011
Oman's Renaissance Man
As reform protests grow in the Sultanate, it's worth remembering that its ruler doesn't deserve to be mentioned among the worst of the Arabian autocrats.
BY ROBERT D. KAPLAN | MARCH 1, 2011
Oman's Days of Rage
A sleepy little sultanate erupts in unexpected anger.
BY JACKIE SPINNER | FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Valley of the Lone Tourist
In ancient Upper Egypt, there are no gawking travelers to be found. But Egyptians are thrilled with their newfound freedom.
BY CARL HOFFMAN | FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Cairo It Ain't
Pro-democracy protesters have started something big in Yemen. But are they going to like how it ends?
BY HALEY SWEETLAND EDWARDS | FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Russia's Bloody Backyard
The North Caucasus, annexed by Russia in the 1800s and fiercely struggling for independence pretty much ever since, has turned into a killing field right on the edge of Europe. It may not get the headlines of Iraq or Afghanistan, but the raging Islamist insurgency here is getting increasingly deadly.
FEBRUARY 18, 2011
Echoes of Belgrade
From Minsk to Cairo, the nonviolent democratic uprisings of the past decade have been influenced by the tactics and imagery of Serbia's 2000 Bulldozer Revolution.
FEBRUARY 16, 2011
The Smiling Cleric's Revolution
Iran's optimistic reformers realize they've hit a dead end.
BY AZADEH MOAVENI | FEBRUARY 16, 2011
The Ripple Effect
From Algeria to Iran and the countries in between, a look at how revolution fever is spreading across the Middle East.
FEBRUARY 15, 2011
The Arab World's Youth Army
Meet the chronically unemployed twenty-somethings fueling social and political upheaval across the Middle East.
BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | JANUARY 27, 2011
The Great Invention Race
Whatever we do, China and India will train more scientists and engineers. But America's still got the best environment for ideas to grow.
BY ADAM SEGAL | JANUARY 27, 2011
Raj to Riches
A literary festival sparks a fierce debate about Britain's colonial legacy -- and shows that Indian authors have much to offer the world.
BY HENRY FOY | JANUARY 24, 2011
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
The Forum for the Future was supposed to be an instrument of George W. Bush's Middle East freedom agenda. Seven years later, it embodies everything that was wrong with it -- and the Arab street is taking matters into its own hands.
BY JAMES TRAUB | JANUARY 14, 2011
Irony Is Good!
How Mao killed Chinese humor ... and how the Internet is slowly bringing it back again.
BY ERIC ABRAHAMSEN | JANUARY 12, 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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