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Bucking the Odds in North Korea
Why Kim Jong Un might just dare to be different.
BY JAY ULFELDER | SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
Bullish on the Bear
It’s hard to find people who are optimistic about the future of Russian democracy. Leon Aron explains why he’s one of them.
BY PAUL STAROBIN | SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
The Life and Death of a Great Russian City
The tragic plot to destroy Nizhny Novgorod's centuries-old historic city center.
BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | AUGUST 22, 2012
Hugo Chávez's Mega-Mausoleum
The South American strongman is constructing a massive tomb to hold Simon Bolivar's remains ... and perhaps his own, one day.
AUGUST 17, 2012
Beijing Forever
In China's pulsing capital, change is the only constant.
BY MICHAEL MEYER | SEPT/OCT 2012
Once Upon a Time in Shanghai
Snapshots of Shanghai's heyday as the Vegas of Asia.
BY KATIE CELLA | AUGUST 13, 2012
The Rise and Fall and Rise of New Shanghai
Is history repeating itself in China's glittering global city?
BY DANIEL BROOK | SEPT/OCT 2012
In Praise of Slums
Why millions of people choose to live in urban squalor.
BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPT/OCT 2012
The Scorpion and the Frog
For years, Syria supported a witches' brew of terrorist groups across the Middle East. Now, it's payback time.
BY TY MCCORMICK | AUGUST 7, 2012
Smokeless Stoves, Girl-Friendly Schools, and the Bloc That Wasn’t
Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.
BY PETER PASSELL | AUGUST 3, 2012
August Heats Up
Follow the events of August 1962, as Cold War tensions continue to unfold in the run-up to the Cuban missile crisis.
BY RACHEL DOBBS | AUGUST 2, 2012
Burma's Lost Boys
The government in Burma is promising to clean up its act. But the army is still recruiting child soldiers.
BY PATRICK BODENHAM | AUGUST 2, 2012
Local Bloodshed, Global Headache
Sectarian conflict in Burma is once again spurring talk of a “global war against Islam.”
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | AUGUST 1, 2012
Geolympics
From raised fists to fistfights, the eight most politically charged moments in Olympic history.
BY KATIE CELLA | JULY 26, 2012
The Innocents Abroad
The 'tradition' of American presidential challengers demonstrating their foreign-policy chops with a big international trip is no tradition at all.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY 24, 2012
July in Focus
The events leading up to the Cuban missile crisis as the Soviet military buildup in Cuba gathered momentum exactly half a century ago.
BY RACHEL DOBBS | JULY 17, 2012
Lessons My Father Taught Me About How to Live on a Dangerous Planet
Remembering a survivor.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JULY 16, 2012
Liberté, Egalité, Hilarité
The best political cartoons of the French Revolution.
BY ADRIENNE KLASA | JULY 13, 2012
How Not to Host a Summit
The 2000 peace talks at Camp David offer three key lessons on how not to solve the world's most intractable conflict.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | JULY 10, 2012
Burma's Misled Righteous
How Burma’s pro-democracy movement betrayed its own ideals and rehabilitated the military
BY FRANCIS WADE | JULY 5, 2012
How Did the British Press Cover the American Revolution?
And what lessons does this history hold for today’s upheavals?
BY ELIGA H. GOULD | JULY 3, 2012
British r Coming. Pls RT!
What if Twitter had been around during the American Revolution?
JULY 3, 2012
Mexico's Bright Light
Even as the country around it sinks into a morass of drug-fueled crime, Mexico City has remained surprisingly safe.
BY LARRY KAPLOW | JUNE 29, 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
Build Burma from the Ground Up
Relying only on the state to implement democratic reforms in Burma is a fool’s errand. But there’s a better way.
BY ELLIOTT PRASSE-FREEMAN | JUNE 22, 2012
The Twisted Arc of History
In the land of no-good-options, is Barack Obama doing enough to push the cause of human rights in the Middle East?
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 22, 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
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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