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Pilgrims and Idiots
How celebrities should handle visits to authoritarian countries in today's world.
BY ARCH PUDDINGTON | MARCH 1, 2013
The Brotherhood vs. the Free Press
Egypt's new rulers are determined to tighten their grip on the media scene in Cairo. I should know -- they had me fired.
BY HANI SHUKRALLAH | MARCH 1, 2013
Israel's Script Turns Sour
Hollywood used to portray Israelis as heroic and brave. Today, it's films about the brutality of the occupation that make it to the silver screen.
BY LISA GOLDMAN | FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Does Hollywood Have a Foreign Policy?
Tinseltown’s biggest films tend to be highly critical of American power, but also reinforce the idea that the rest of the world is a place best avoided.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 22, 2013
The Little Search Engine That Couldn’t
How China’s Communist Party tried to compete with Google, and failed miserably.
BY ISAAC STONE FISH | FEBRUARY 22, 2013
Chinese Hackers Are Getting Dangerously Good at English
And they're coming to an inbox near you.
BY MELISSA CHAN | FEBRUARY 20, 2013
House of Cards Is a House of Cards
Why can't Americans do political intrigue like the Brits?
BY EMMA G. KELLER | FEBRUARY 19, 2013
The Laughingstock Next Door
How the Chinese are using Kim Jong Un's antics to mock their own leaders.
BY HELEN GAO | FEBRUARY 12, 2013
Revolution, Interrupted
There's a reason Egyptians keep taking to the streets: The Muslim Brotherhood has proved to be little more than the old Mubarak clique with beards.
BY HANI SHUKRALLAH | FEBRUARY 8, 2013
Martyrs of the Revolution
If history is any guide, today’s assassination in Tunisia could set off a dangerous revolutionary dynamic.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | FEBRUARY 6, 2013
The People's Republic of Hacking
China’s campaign of cyber attacks has reached epidemic proportions. Can anything be done to stop it?
BY ADAM SEGAL | JANUARY 31, 2013
The First Lab Results Are In
Democracy Lab is celebrating its first anniversary. Here are some of the things we've learned over the past year -- and where we're headed in year two.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 31, 2013
Covering the Syrian Catastrophe
The 22-month civil war is even worse than the headlines make it seem.
BY LARA SETRAKIAN | JANUARY 25, 2013
What I Learned from Gérard Depardieu
The French actor's case is the exception that proves the rule: Citizenship still matters.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 16, 2013
The Year in Unfreedom
An encouraging number of the world's people voted in 2012. But voting does not a democracy make.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 4, 2013
The Year in Quotes
The 20 most puzzling, hypocritical, and revealing things said about U.S. foreign policy in 2012.
BY MICAH ZENKO | DECEMBER 28, 2012
Feeling the Pain in Tehran
As sanctions bite, some of Iran's leaders are signaling a willingness to come back to the negotiating table.
BY NAZILA FATHI | DECEMBER 21, 2012
Nothing Is Written
The triumph of democracy isn't inevitable. It has to be fought for.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | DECEMBER 19, 2012
The Anti-Godfather
How a mayor set out to save a Sicilian city from neglect and Mafia influence.
BY LAURA BACON, RUSHDA MAJEED | DECEMBER 10, 2012
Barbarians at the Gate
Are Russia and China trying to take over the Internet? Probably. But so far they aren't having much luck.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | DECEMBER 5, 2012
Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age
Across the world, the battle for free speech is pitting governments and corporations against activists and average citizens.
BY LEE C. BOLLINGER | DECEMBER 2012
Turkey's Weakest Export
Turkey says it wants to be a model for democracy in the Middle East. But so far its actions lag behind its achievements.
BY GAMZE COŞKUN | NOVEMBER 21, 2012
Words Are Weapons of Mass Destruction
Why Hamas should watch its language.
BY DAVID KEYES | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Predicting the Future Is Easier Than It Looks
Nate Silver was just the beginning. Some of the same statistical techniques used by America's forecaster-in-chief are about to revolutionize world politics.
BY MICHAEL D. WARD , NILS METTERNICH | NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Human Rights Now
Six ways China's new leader could be the reformer the Chinese have been waiting for.
BY SOPHIE RICHARDSON | NOVEMBER 15, 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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