Media

What Really Happened in Urumqi?

One year later, here's what we still don't know about the bloody riots in China's Xinjiang region.

BY KATHLEEN E. MCLAUGHLIN | JUNE 24, 2010

Out of the Closet, into the Chat Rooms

How the Internet is revolutionizing gay rights in Latin America.

BY ELISABETH JAY FRIEDMAN | JUNE 17, 2010

A Short History of a Bad Metaphor

Working with Russia isn't necessarily a bad idea. Reducing it to a catchphrase is. 

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JUNE 16, 2010

Ethiopia's Democratic Sham

A government clampdown has rendered the outcome of Sunday's parliamentary elections a foregone conclusion. Washington doesn't seem to mind that its ally, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, is assured a win.

BY NATHANIEL MYERS | MAY 21, 2010

Overcoming the Language Barrier

FP's translation project: From the Rwandan genocide to Tito's death, from Indian Muslims to Vietnamese Agent Orange victims, and from Israeli communists to Parisian chroniclers of the Vichy years, a selection of works you won't read anywhere else -- at least, not in English.

BY BRITT PETERSON | MAY 7, 2010

Defending Dennis Ross

In his latest attack on the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Stephen Walt strikes a note that would have made Joseph McCarthy proud.

BY ROBERT SATLOFF | APRIL 8, 2010

Is This the Future of Journalism?

Why Wikileaks matters.

BY JONATHAN STRAY | APRIL 7, 2010

The Things I Forgot to Carry

My very first embed.

BY JAMES TRAUB | APRIL 5, 2010

The Top Chef for India's Real Housewives

The man behind India's proposed new 24-hour food channel isn't quite the Westernized culinary rebel some might think. 

BY MIRANDA KENNEDY | MARCH 29, 2010

The Message Obama Should Send to Iran

Last March, Barack Obama extended a hand to the Iranian government on the occasion of the country's New Year. This time, he should speak straight to the people.

BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | MARCH 18, 2010

The Many Wives of Jacob Zuma

Why the South African president's polygamy is about more than womanizing.

BY MIRIAM KOKTVEDGAARD ZEITZEN | MARCH 12, 2010

The Green Movement Is More Than Facebook

Why Feb. 11 was no failure for Iran's opposition.

BY MOHAMMAD SADEGHI | MARCH 8, 2010

Life Inside Somalia’s Bunker Government

An interview with Information Minister Dahir Gelle, as told to FP's Elizabeth Dickinson.

MARCH 5, 2010

Burma's Oscar Moment

Forget Avatar, The Hurt Locker, and all the rest for a minute. Here's the story of the film that deserves to win big.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 3, 2010

What Happened to New York's Moxie?

Trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in Manhattan would have showed the terrorists that Americans are not afraid. Eight and a half years after 9/11, we’re not there yet.

BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 2, 2010

Yemen's 15 Minutes of Fame

The world's attention may have moved on since January, but that doesn't mean the country's problems have disappeared.

BY GREGG CARLSTROM | FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Meet the Sims … and Shoot Them

The rise of militainment.

BY P.W. SINGER | MARCH/APRIL 2010

Did Hitler's Mistress Have A Clue?

A new German biography attempts to show Eva Braun in a new light. But is there anything there to show?

BY JESSA CRISPIN | FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Putin’s Parliamentary Circus

Naming a louche pop singer to the Duma is just the latest in a string of bizarre appointments for Russia’s increasingly brazen ringmaster.

BY JULIA IOFFE | JANUARY 29, 2010

CIA Man Retracts Claim on Waterboarding

A study in "enhanced reporting techniques."

BY JEFF STEIN | JANUARY 26, 2010

Lost in #Haiti

How Haiti's disaster showed Twitter's limits as a news medium.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 22, 2010

Internet Freedom

The prepared text of U.S. of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech, delivered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

JANUARY 21, 2010

In Italy, Farce or Tragedy?

This year, Berlusconi gave journalists plenty to work with, from his bickering with his wife to his bickering with the courts. But is he muffling Italian journalism at the same time? 

BY ANNIE LOWREY | DECEMBER 30, 2009

How al Qaeda Dupes Its Followers

Osama bin Laden's terror network has perfected the art of masking its unpopular agenda with a recruitment pitch that can hook just about anyone.

BY MALCOLM NANCE | DECEMBER 15, 2009

Indian Winter

What the censorship of a film about India's founding father shows about New Delhi's cautious relationship toward its own history.

BY KAPIL KOMIREDDI | OCTOBER 19, 2009

Revolution in a Box

It's not Twitter or Facebook that's reinventing the planet. Eighty years after the first commercial broadcast crackled to life, television still rules our world. And let's hear it for the growing legions of couch potatoes: All those soap operas might be the ticket to a better future after all.

BY CHARLES KENNY | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009

Fighting Terror the Cold War Way

Books, art, and culture can help win the battle of ideas in the Middle East.

BY TODD HELMUS, DALIA DASSA KAYE | OCTOBER 14, 2009

Too Hot for Turkish TV

Turkey's ruling political party is going to war with its biggest media conglomerate. Is Turkish democracy at risk?

BY SONER CAGAPTAY | OCTOBER 1, 2009

The Early Read on: The Great Recession

As experts attempt to heal the fractured global market, a group of new books on the financial crisis is already offering the first draft of history.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

China's Top Muckrakers Stop Digging

Why is Caijing -- long a lone outpost of daring Chinese journalism -- suddenly censoring itself?

BY APRIL RABKIN | SEPTEMBER 4, 2009