Media

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

Can Mosquito Nets Stop Terrorists?

A previously unreported program sheds light on the battle for Africa's hearts and minds -- and the battle between the State Department and the Department of Defense.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Seeing Red

The Soviet Union was a repressive regime that stifled all forms of creative expression. But author David King discovered a treasure trove of visual relics from the communist era by little-known photographers, designers, and artists.

SEPT. / OCT. 2009

The FP Quiz

Are you a globalization junkie? Then test your knowledge of global trends, economics, and politics with 8 questions about how the world works.

SEPT. / OCT. 2009

How to Cover a Paranoid Regime from Your Laptop

The inside story of TehranBureau.com.

BY KELLY GOLNOUSH NIKNEJAD | AUGUST 14, 2009

Meet Afghanistan's Biggest Blogger

How 26-year-old Nasim Fekrat helped create Afghanistan's blogosphere out of thin air.

BY ANNIE LOWREY | AUGUST 12, 2009

Afghanistan: An Unexamined War

The U.S. media has warned against Afghanistan becoming a "forgotten" war. A more apt term would be "unexamined."

BY MORTON ABRAMOWITZ | AUGUST 7, 2009

Censoring the Voice of America

Why is it OK to broadcast terrorist propaganda but not taxpayer-funded media reports?

BY MATT ARMSTRONG | AUGUST 6, 2009

Pants Pants Revolution

Sudanese courts might give Lubna Hussein 40 lashes for the crime of wearing pants. But they also might start a grassroots backlash on the world stage. 

BY ANONYMOUS | AUGUST 5, 2009

Bildt to Last?

He's the diplomat Europe loves to hate. And he's only got five months left.

BY CAMERON ABADI | JULY 30, 2009

War Criminal Charles Taylor Clears the Courtroom

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor, who spurred a decade of violence in neighboring Sierra Leone, is on trial for war crimes. Why don't Sierra Leoneans seem to care?

BY GLENNA GORDON | JULY 28, 2009

India's Media Explosion

Why print journalism is flourishing in the world's largest democracy.

BY KANISHK THAROOR | JULY 20, 2009

Welcome to Hamaswood

A trip inside Hamas's movie studio.

BY SHARON WEINBERGER | JULY 16, 2009

Obama's Trash Talk

Stop telling Africa what to do. Lectures are part of the problem.

BY ANDREW M. MWENDA | JULY 15, 2009

Mute Muslims

Why doesn't the Islamic world speak up about the Uighurs?

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | JULY 13, 2009

We Report, We Decide

Can the Chinese government build an international media behemoth -- and does anyone care?

BY MITCH MOXLEY | MAY 15, 2009

A Melting Pot It’s Not

How the Internet is giving nationalism a boost.

BY EVGENY MOROZOV | FEBRUARY 10, 2009