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Holey Days
Photos of piercing and prayer during the Tamil holiday of Thaipusam.
BY LOIS PARSHLEY | FEBRUARY 8, 2012
The LWOT: Four plead guilty to London Stock Exchange plot
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BY JENNIFER ROWLAND | FEBRUARY 3, 2012
Egypt’s Revolutionary Narrative Breaks Down
With Hosni Mubarak long gone, a heavily Islamist parliament in place, and the military in uneasy command of the country, who speaks for the revolution?
BY LAUREN E. BOHN | JANUARY 26, 2012
Monsters and Children
How dumb bigots and political correctness have hijacked our national conversation about radical violent extremism. (By which I mean: talking to Muslims about al Qaeda.)
BY J.M. BERGER | DECEMBER 9, 2011
Ready for Their Close-Up
The votes are in, and Islamist parties are ascendant throughout the Arab world. But can they rule?
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 2, 2011
An Islamist, a Liberal, and a Former Regime Loyalist Walk into a Cafe...
Three Libyans try to make sense of their country after Qaddafi.
BY RYAN CALDER | OCTOBER 21, 2011
Fear and Loathing in Christian Cairo
After a day of brutal violence, my Egyptian Christian family -- and the Coptic community -- is afraid for the future.
BY MONIQUE EL-FAIZY | OCTOBER 11, 2011
Pennies from Heaven
Is God to blame for the global market meltdown?
BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPTEMBER 26, 2011
Nigeria's Terrorism Problem
Why the suicide bombing of the U.N. compound in Abuja isn't just a lone incident -- and why it could spark an ugly religious war in Africa's most populous country.
BY ALEX THURSTON | AUGUST 26, 2011
Glenn Beck's Crusade
America's most famous talk-show host brings his brand of chutzpah to Jerusalem. Are Israelis listening?
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | AUGUST 25, 2011
Amazing Grace
To paraphrase the old adage, there are no atheists in NATO-besieged pleasure palaces. FP looks at the dictators and warlords who've embraced a higher power once they ran low on the earthly kind.
BY EDMUND DOWNIE | AUGUST 5, 2011
The Holy Month Begins
Muslims around the world prepare for a month of fasting, feasting, and praying as they celebrate the beginning of Ramadan.
AUGUST 2, 2011
A Murderer's Manifesto and Me
Anders Behring Breivik, Norway's mass murderer, was a fan of my writing. Here's what I found within his perverse 1,518-page manuscript.
BY PHILLIP LONGMAN | AUGUST 1, 2011
Rise of the Radical Right
Anders Behring Breivik is not alone. In fact, Europe has many more dangerous extremists than anyone thinks.
BY JAMIE BARTLETT, JONATHAN BIRDWELL | JULY 25, 2011
Breivik's Swamp
Was the Oslo killer radicalized by what he read online?
BY TOBY ARCHER | JULY 25, 2011
The Prince of Persia
Machiavelli’s got nothing on Iran’s Supreme Leader.
BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | JULY 21, 2011
Let's Make a Deal
The United States and the Taliban should be able to work out a compromise on Afghanistan. But will the Afghans be able to live with it?
BY JAMES TRAUB | JUNE 24, 2011
The Missionary Position
Mormonism will affect the foreign policies of Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman -- just not in the way you might expect.
BY MOLLY WORTHEN | JUNE 13, 2011
Think Again: Al Qaeda
The world's most notorious terrorist organization was never quite what Americans thought it was -- and Osama bin Laden's death doesn't mean that it's down for the count.
BY DANIEL BYMAN | MAY 3, 2011
What Not to Wear
Five countries where the term "fashion police" is meant literally.
BY SUZANNE MERKELSON, JOSHUA E. KEATING | APRIL 11, 2011
The Deadliest Village in Russia
At journey's end, reaching the heart of the North Caucasus's Islamist insurgency -- and getting arrested.
BY TOM PARFITT | APRIL 1, 2011
There Will Be No Uprising in Saudi Arabia
Contrary to what you might have heard, the kingdom is hardly ripe for revolution.
BY NAWAF OBAID | MARCH 10, 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
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
Strait Talk
Barack Obama doesn't want you to know about it, but his administration just made the biggest move in more than a decade to open up Cuba.
BY ARTURO LOPEZ-LEVY | JANUARY 31, 2011
Close Encounters of the Buddhist Kind
An exclusive look inside a booming multibillion-dollar, evangelical, global Thai cult.
CAPTIONS BY RON GLUCKMAN, PHOTOS BY LUKE DUGGLEBY | JANUARY 20, 2011
Why Do Coptic Christians Celebrate Christmas on a Different Day?
Because they're using a different calendar.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 4, 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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