Science & Technology

Gray Matter

How to fight Chinese cyber attacks without starting a cold war.

BY JOEL BRENNER | MARCH 8, 2013

It's Not You, It's Me

America's nukes are designed to comfort us, not scare the enemy.

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | MARCH 8, 2013

Inside the Black Box

How the NSA is helping companies fight back against Chinese hackers.

BY MARC AMBINDER | MARCH 7, 2013

Mad Libs: War Edition

FP asked more than 70 top military thinkers to fill in the blanks on the world's global conflicts -- from the drone wars to the budget wars.

MARCH 4, 2013

The Case for Big Brother

A little government monitoring can be a good thing.

BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 4, 2013

The Things They Carried: The Congolese Rebel

Maj. John Imani Nzenze, an M23 rebel commander, reveals what's in his camouflage backpack. 

INTERVIEW AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | MARCH 4, 2013

You Can't Hack a Steakhouse

What China doesn't get about how Washington works.

BY HALEY BARBOUR, ED ROGERS | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The First Rule of Drone Club

The bad lessons Turkey learned from Obama's war from above.

BY AARON STEIN | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The New Westphalian Web

The future of the Internet may lie in the past. And that's not a good thing.

BY KATHERINE MAHER | FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Limited Partnership

No, North Korea did not just test an Iranian nuke.

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | 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

Apocalypse Soon

The end is nigh! And I'm not ready.

BY ROSA BROOKS | FEBRUARY 21, 2013

#Unfollow

The case for kicking terrorists off Twitter.

BY J.M. BERGER | FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Chinese Hackers Are Getting Dangerously Good at English

And they're coming to an inbox near you.

BY MELISSA CHAN | FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The Cool War

Cold War technology made war unthinkable. Cool War technology makes it irresistible.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Why America Reserves the Right to Nuke You First

And why it shouldn't.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Cyber-Gang Warfare

State-sponsored militias are coming to a server near you.

BY RICHARD B. ANDRES | FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Barack Obama's Lincoln Moment

What the commander of America's first modern war tells us about our first post-modern war.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Startup Sovereigns

Statehood ain't what it used to be.

BY PARAG KHANNA, SAWSAN GAD | FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Twitter Devolutions

How social media is hurting the Arab Spring.

BY MARC LYNCH | FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Diplomatic Code

Why does the Pentagon get all the cyber money?

BY TIM MAURER | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

China and Japan's Wikipedia War

How a showdown over a group of remote islands in the East China Sea is heating up online.

BY PETE HUNT | FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Size Matters

The miniaturization of U.S. foreign policy.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What to Expect from a North Korean Nuclear Test

Pyongyang is about to make some more trouble. Here's what to look for when Kim Jong Un debuts his new bomb.

BY SIEGFRIED S. HECKER | FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Doomsday Preppers

At a new center in Cambridge, a philosopher, an astronomer, and a software pioneer are looking for ways to save humanity from itself.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 4, 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

Buzz Bomb

Why everyone's wrong about Assad's zombie gas.

BY JEFFREY LEWIS | JANUARY 25, 2013

Drones in Our Time

Why Obama was fibbing about America's wars coming to an end.

BY ROSA BROOKS | JANUARY 23, 2013

Turing Test

Can you beat the father of artificial intelligence at Monopoly?

BY MICHAEL PECK | JANUARY 18, 2013

The Three Most Dangerous Things About Threat Lists

What the pundits and analysts don't tell you.

BY AMY ZEGART | JANUARY 16, 2013