Science & Technology

Subsidizing Starvation

How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the farm and starving millions of Haitians.

BY MAURA R. O’CONNOR | JANUARY 11, 2013

There's No App for Syria

Why did Apple ban a game on the Syrian civil war?

BY MICHAEL PECK | JANUARY 11, 2013

Civil Savant

How Andrew Marshall has shaped our world.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | JANUARY 7, 2013

The New Monopolies

Have America's big Internet companies become too powerful?

BY DANIEL ALTMAN | JANUARY 7, 2013

Cursed With Plenty

America is on the verge of an energy boom. But will abundant shale gas create more problems than it fixes? 

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | JANUARY 2, 2013

Geek Squad

How behavioral scientists could make Obama's second term a success.

BY RICHARD THALER | JANUARY 2, 2013

Tomorrow's Weapons Today

Five weapons to watch in 2013.

BY JOHN REED | DECEMBER 21, 2012

A Network of Dictators

There's a fight brewing for the future of the Internet.

BY JAMES A. LEWIS | DECEMBER 21, 2012

Radioactive Decay

We can't keep relying on a Vietnam-era treaty to stop nuclear proliferation.

BY YOUSAF BUTT | DECEMBER 19, 2012

Paging Bruce Willis

Whose job is it to stop an asteroid from hitting the Earth?

BY J. DANA STUSTER | DECEMBER 13, 2012

Lost in Cyberspace

Why the State Department’s proposed new Twitter restrictions are a terrible idea.

BY WILL MCCANTS | DECEMBER 10, 2012

You Didn't Build That

Is the future of manufacturing really in America?

BY JAMES MANYIKA, JAANA REMES, LOUIS RASSEY | DECEMBER 7, 2012

The Climate Scofflaw

Is the United States really the impediment to a universal compact on global warming?

BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 7, 2012

We Were Pirates, Too

Why America was the China of the 19th century. 

BY CHARLES R. MORRIS | DECEMBER 5, 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

The FP Global Thinkers Twitterati

A who's who of the foreign-policy Twitterverse in 2012.

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Printing Innovation

Seven 3D-printable objects that will change the world.

BY J. DANA STUSTER | NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Five Myths about the Chinese Internet

The Great Firewall is neither great, nor a firewall. Discuss.

BY EVELINE CHAO | NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Panetta's Wrong About a Cyber 'Pearl Harbor'

The Internet doesn't work that way.

BY JOHN ARQUILLA | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

Rockets' Red Glare

No, Iron Dome does not prove that "Star Wars" was right.

BY YOUSAF BUTT | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

The Trouble with Killer Robots

Why we need to ban fully autonomous weapons systems, before it's too late.

BY BONNIE DOCHERTY | 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

Lights Out

A newly declassified report shows how vulnerable America's electric grid is.

BY DOUGLAS BIRCH | NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Network News

Sandy turned off the lights, the phones, and the heat. A cyber attack could make it all happen again.

BY JOEL BRENNER | NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Climate Course Correction

The world has spent two decades developing policies to combat global warming -- and we have little to show for it.

BY BJØRN LOMBORG | NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Adapt or Die

Still think climate change is a joke?

BY JAMES TRAUB | NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Tell Us the One About the Robots, Mr. President

Want to lead the free world? You'd better figure out what to do about the rise of the machines.

BY PETER W. SINGER | OCTOBER 24, 2012

Rock Stars

Why geologists deserve their own Nobel Prize. 

BY ROBIN M. MILLS | OCTOBER 16, 2012

My Way Or the Huawei

The U.S. government's recent accusations against two Chinese companies are seriously overblown.

BY TREVOR TIMM | OCTOBER 12, 2012

Big Data: A Short History

How we arrived at a term to describe the potential and peril of today's data deluge.

BY URI FRIEDMAN | NOVEMBER 2012