Science & Technology
Birdbrained
Why Twitter will regret its misguided flirtation with censorship.
BY URI FRIEDMAN | JANUARY 27, 2012
Fly Me to the Moon
The Republican establishment would probably prefer that Newt Gingrich spend less time talking about lunar mining and space hotels. But the former House speaker may be the only true free-marketer in outer space.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | JANUARY 25, 2012
The Mall of the World
What a Hong Kong shopping complex tells us about the true nature of globalization.
BY GORDON MATHEWS | NOVEMBER 25, 2011
Twitter vs. the KGB
Can social media save a journalist in trouble in a place like Kyrgyzstan?
BY NATALIA YEFIMOVA-TRILLING | NOVEMBER 11, 2011
Love and Robots
Artificial intelligence expert David Levy says relationships with robots might be even more complicated than Ayesha and Parag Khanna assume.
NOVEMBER 2011
Wanted: Smarter Patients
The key to improving medical care in the developing world isn't better doctors -- it's educating everyone else.
BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 3, 2011
Is There a Map to the Future?
The former head of the U.S. National Intelligence Council explains why governments try -- and fail -- to see over the horizon.
BY ROBERT HUTCHINGS | AUGUST 31, 2011
Cloudy with a Chance of Insurgency
Does extreme weather cause war? Don't count on it.
BY CHARLES KENNY | AUGUST 29, 2011
Little Is the New Big
From Angry Birds to crowd-sourced science, the "micromultinational" corporation is here.
BY SOPHIA JONES | AUGUST 19, 2011
How the West Was Drilled
From Alberta to the Brazilian Coast, a tour of the new American oil frontier that could eclipse the Middle East.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | AUGUST 17, 2011
The FP Survey: The Internet
You can't talk about the future without talking about the thing that's shaping the future the most. Some 20 years on, the Internet has upended entrenched business models, opened up a world of information to people all over the globe, and possibly even helped topple a dictator or two. But is the open web in danger? As 24/7 connectivity becomes an ever more inextricable part of our daily lives, FP asked some of the world's top experts to tell us where the Net is headed next.
SEPT/OCT 2011
Think Before You Cut
Ten simple rules for how to slash the Pentagon's budget without endangering U.S. national security.
BY P.W. SINGER | AUGUST 11, 2011
Mission Not Accomplished
Reports of al Qaeda's demise have been greatly exaggerated.
BY CHRISTOPHER HEFFELFINGER | AUGUST 5, 2011
This Fight Ain't Over
Think the debt ceiling gridlock was ugly? Congress is just getting warmed up. Here are eight more foreign-policy battles right around the corner.
BY JOSH ROGIN | AUGUST 4, 2011
Red, Delicious, and Rotten
How Apple conquered China and learned to think like the Communist Party.
BY CHRISTINA LARSON | AUGUST 1, 2011
Greening It Alone
The world is building a low-carbon global economy -- with or without the United States.
BY CHARLES KENNY | AUGUST 1, 2011
The Abortion Trap
How America's obsession with abortion hurts families everywhere.
BY MARA HVISTENDAHL | JULY 26, 2011
A Thousand Points of Light
When it comes to bringing electricity to the developing world, small is beautiful.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 11, 2011
Houston, We Have a Problem
The end of the space shuttle program is a big step back for the United States, and a giant leap forward for everyone else.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY 7, 2011
Don't Be Evil
What Google doesn't get about violent extremism -- and how it can do better.
BY WILLIAM MCCANTS | JUNE 30, 2011
Shot in the Dark
The biggest hurdle to eradicating disease isn't access to vaccines -- it's getting people to take them.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 27, 2011
Should We Be Afraid of China's New Aircraft Carrier?
Not yet.
BY ABRAHAM M. DENMARK, ANDREW S. ERICKSON, AND GABRIEL COLLINS | JUNE 27, 2011
Green Shoots in the Killing Fields
Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo believe there's hope for their war-torn country even if no one else does -- and their optimism is starting to get results.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 20, 2011
Why Would Someone Hack the IMF?
To see how the sausage is made.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JUNE 14, 2011
Through Rose-Colored Corrective Lenses
Poor vision is a major hurdle to getting ahead in the developing world. Fortunately, remedies are cheaper and easier -- and more profitable -- than they've ever been before.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 13, 2011
Inpatients Abroad
How do you solve America's health-care woes? Outsource them.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 30, 2011
The Rise of the Red Market
How the best intentions of the medical community accidentally created an international organ-trafficking underground.
BY SCOTT CARNEY | MAY 30, 2011
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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