Science & Technology
No Need for Speed
Save your money, United Nations -- the developing world doesn't need broadband Internet to get ahead.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 16, 2011
Freedom #Fail
Why we shouldn't expect Facebook and its Silicon Valley peers to act in the world's best interests.
BY JILLIAN C. YORK | APRIL 29, 2011
Out of Eden
Pre-modern lifestyles were fraught with violence, disease, and uncertainty. We should be happy that indigenous societies are increasingly leaving them behind.
BY CHARLES KENNY | APRIL 26, 2011
A Tale of Two Viruses
The dangerous business of comparing cyber and bio attacks to each other.
MAY/JUNE 2011
WikiLosers
Julian Assange said WikiLeaks would change the world. At the very least, it changed these people's lives forever.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 25, 2011
Nuclear Winner
Environmentalist icon turned nuclear-power booster Stewart Brand tells Foreign Policy why, even after the Fukushima disaster, he thinks nuclear is the energy of the future.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 22, 2011
The Civil War That Killed Cholera
Why the best ideas for fighting some diseases may come from poor countries, not rich ones.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 21, 2011
Atomic Dogs
Fukushima wasn't the only nuclear accident waiting to happen. From Bulgaria to New York, here are five other nuclear power plants to keep an eye on.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 17, 2011
Shakedown Artists
Earthquake expert Michael K. Lindell explains why the Japanese are better than the rest of us at preparing for earthquakes -- and what we can learn from them.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 11, 2011
Identification, Please
In the developed world, high-tech personal IDs are the stuff of Orwellian dystopia. But for everyone else, they could be a path to a happier, healthier, less precarious life.
BY JAMIE HOLMES | MARCH 8, 2011
Dam Nation
When Beijing counts hydropower as "green energy," it's doing the environment -- and its economy -- no favor.
BY PETER BOSSHARD | MARCH 8, 2011
FP Book Club: Charles Kenny's Getting Better
An FP discussion on contributing editor Charles Kenny's new book: Are we winning the global war on human suffering?
MARCH 7, 2011
Oman's Days of Rage
A sleepy little sultanate erupts in unexpected anger.
BY JACKIE SPINNER | FEBRUARY 28, 2011
Winning the Battle, Losing the War
The Pentagon may have come out of Barack Obama's 2012 budget mostly unscathed, but the military's salad days of limitless spending are over.
BY GORDON ADAMS | FEBRUARY 15, 2011
This Week at War: Lost in Space
Can the Pentagon afford to protect its orbital interests?
BY ROBERT HADDICK | FEBRUARY 11, 2011
Fiber Cons
You don't need to be superfast to be super-competitive -- but try telling that to the governments sinking billions into fiber-optic networks.
BY CHARLES KENNY, ROBERT KENNY | JANUARY 31, 2011
I Was a Rare Earths Day Trader
How a naval confrontation in the South China Sea created a global investment bubble -- and cost me half my life savings.
BY JASON MIKLIAN | JANUARY 21, 2011
Tilting at Wind Turbines
Americans are fretting over China's green leap forward. They shouldn't be.
BY MICHAEL LEVI | JANUARY 19, 2011
Big Is Beautiful
Financial access is key to helping the world's poor -- and tech-savvy big banks, not microcreditors, are our best hope for providing it.
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 18, 2011
The First Twitter Revolution?
Not so fast. The Internet can take some credit for toppling Tunisia's government, but not all of it.
BY ETHAN ZUCKERMAN | JANUARY 14, 2011
The AK-47 of the Cell-Phone World
Forget iPhones and Droids: The Nokia 1100 is the most important cell phone on the planet.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Weird Science
Most of what we know about how the world thinks comes from research on a handful of American undergrads.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Electric Company
Gen. Wesley Clark and Roger Kemp argue that a new superbattery isn't enough to make the electric car viable.
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011
Strange Days, Indeed
Scenes from Julian Assange's WikiCircus in London.
BY COREY PEIN | DECEMBER 15, 2010
Let There Be Light
How a new kind of bulb will transform the developing world.
BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 13, 2010
Long Shots
Why throwing money at today's clean-energy technologies could keep us from discovering tomorrow's.
BY VINOD KHOSLA | DECEMBER 10, 2010
How We Got Trapped by Carbon
Vaclav Smil, Global Thinker No. 49, tells Foreign Policy's Charles Homans how the West got tricked into thinking it could overcome its gasoline addiction.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | DECEMBER 2010
The Stories You Missed in 2010
Ten events and trends that were overlooked this year, but may be leading the headlines in 2011.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 2010
Death by a Thousand Cuts
See all those security lines? Just because al Qaeda's recent attacks haven't succeeded doesn't mean the terrorist group's overall strategy is failing.
BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS | NOVEMBER 23, 2010
Kill Screen
Is the new crop of hyperrealistic military video games driving home the reality of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, or simply exploiting them?
BY MATTHEW SHAER | OCTOBER 27, 2010
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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