Guarding Route Jeep

Haunting photos of the young Afghan recruits charged with guarding one of the country's -- and the Taliban's -- crucial supply routes.

BY SUCHITRA VIJAYAN | MAY 16, 2012

Haunting photos of the young Afghan recruits charged with guarding one of the country's -- and the Taliban's -- crucial supply routes.

Suchitra Vijayan is as a documentary photographer, writer and graduate student at Yale, where she studies Afghanistan and Pakistan.You can see more of her work at www.suchtra vijayan.com.

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Accounts and Accountability and Sea Monsters

How The Avengers explains the world.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MAY 16, 2012

How The Avengers explains the world.

Photo by Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

SUBJECTS: OBAMA ADMINISTRATION, NORTH AMERICA, EUROPE

David Rothkopf, CEO and editor at large of Foreign Policy, is author of Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government -- and the Reckoning That Lies Ahead.

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Israel's Image Revisted

What's driving Israel's very bad PR?

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MAY 16, 2012

What's driving Israel's very bad PR?

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SUBJECTS: MIDDLE EAST, ARAB WORLD

Aaron David Miller is a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His forthcoming book is titled Can America Have Another Great President? "Reality Check," his column for ForeignPolicy.com, runs weekly.

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The Rise of Europe's Private Internet Police

Activists are fighting to rein them in.

BY REBECCA MACKINNON | MAY 16, 2012

Activists are fighting to rein them in.

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SUBJECTS: INTERNET, SECURITY, EUROPE

Rebecca MacKinnon is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation, a former CNN bureau chief in Tokyo and Beijing, co-founder of the citizen media network Global Voices, and author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom.

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Portrait of The Hague as a Young Court

As Ratko Mladic goes on trial for war crimes at The Hague today, graphic artist Joe Sacco takes us back to the international tribunal's early days.

BY JOE SACCO | MAY 16, 2012

As Ratko Mladic goes on trial for war crimes at The Hague today, graphic artist Joe Sacco takes us back to the international tribunal's early days.

Joe Sacco is a Maltese citizen currently residing in Portland, Oregon, where he makes his living as a cartoonist and journalist. A collection of Sacco’s work, Journalism, will be published by Metropolitan Books in June 2012.

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The Global Middle Class Is Bigger Than We Thought

A new way of measuring prosperity has enormous implications for geopolitics and economics.

BY SHIMELSE ALI, URI DADUSH | MAY 16, 2012

A new way of measuring prosperity has enormous implications for geopolitics and economics.

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SUBJECTS: ECONOMICS, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS, FINANCE, G-20, AFRICA, NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH ASIA, EAST ASIA, EUROPE, LATIN AMERICA

Shimelse Ali is an economist, and Uri Dadush a senior associate, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A longer version of this paper will be published on Carnegie's website.