
Introducing … The Most Dynamic Cities of 2025
An exclusive look at the 75 powerhouses of the coming urban revolution.
From Chongqing to Shenzhen, 29 of the world's 75 most dynamic cities are in a single country: China.
Weapons of Mass Urban Destruction
China's cities are making the same mistake America's did on the path to superpower status.
BY PETER CALTHORPE
Cities of the Future: Made in China
From traffic-jumping buses to electric taxis, China is at the forefront of the world's flashiest urban innovations.
BY DUSTIN ROASA
'Twitter Is My City': An Exclusive Interview with Ai Weiwei
INTERVIEW BY JONATHAN LANDRETH
Beijing's best-known dissident, architect, and creative provocateur tells Jonathan Landreth what's wrong with China's frenetic capital.
The Rise and Fall and Rise of New Shanghai
Is history repeating itself in China's glittering global city?
BY DANIEL BROOK
Guangdong Communist Party boss Wang Yang is the great hope of China's urban intelligentsia. Is he about to make the big time?
BY GEOFF DYER
Madeleine Albright explains what role the United Nations should play in today's ever-more-tangled global conflicts.
BY MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT
The FP Survey: The United Nations
Top experts rate the United Nations' biggest obstacles.
Susan Rice calls the plays for Barack Obama at the United Nations. Could she lead his foreign-policy team next? Should she?
BY JAMES TRAUB
The president's Republican critics are dead wrong. The stimulus worked.
BY MICHAEL GRUNWALD
Forget October bombshells. The real surprise in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign will come when disaffected voters shun the polls.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF
BY DAN ARIELY
The New New Normal: Why Bad Politics = Even Worse Markets
BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN
Anthropology of an Idea: Targeted Killings
BY URI FRIEDMAN
BY PARAG KHANNA AND AARON SMITH
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Epiphanies from Salman Rushdie
INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER
The Optimist: In Praise of Slums
BY CHARLES KENNY
BY ANNA BADKHEN
The 4 key points of Barack Obama's counterterrorism speech

BY JOHN HUDSON
Can chaos theory teach us anything about international relations?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
America's natural gas boom is bad news for China
BY CHARLES R. MORRIS
Wait, there are riots in Sweden?

BY ELIAS GROLL
Syrian opposition leader proposes peace deal

BY DAVID KENNER
Obama's counterterrorism policy, by the numbers

BY ELIAS GROLL
On suicide, sexual harassment, and command: A Naval officer's experience
BY 'A. NAVAL OFFICER'