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List of Feature articles
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Greta Thunberg attends the Youth for Climate march in Brussels on Feb. 21. Sylvain Lefevre/Getty Images Democracy Is the Planet’s Biggest Enemy
Young people care a lot about climate change—but most of them can’t vote. Here’s how governments can adapt to accommodate them.
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Lower Manhattan in New York City on Oct. 30, 2012, after Hurricane Sandy. Eduardo Munoz/Reuters Why Central Banks Need to Step Up on Global Warming
A decade after the world bailed out finance, it’s time for finance to bail out the world.
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Joanne Chory at the Salk Institute. Can ‘Supercharged’ Plants Solve the Climate Crisis?
Crops already suck up a lot of carbon dioxide. One scientist thinks they can do much more.
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Foreign Policy illustration/Getty Images Who Lost Turkey?
The blame for Ankara’s antagonistic stance to Washington lies with both sides, a product of decades of misunderstandings.
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The African Gold restaurant outside North Nicosia serves as a meeting point for the large foreign student body from Nigeria, Cameroon, and Zimbabwe. At Europe’s Edge, Unwanted Migrants Are Stranded in an Unrecognized Country
Scammed by opportunistic agents, African students seeking a future in the EU have ended up stuck in Northern Cyprus—some of them left for dead.
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Local students hold a sign that reads “Save Lamu Women's Movement” in Swahili at a poetry competition in Lamu Town to raise awareness about the effects of coal on the environment on Nov. 29, 2017. When Coal Comes to Paradise
As China pushes clean energy policies at home, it is exporting its high-pollution coal industry to pristine places like Kenya’s Lamu Island—with Nairobi’s seal of approval. Local residents fear it will destroy the environment they depend on.
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Foreign Policy illustration/Madoka Ikegami-Pool/Getty Images/Drew Angerer/Getty Images The Real Origins of the U.S.-China Cold War
The only way to win the next superpower showdown is to understand what exactly caused it.
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An Atlas 5 rocket carrying the U.S. Navy's second Mobile User Objective System satellite launches at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 19, 2013. The New Space Race
The latest front in a return to Cold War rivalry is the effort to build an all-American rocket for military launches.
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1-china-war-us-military-strategy-brian-stauffer-elbridge-colby How to Win America’s Next War
The United States faces great-power enemies. It needs a military focused on fighting them.
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1st Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment, deployed on Operation Nanook-Nunalivut Vanguards of the Thawing Arctic
After two decades of war in the desert, Canadian troops must relearn how to operate in the frozen north.
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1-lead-industrial-espionage-timeline-vallerio-pellegrini The Oldest Game
The very long history of industrial espionage.
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Illustration by Delcan & Company for Foreign Policy The Spycraft Revolution
Changes in technology, politics, and business are all transforming espionage. Intelligence agencies must adapt—or risk irrelevance.
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Eiko Ojala illustration for Foreign Policy The Spies Who Came In From the Continent
How Brexit could spell the end of Britain’s famed advantage in intelligence.
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Eiko Ojala illustration for Foreign Policy The Manufacturer’s Dilemma
To secure itself, the West needs to figure out where all its gadgets are coming from. Here’s why that’s so difficult.
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U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on June 5, 2018. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images)
