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List of Feature articles
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546619_111128_Egyptslideshow1_picnik5.jpg Winning Back the Revolution
Most Egyptians want economic recovery, not more protests, according to national Gallup surveys conducted over the past eight months. Do activists have any chance of winning back the street?
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547405_111110_BankersWhobrokepk22.jpg The Global Thinkers’ Book Club
Want to think like the world's best minds? Start by reading like them. The FP Global Thinkers' 20 most recommended titles.
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ALI DIA/AFP/Getty Images End of the Argument
How we won the debate over stopping genocide.
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546810_aiweiwei_02.jpg Life in a Glass House
A glimpse behind the closely watched door to Ai Weiwei’s studio.
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Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images It Ain’t Easy Being a Central Banker
Spare a thought for the bureaucrats stuck with one of the most important, and miserable, jobs in the world.
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546789_111121_survey_15.jpg The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd
For the third year in a row, Foreign Policy polled the world's top Global Thinkers to ask everything from how Barack Obama's really doing on the economy to what the biggest threats to global stability are in a year of revolutions. (Hint: There's not a lot of bullishness in this group.) So take a look at what our brilliant collection of Nobel winners, paradigm-shattering authors, and leaders from around the world has to say about this momentous year and what's in store for 2012.
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FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP/Getty Images What Do Saudi Women Want?
It's not as simple as driving, voting, and property.
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Majid Saeedi/Getty Images The Big Think Behind the Arab Spring
Do the Middle East's revolutions have a unifying ideology?
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KIMIHIRO HOSHINO/AFP/Getty Images Does Facebook Have a Foreign Policy?
The social networking giant has the power to change the world for the better. But does it want to?
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SIMON MAINA/AFP/Getty Images A History of (Non)Violence
Why humans are becoming more peaceful.
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Wikipedia Commons John Stuart Mill, Dead Thinker of the Year
The 19th century thinker still has much to teach us on liberty.
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Wikipedia Commons 6 Ideas for the Ash Heap of History
The just-plain-wrong notions that (hopefully) bit the dust this year.
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Global Thinkers, Fill in the Blanks
The world's smartest people tell us what to think about Barack Obama, the Arab Spring, and the dizzying events of 2011.
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ANTONY DICKSON/AFP/Getty Images The Mall of the World
What a Hong Kong shopping complex tells us about the true nature of globalization.
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Politics Stops at the Water’s Edge
After two foreign-policy debates, we still have no idea what most Republican presidential candidates would do about the actual issues facing America abroad.
