Feature
List of Feature articles
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MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Crunching the Numbers on the GOP Candidates
What the polls tell us about the Republican candidates on foreign policy.
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546926_111117_syriagraph1dbk5.jpg The Grim Toll of Syria’s Violence
Syria is entering the bloodiest phase yet of its eight-month-old uprising. But is the death toll enough to bring down President Bashar al-Assad?
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-/AFP/Getty Images Ayatollah for a Day
I war-gamed an Israeli strike on Iran -- and it got ugly.
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547478_twitteratilist_110014362_resized_02.jpg The Global Thinker Twitterati
A who's who of the foreign-policy Twitterverse in 2011.
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547647_laos2.jpg The End of the Innocents
How America's longtime man in Southeast Asia, Jim Thompson, fought to stop the CIA's progression from a small spy ring to a large paramilitary agency -- and was never seen again.
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Piero Pomponi/Newsmakers Plan Afghanistan
Why the Colombia model -- even if it means drug war and armed rebellion -- is the best chance for U.S. success in Central Asia.
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Getty Images What Does Siri Know About the World?
We asked the iPhone 4S's personal assistant, Siri, some of the toughest questions in international politics. At least she knows more than Herman Cain.
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EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images U.N. Rips Iran’s Human Rights Record in New Report
An important reminder that the Islamic Republic's greatest victims are its own citizens.
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Laura Stanton The World According to the GOP
What do the 2012 Republican candidates have to say about foreign policy?
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548749_111006_backpage_1-rsz5.jpg America at Dusk
FP asked a panel of writers from around the world to tell us what the United States is doing wrong. We got an earful.
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A Vietnamese border guard looks out toward the USS John S. McCain at anchor in the costal city of Da Nang. America’s Pacific Century
The future of politics will be decided in Asia, not Afghanistan or Iraq, and the United States will be right at the center of the action.
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Donald Miralle/Getty Images The Myth of American Exceptionalism
The idea that the United States is uniquely virtuous may be comforting to Americans. Too bad it's not true.
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549026_111010_America_Friedman_cr_LOC-rsz2.jpg America Really Was That Great
… But that doesn't mean we are now.