Observation Deck
List of Observation Deck articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What @Snowden Told Me About the NSA’s Cyberweapons
From MonsterMind to TreasureMap, we’ve only just scratched the surface of the United States’ hyper-clandestine offensive capabilities.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Requiem for the Macrosaurus
The beginning of the end of the Jurassic Period of economics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Fare Trade
Elite chefs are swapping kitchens, and shaping the world’s culinary and cultural future.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Meltdown of the Global Order
Rising sea levels. Bigger storms. Withering crops. How climate change is transforming the ground rules of power politics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Why Cuba Needs to Follow the Singapore Model
Fifty years ago Lee Kuan Yew turned a tiny rock in the sea into one of Asia’s strongest economies. Castro could do the same in the Caribbean.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Missed Calls
Is the NSA lying about its failure to prevent 9/11?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Writing From a War Zone Doesn’t Make You Anne Frank
The 15-year-old diarist was a singular talent. Let’s stop pretending every young woman tweeting her life under fire is doing the same.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How Greece Fell into the Eurozone Trap
In the wake of World War II, peaceniks and dreamers began looking for a way to knit a war-torn continent together. Now Athens is paying the price.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Would Thomas Jefferson Do…With the CIA?
Since 1805, U.S. intelligence agencies have been taking out Middle Eastern enemies and failing to predict the next crisis. Isn’t it time for an overhaul?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Turkey’s Reckless Gas Game
Europe hoped Turkey could help the continent wean itself off Russian fuel. But Ankara might have other plans.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 China Is the New Power Broker in the Persian Gulf
Oil is transforming the country’s foreign policy. Can the United States handle the consequences?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Reading This Magazine Could Land You in Jail
The United Kingdom and Australia hope to squash AQAP’s slick online magazine with extreme censorship laws. Could the United States be next?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Should Putin Let the Ruble Bottom Out?
The Russian president is just the latest in a long line of national leaders with a sentimental, ill-fated attachment to propping up their countries’ currencies.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is Russian Literature Dead?
How the land of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy became a book lover's afterthought.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Is a Nuclear Iran a Threat or a Distraction?
Why the Obama administration’s focus on negotiations to stop Tehran’s nuke program overlooks the real problems in the Middle East.
