Passport
List of Passport articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Death Penalty Is Having Quite a Moment — And That May Help Efforts to Abolish It
The confluence of debates about the death penalty around the world shows the degree to which it's persevered even as most countries have eliminated it as a punishment.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Charlie Hebdo Cartoonist Says He’s Giving Up Lampooning Mohammed
On the tortured debate over visual representations of Prophet Mohammed.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Exclusive Interview: Kiev’s Mayor On Corruption, Gazprom, And Dirty Politics
In an exclusive interview with Foreign Policy, Vitali Klitschko unveils his vision for a new Kiev.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Saudi Shake Up: Who’s Out and Who’s In
Saudi Arabia's King Salman shook up his cabinet on Wednesday. Learn who's out and who's in with this Foreign Policy explainer.
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Mussolini_e_Petacci_a_Piazzale_Loreto,_1945 Did the Brutal Death of Mussolini Contribute to Hitler’s Suicide?
Seventy years ago on Tuesday, partisans in the backwoods of northern Italy summarily executed Benito Mussolini after they happened to foil the dictator’s attempted escape across the Swiss border.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Nigerians See Cynicism in Army’s Speculation of Chibok Girls’ Rescue
The Nigerian Army announced Tuesday that it rescued hundreds of women and girls from a Boko Haram camp in northern Nigeria. But its decision to clarify that it wasn't clear whether some were the missing Chibok girls sparked anger on social media.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 What Can a Poor City Really Do to Prepare for an Earthquake?
Earthquakes present a unique problem for cities with a lack of resources.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Islamic State Supporters Urge Baltimore Rioters to Join Extremist Cause
The Islamic State may believe in killing all those who don’t adhere to its own form of Sunnism. But it is a model of racial equality compared with the United States -- or so say its supporters who have taken to Twitter to capitalize on the Baltimore riots.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 These Are the Most Influential World Leaders on Twitter (and Why That Doesn’t Matter)
Barack Obama is the most-followed account among world leaders.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 How the Chinese Web Came to Believe the CIA Tried to Assassinate Snowden
According to Chinese conspiracy theorists, a PLA unit in Macau stopped the alleged plot.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Scandal Roiling New Zealand: The Prime Minister Is Pulling Ponytails
For Freud, some men’s desire to cut off women’s hair represented symbolic castration. Who knows what it represents for New Zealand Prime Minister John Key.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Burundi Violence Confounds U.S. Optimism About African Democracy
Western observers were quick to call Nigeria's smooth power transition a stepping stone for Africa. But nations facing different challenges are not finding their election seasons to be any easier than before.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Online Jihadis Call for Attacks on Cartoonists in United States, Australia
Jihadis cite the Charlie Hebdo attack as an example for future terror missions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 U.S. Assumes Arctic Council Leadership Amid Increasing Tension in the Far-North
As Washington steps back in the Arctic, other countries are investing in their military capabilities there.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 11 Greek Puns and Portmanteaus of Tomorrow, Today!
Get ready for the Gremageddon, the Grexodus, and the Grepidemic.
