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Think you have what it takes to join the Islamic resistance? Here’s how Hamas militants in Gaza have been spending their summer.

Will Beijing be clean in time for the Olympics? Scientist David G. Streets, whose work influenced China’s cleanup efforts, tells FP that the city’s fate lies with “the weather gods.”

Why Bob Gates’s new plan to fund academic research is just what the doctorate ordered.

Now that former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic is stewing in The Hague, what other notorious war criminals are still on the loose?

When Foreign Policy and Prospect magazine asked readers to vote for the world’s top public intellectual, one man won in a landslide: Islamic scholar Fethullah Gülen, an inspirational leader to millions of followers around the world and persona non grata to many in his native Turkey, where some consider him a threat to the country’s secular order. In a rare interview, Gülen speaks to FP about terrorism, political ambitions, and why his movement is so misunderstood.

In his July/August cover story, “The Next Asian Miracle,” Yasheng Huang argues that the common story we’ve heard about the dramatic rise of China and India is wrong. Naturally, readers had some thoughts of their own. Now, he answers their questions about democracy, growth, and whether governments ought to prioritize schools or skyscrapers.

It’s the most fundamental law of economic gravity: What goes up must eventually come down. Maverick oil analyst Ed Morse predicts that oil prices will keep tumbling, and tells FP that he would not be surprised if prices dip below $100 a barrel before election day.

How a golden opportunity to showcase China’s rise turned into a public-relations nightmare.

International sporting events are about nothing if not national pride. Here are five countries whose Olympic performance leaves their countrymen with little to celebrate.

From massive construction budgets to an unprecedented security lockdown, the Beijing Games are already Olympian in proportion.

Having trouble keeping track of everything that happened on Barack Obama’s whirlwind world tour? FP is here to help.