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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The List: Products in Peril
We know that technology moves fast. The once essential landline telephone already looks like a relic from a bygone era, but it’s not the only familiar product that has become an endangered species. In this week’s List, FP highlights four goods that might not live to see the next generation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mission Accomplished
Everyone in Washington seemed to agree that the Iraq Study Group’s ideas for fixing Iraq were duds. So, four months after many pundits and politicians accused Baker and Hamilton of failing to think big, why are the White House and Capitol Hill rushing to implement the very recommendations of the ISG that they once dismissed?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: Japan’s Sex Slaves Problem
Japan’s struggling prime minister provoked a firestorm of controversy recently when he said there was no proof that the Japanese military kidnapped women to work as sex slaves during World War II. FP asked Gerald Curtis, a top expert on Japanese politics, why Japan has so much trouble moving beyond its past.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Case Against George W. Bush
With prominent Republican Senators speaking out against a scandal-plagued White House, talk of impeachment has moved from the margins to the mainstream. That may seem politically far-fetched, but in fact, there is a strong case to be made.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The List: Time Bombs
Peering into the future is a tricky business. Soothsayers and prophets risk being proven embarrassingly wrong, or going uncredited if their predictions avert catastrophe. With that caveat aside, this week’s FP List takes a look at five dates that just might change the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Europe’s 50th Anniversary Clown Show
The European Union’s absurd birthday bash says more about where the EU is headed than 1,000 bland pronouncements from the bureaucrats and politicians in Brussels ever could.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: The Ethanol Effect
Ethanol is finally taking off. But the resulting boom in corn prices is driving up the cost of food around the world and threatening to destabilize Latin America. FP asked Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute to explain what’s going wrong—and how to fix it.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 We Got Tubed—Again
The Bush administration didn’t just hype flawed intelligence on Iraq. It got North Korea wrong, too. Now Kim Jong Il has the bomb—and the last laugh.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The List: The World’s Most Controversial Religious Sites
Politics and religion can be a deadly concoction. Nowhere is that more true than at the world’s holiest shrines, temples, mosques, and churches. From Japan to South Carolina, FP takes a look at some of the world’s most contentious religious sites—and the politicians who inflame their faithful followers.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: A Rational Choice
Pressure is mounting on the international community to stop Iran’s nuclear program, and key U.S. lawmaker Tom Lantos says he knows how to do it. He’d present countries with a choice: Either you’re with the United States, or you’re with Iran. Find out why in this Seven Questions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Numbed by Numbers
People don’t ignore mass killings because they lack compassion. Psychological research suggests it’s grim statistics themselves that paralyze us into inaction.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The List: New Insurgent Tactics
Nearly four years into the insurgency, U.S. forces are struggling to respond to a constantly adapting enemy. The insurgents have just added a handful of new tactics to their playbook. FP takes a look at some of these deadly additions.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Seven Questions: A Much-Needed Correction
Recently, stock markets around the world took a nasty spill. They’ve firmed up since then, and everything seems back to normal. But Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, isn’t so optimistic. He tells FP why the markets may be due for another fall.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 A Different Kind of Great Game
Are China and the United States heading for a showdown over Africa?
