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A look back at the last four decades of world affairs.

This time it's for real.

A special anniversary report challenging the world's most dangerous thinking.

And why don't they go away?

Has the era of global cooperation ended before it began?

Why we're still fighting yesterday's economic war.

Egyptian humor goes where its politics cannot.

In surreal Russia, fake presidential tweets are much more relevant than the real ones.

How Washington stopped worrying and learned to love Saudi Arabia, again.

Who's next in line to lead the House of Saud? King Abdullah, 87, is unwell, having recently traveled to the United States for medical treatment, and speculation is heating up about his replacement. Unfortunately, none of the potential candidates is getting any younger either.

The Swiss-born grandson of the Muslim Brotherhood's founder made his career trying to prove that the West and Islam, secularism and belief, can coexist peacefully. With his George W. Bush-era travel ban revoked, Tariq Ramadan has now journeyed back to the United States, where his faith in faith has been put to the test by a painful year for American Muslims.

Why Washington's support for online democracy is the worst thing ever to happen to the Internet.

Meet the foreign-policy powers for the new GOP congress.

Is France to blame for the Great Depression?

Forget iPhones and Droids: The Nokia 1100 is the most important cell phone on the planet.

Most of what we know about how the world 
thinks comes from research on a handful 
of American undergrads. 


One stat to rule them all.

Market-Leninism lives.

How the Chinese president views the world.

How the land of Genghis Khan became a new 
Gold Rush San Francisco on the steppe.