
My Drone War
American drones have changed everything for al Qaeda and its local allies in Pakistan, becoming a fact of life in a secret war that is far from over.

How to Beat Obama
The president is far more vulnerable than he thinks on foreign policy.

Mad Libs: War Edition
What's on the horizon for warfare in 2012? FP asked some of the world's top experts to fill in the blanks.

How Gogol* Explains the Post-Soviet World
(*And Chekhov and Dostoyevsky.) The case for (re)reading Russia's greatest literary classics.

The Body Counter
Meet Patrick Ball, a statistician who's spent his life lifting the fog of war.

Cyberwar Is Already Upon Us
But can it be controlled?

Think Again: Cyberwar
Don't fear the digital bogeyman. Virtual conflict is still more hype than reality.

Collateral Damage
The "war on terror" still casts a long shadow in some unlikely places.

The Obama Doctrine
How the president's drone war is backfiring.

10 Things You Didn’t Know About Drones
When drones were created, how they're used, and what their future looks like.

Mongolia vs. eBay
How countries stack up against global corporations.

Supercitizens and Semistates
The global elites that really run the world.

Inside Power, Inc.
Taking stock of Big Business vs. Big Government.

Hotels for Hacks
Six of the world's most notable "war hotels," in the words of journalists who spent time cooped up in them.

The Ritz-Carlton of Failed States
Welcome to the Serena Hotels, outposts of multi-star luxury in countries with zero-star conditions.

The Things They Carried:The Israeli Settler
A peek inside the bag Knesset member Michael Ben-Ari schleps to work each day in Jerusalem.

Epiphanies from Shimon Peres
The Middle East's real problem is poverty, not politics, says Israel's president.

Within Our Grasp
U.S. presidents try, try, try to make peace in the Middle East.

The ‘Peace Process’: A Short History
Chronicling Israel and Palestine's path to becoming a catchphrase.

Fear Factor
Why is distrust of immigrants so universal?