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A look at the Internet's lurid underbelly -- your one-stop shop for weapons, drugs, and illegal pornography. 

The ugly consequences of expiring budgets.

What crocodile-infested rivers and hovercrafts tell us about how people value their own safety.

What do you carry when you've left a life behind?

If the West doesn't shape up, the rest of the world will just go around it.

The spy chief who nailed Osama bin Laden reflects on Syria, Iran, and the most dysfunctional U.S. Congress in recent memory. 

Why ladder-climbers might make the best do-gooders.

The eurozone lived to fight another day. But a new battle is brewing.

Public officials from Beijing to D.C. are failing to rise to the world's challenges. That's where FP's Global Thinkers come in.

The technology uncovering humanity's past -- and perhaps its future.

Pope Francis brings the freshness of the Gospel to the Catholic Church.

The secretary of state's go-big-or-go-home foreign policy.

I'd rather risk becoming a terrorist's victim than live under a surveillance state.

Forget Tesla. Forget the Hyperloop. Elon Musk is all about space.

The 10 best books, according to China's ruling elite.

The case for sending America's unemployed abroad.

Welcome to Dharamsala, ground zero in China's cyberwar.

They aren't just about Mexico or drugs anymore.

What Late Antiquity says about the 21st century and the Syrian crisis.

How investor irrationality and last year's biggest hit combined to send an obscure semiconductor company's stock price surging.