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The Election 2012 Weekly Report: A post-Gingrich world

Biden goes on the attack, but doesn't ‘stick' the landing Vice President Joe Biden continued to step into his role as the Obama campaign's leading national-security attack dog with a speech at New York University on Thursday that questioned...

Published Fri, Apr 27 2012 1:53 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Report

2012's fatal error

Warning: spoilers to follow. This weekend, against my wife's better judgment, we went to see 2012, and it was everything its fans and critics said it would be: grandiose in ambition, ludicrous in conception, and technically wondrous in execution....

Published Tue, Nov 24 2009 5:50 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Culture, Fun Stuff, G-20

The curious case of Glenn Greenwald vs. Wired magazine

I love a good blog fight as much as anyone, but after reading several thousand words of accusations and counter accusations being slung between Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald and Wired 's Evan Hansen and Kevin Poulsen, I'm left scratching my head...

Published Wed, Dec 29 2010 7:13 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Media, WikiLeaks

New Face Guard Allows Japanese Women To Eat Burgers Without Shame

Here's your "quirky Japan" story of the day: Apparently, it's very impolite for women there to eat hamburgers in public -- or so says one Japanese fast food chain that hopes to free women from the unbearable shame of opening their mouths...

Published Fri, Nov 08 2013 7:13 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Japan, East Asia, Culture, Women, Food/Agriculture, Business

Chinese hackers stole Van Rompuy e-mails

Bloomberg's Michael Riley and Dune Lawrence report : The hackers clocked in at precisely 9:23 a.m. Brussels time on July 18 last year, and set to their task. In just 14 minutes of quick keyboard work, they scooped up the e-mails of the president of...

Published Mon, Jul 30 2012 9:58 AM by FP Passport

The Carter letter: reactions

It's not every day that former presidents write us letters. And here at FP , we knew we had quite a document on our hands when former Jimmy Carter took the unusual step of writing in to defend his legacy in response to Walter Russell Mead's article...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 11:32 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Media, Obama Administration, Foreign Policy magazine

The best photograph of Cyprus's nonexistent bank run

We here at Foreign Policy had been preparing for the day Cyprus's banks reopened by collecting pictures of bank runs from around the world -- on the chance that this morning we'd wake up to long lines of frantic depositors. But with headlines...

Published Thu, Mar 28 2013 12:20 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Europe, Economics, Finance, Business

Iowa and Texas to OSCE election observers: Stand back or face arrest

Last week we noted Florida Rep. and Senate candidate Connie Mack's freakout over the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe -- which he seemed to confuse with the U.N. -- sending observers to monitor U.S. elections. Now, Politico reports...

Published Wed, Oct 31 2012 12:01 PM by FP Passport

Russian officials explore ways to cash in on meteor strike

When a 10-ton meteorite exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia on Friday, Feb. 15, it injured more than 1,500 people, caused $30 million in damage, and sparked nearly 3,000 financial aid applications from residents. Now, it seems, Russians -- including government...

Published Wed, Feb 27 2013 10:35 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Science & Technology, Russia, Eastern Europe, Internet, Fun Stuff, Cool

Beware of Mirages - By Ellen Bork

The Obama Administration is pursuing closer ties with the military in Burma -- a policy that could undermine efforts to build democracy. Read More...

Published Mon, Nov 26 2012 10:22 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Human Rights, Diplomacy, Obama Administration, Military, Southeast Asia, Default, Free, Web Exclusive, North Africa, Democracy, Argument, Democracy Lab, Democracy Lab Top Story

German official blames China for Somalia’s famine

With east Africa in the grip of famine after its worst drought in 60 years , Germany's Africa policy coordinator has fingered an unlikely culprit: China. Agence France-Presse reports : Guenter Nooke told the daily Frankfurter Rundschau it was clear...

Published Fri, Jul 29 2011 3:23 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Africa, China, Germany, Food/Agriculture

The year in take-downs

The year's best takedowns, journalistic or otherwise. Put yours in the comments. 10. Glenn Greenwald on Jeffrey Rosen's profile of Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor in The New Republic : "[Rosen's] smear of Sonia Sotomayor's intellect...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 4:58 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Media, Internet

Former Rwandan Official Worries That Kagame's Administration is Backsliding into Mass Murder

Do Americans really want to cut foreign aid?

This chart from John Sides at the Monkey Cage made the rounds on the blogosphere yesterday: Several on the Internet noted the inherent contradiction: Most conservatives want a smaller government, yet they also do not want to cut anything -- save for foreign...

Published Fri, Feb 26 2010 12:54 PM by FP Passport

Nicholas Sarkozy's apology tour

French President Nicholas Sarkozy has, in the past, shown little interest in discussing the darker periods of French history. His summed up his attitude while visiting former colony Algeria two years ago, saying : "Young people on either side of...

Published Thu, Feb 25 2010 10:47 AM by FP Passport