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Does America have a corruption problem?

Transparency International's new Corruptions Perceptions Index is out , and it's bad news for the United States: For the first time , America has slipped out of the ranks of the 20 least corrupt countries, falling below Qatar and ranking just...

Published Tue, Oct 26 2010 4:13 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Corruption

Morning Brief: Britain announces biggest spending cuts since WWII

Britain announces biggest spending cuts since WWII Top news: British Exchequer Chancellor George Osborne has announced the British government's most severe cuts to public spending cuts since World War II as part of an austerity push to reduce the...

Published Wed, Oct 20 2010 6:26 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Anonymous leaks FBI-Scotland Yard conference call

Earlier this week, Ars Technica 's Nate Anderson profiled the online hacker collective Anonymous for FP, writing, "when the Anonymous hive gets prodded, the prodder usually finds himself covered with bee stings and begging for mercy." Today's...

Published Fri, Feb 03 2012 9:32 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Eurozone demands more cuts from Greece

Eurozone demands more cuts from Greece Top news: Eurozone finance ministers dismissed a package of $4.3 billion in Greek budget cuts as incomplete, demanding an additional $400 million in cuts to this year's budget. The package was presented by the...

Published Fri, Feb 10 2012 5:15 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

"Our little round-eyed friends will buy anything."

Those wacky Taiwanese animators are back, this time with a biting parody of the infamous " Chinese professor " ad issued by the advocacy group Citizens Against Government Waste. Only this time, instead of a triumphant Communist Party lecturer...

Published Tue, Nov 02 2010 9:40 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: China

Glass half full dept: FP's optimist has one of the year's top ideas

The New York Times Magazine 's Year in Ideas issue and all of it is fascinating and well worth a read. But we were particularly happy to see that our colleague Charles Kenny's notion that 2000-2010 was the greatest decade in human history made...

Published Thu, Dec 16 2010 11:02 AM by FP Passport

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: The Newt Era

Iowa Debate The GOP candidates faced off in Sioux City on Thursday in what will likely be the last primary debate before the Iowa Caucuses. Foreign policy was very much on the agenda. Responding to a question about the downed U.S. drone in Iran and president's...

Published Fri, Dec 16 2011 12:20 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Report

Two funerals, and Weibo

In the interval between when BBC aired reports of Kim Jong Il's death on Monday and when CCTV and other Chinese state media got around to making their own reports in the late morning, the Chinese Internet was already abuzz with news and commentary...

Published Mon, Dec 19 2011 5:47 AM by FP Passport

How real is the mourning in North Korea?

The outpouring of grief in North Korea over the death of Kim Jong Il -- captured in an FP slideshow today -- has many people asking the same question : Are the copious tears shed for the authoritarian ruler real, staged, or -- more unsettling yet -- a...

Published Tue, Dec 20 2011 12:09 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North Korea, East Asia

Morning Brief: Kim Jong Un moves to assert power

Kim Jong Un moves to assert power Top news: A day after Kim Jong Un received mourners and military salutes at a mausoleum housing his father's body, there are signs that Kim Jong Il's son is taking additional steps to secure his leadership of...

Published Wed, Dec 21 2011 5:36 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

What do we know about Kim Jong Un?

With Kim Jong Il having departed this world for the land of pizza pies and Hennessy -- or something -- attention now turns to his son and presumed successor Kim Jong Un. Like his dad, Jong Un's background is largely shrouded in mystery. But here are...

Published Mon, Dec 19 2011 9:53 AM by FP Passport

Bad year for the coconuts

For Foreign Policy 's July/August 2010 issue, featuring our annual Failed States index, Ghanaian economist and writer George Ayittey put together a survey of the world's dictators and tyrants -- or "coconut heads" as he calls them. Suffice...

Published Mon, Dec 19 2011 12:21 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Egypt’s cabinet offers resignation as protests continue

Egypt’s cabinet offers resignation as protests continue Top story: The Egyptian cabinet offered its resignation to the country's military rulers on Monday in response to the swelling protests against military rule, which have now entered their fourth...

Published Tue, Nov 22 2011 4:52 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Herman Cain commits his foreign policy to writing

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 On the campaign trail, Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain consistently distills his foreign policy philosophy to " peace through strength and clarity ," a twist...

Published Mon, Nov 21 2011 10:59 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, Herman Cain, 2012 Election Poster 2

Who you calling persuaded?

Close readers of this New York Times article -- in which a top U.S. official goes on the record to push back against reports suggesting that Israel is about to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities -- noticed right away that the original title, " U...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 8:31 AM by FP Passport

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Does America have a corruption problem?

Morning Brief: Britain announces biggest spending cuts since WWII

Anonymous leaks FBI-Scotland Yard conference call

Morning Brief: Eurozone demands more cuts from Greece

"Our little round-eyed friends will buy anything."

Glass half full dept: FP's optimist has one of the year's top ideas

The Election 2012 Weekly Report: The Newt Era

Two funerals, and Weibo

How real is the mourning in North Korea?

Morning Brief: Kim Jong Un moves to assert power

What do we know about Kim Jong Un?

Bad year for the coconuts

Morning Brief: Egypt’s cabinet offers resignation as protests continue

Herman Cain commits his foreign policy to writing

Who you calling persuaded?