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Introducing the 2013 Gelber Prize finalists: today's nominee, Chrystia Freeland

Over the past few days, we've been sharing interviews with the authors nominated for this year's Lionel Gelber Prize. A literary award for the year's best non-fiction book in English on foreign affairs. The award is sponsored by the Munk School...

Published Tue, Feb 26 2013 10:00 AM by FP Passport

Time to promote regime change in Iran?

Richard Haass , the realist former Bush administration official who heads the Council on Foreign Relations, turned a few heads Friday when he came out in favor of a policy of " regime change " in Iran: I've changed my mind. The nuclear talks...

Published Sun, Jan 24 2010 6:01 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Haiti rescue effort winds down, tens of thousands left homeless

Haiti rescue effort winds down, tens of thousands left homeless Top story: The search for survivors from the Jan. 12 Haiti earthquake officially ended over the weekend and with a few exceptions, search-and-rescue efforts are winding down throughout the...

Published Mon, Jan 25 2010 5:49 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

FARQaeda comes to Congress

Not sure if Florida Representatives Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Connie Mack's proposal to add Venezuela to the list of countries whose travelers will require extra scrutiny to enter the United States will go anywhere, but I was interested to see the FARC...

Published Fri, Jan 08 2010 9:38 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Terrorism, Drugs & Crime, Latin America, U.S. Congress

Bahrain's Twitter Army Cracks Down on Dissent

In Bahrain, all it takes is clicking on the wrong link to end up in jail. A new report prepared by Bahrain Watch, an activist organization critical of the ruling monarchy, details how the Bahraini government creates fake Twitter accounts to reveal the...

Published Thu, Aug 01 2013 9:20 AM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: Rousseff calls emergency cabinet meeting after 1 million Brazilians take to the streets

Rousseff calls emergency cabinet meeting after 1 million Brazilians take to the streets Top news: Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has called an emergency cabinet meeting to discuss the country's worst internal unrest in years after more than 1...

Published Fri, Jun 21 2013 5:29 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

FP's Susan Glasser moves to Politico

On Sunday, FP Editor in Chief Susan Glasser announced that she will be leaving Foreign Policy to launch and run a daily print and online magazine at Politico, where she will be "charged with creating and running new editorial divisions that produce...

Published Mon, Jun 03 2013 8:30 AM by FP Passport

Beijing's Censors Scrub Sexual Assault Scandal from Chinese Internet

This week, a sweeping sexual assault scandal facing one of China's biggest media companies was swept under the rug and deleted from Chinese websites, a trail of error-laden web pages shows. The firm is Phoenix Satellite Television, a private media...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2013 6:38 AM by FP Passport

Making You "Comfortable" with Spying Is Obama's Big NSA Fix

Barack Obama held a press conference on Friday afternoon, supposedly to announce reforms of the NSA's far-flung surveillance programs. In reality, the White House briefing was the start of a marketing campaign for the spy programs that have turned...

Published Fri, Aug 09 2013 2:26 PM by FP Passport

Times caption mislabels Hillary Clinton and Michelle Bachelet

Via Howard Kurtz , a New York Times photo caption gone horribly wrong: Read More...

Published Wed, Mar 03 2010 6:07 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Latin America, Media, Obama Administration, State Department

Goodluck, Jonathan

Nigeria has a new acting president today, after the country's parliament finally voted that the vice president, Goodluck Jonathan, should stand in for Umaru Yar'Adua. The latter has been missing in action -- rumored dead or worse -- for several...

Published Tue, Feb 09 2010 10:14 AM by FP Passport

Did foreign policy matter in the 2012 election?

Yes, this year's presidential election may have featured a fair amount of talk about America's defense spending, China's trade practices, Iran's nuclear program, and the Obama administration's response to the deadly attack on the U...

Published Tue, Nov 06 2012 10:00 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012

Putin on *** Riot: 'I don't think modern Germany should support anti-Semitism'

When a Moscow court jailed three members of the Russian punk band *** Riot in August for staging a protest against Vladimir Putin, the charge was "hooliganism motivated by religious hatred." And according to Russia's president, that hatred...

Published Fri, Nov 16 2012 12:36 PM by FP Passport

Morning Brief: U.S. president makes first visits to Myanmar and Cambodia

U.S. president makes first visits to Myanmar and Cambodia Top news: After beginning his Southeast Asian trip in Thailand, Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar on Monday. During a six-hour stop in the country, Obama toured...

Published Mon, Nov 19 2012 5:30 AM by FP Passport

Filed under: Morning Brief

Reporter finds Disney, Sears, and Wal-Mart products in wreckage of Bangladeshi factory

AP reporters sifted through the wreckage of the Tarzeen Fashions Ltd. factory in Bangladesh that burned to the ground last weekend killing 112 workers, and found merchandise from a number of popular western brands: Much of the clothing on the lower floors...

Published Wed, Nov 28 2012 9:20 AM by FP Passport

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Introducing the 2013 Gelber Prize finalists: today's nominee, Chrystia Freeland

Time to promote regime change in Iran?

Morning Brief: Haiti rescue effort winds down, tens of thousands left homeless

FARQaeda comes to Congress

Bahrain's Twitter Army Cracks Down on Dissent

Morning Brief: Rousseff calls emergency cabinet meeting after 1 million Brazilians take to the streets

FP's Susan Glasser moves to Politico

Beijing's Censors Scrub Sexual Assault Scandal from Chinese Internet

Making You "Comfortable" with Spying Is Obama's Big NSA Fix

Times caption mislabels Hillary Clinton and Michelle Bachelet

Goodluck, Jonathan

Did foreign policy matter in the 2012 election?

Putin on *** Riot: 'I don't think modern Germany should support anti-Semitism'

Morning Brief: U.S. president makes first visits to Myanmar and Cambodia

Reporter finds Disney, Sears, and Wal-Mart products in wreckage of Bangladeshi factory