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Everything Is Terrible: Kristen Stewart Will Star in a Romantic Take on '1984'

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably noticed that kids these days are obsessed with dark, dystopian novels, especially their film adaptations. There's the Hunger Games franchise, Divergent , The Bone Season , and Ender's...

Published Thu, Jan 16 2014 1:30 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: North America, Culture, Fun Stuff

A Who's Who in the Executive Cell Block

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was sentenced to six years in prison on Wednesday for accepting bribes to streamline the construction of a luxury apartment complex. When his incarceration begins in September, Olmert will be the latest in the...

Published Thu, May 15 2014 2:59 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Corruption, Justice, Politics

Google's Thrun: 'We're really dumbing down our children'

Google fellow and Stanford University computer scientist Sebastian Thrun -- who is ranked #4 on our Global Thinkers list for his work developing and promoting self-driving cars -- spoke during this afternoon's panel on "The New Economic Sources...

Published Thu, Nov 29 2012 1:22 PM by FP Passport

So how are those efforts to close Gitmo going?

Throughout his first term, many of President Obama's disappointed supporters charged that his administration had never really followed through on efforts to implement his January 2009 executive order closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay...

Published Tue, Jan 29 2013 10:47 AM by FP Passport

Quiz: How many people worldwide serve in the military?

For those of you who don't subscribe to the bimonthly print edition of Foreign Policy , you're missing a great feature: the FP Quiz. It has eight intriguing questions about how the world works. The question I'd like to highlight this week...

Published Thu, Jan 28 2010 9:54 AM by FP Passport

See Tom Donilon discuss the toughest challenges in U.S. foreign policy

C-Span has uploaded video of National Security Advisor Tom Donilon's remarks at yesterday's "Transformational Trends" forum cohosted by Foreign Policy and the State Department's Policy Planning staff. In the candid, nearly hour-long...

Published Fri, Nov 30 2012 2:05 PM by FP Passport

Putin meme accountability watch: No, he did not hire Boyz II Men to make Russians have sex

You may have seen via social media today that the Moscow Times is reporting that Vladimir Putin has hired Boyz II Men to play a concert in Moscow as part of a campaign to encourage Russians to procreate and raise the country's flaggin birth rate....

Published Thu, Jan 31 2013 12:08 PM by FP Passport

China's political geology

Japan and China have generally based their claims to the Senkakus/Diaoyus on past treaties and historical records. But it seems that Beijing is calling in the geologists : After making its first aerial incursion into Japanese-controlled airspace near...

Published Wed, Dec 19 2012 2:26 PM by FP Passport

Syria's guerrilla pollsters

Syria may be the most difficult country in the world to conduct a public opinion poll. But a "guerrilla polling" team did just that, publishing a survey today that attempted to gauge national opinion in the country - and it's bad news for...

Published Wed, Sep 28 2011 1:16 PM by FP Passport

Suspect in Ukrainian journalist's murder flips on former president

The ongoing trial over the murder of Ukrainian journalist Georgiy Gongadze -- one of the key events in the lead-up to the 2004-2005 Orange Revolution -- took another twist with suspect Olexiy Pukach fingering former president Leonid Kuchma as the mastermind...

Published Wed, Aug 31 2011 11:09 AM by FP Passport

Why does James Inhofe support Ivory Coast's Gbagbo?

As the situation in the Ivory Coast rapidly deteriorates, Sen. James Inhofe (Okla. - R) has written to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton calling for new elections in the Ivory Coast, a signal of support for outgoing president Laurent Gbagbo who...

Published Wed, Mar 30 2011 2:12 PM by FP Passport

Islamic State Beheadings Beget Beheadings

Medvedev's runaway SUV

During a visit to Kazan over the weekend, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's SUV nearly barreled into a large crowd of people after someone forgot to put on the parking break. The president does his best to get the vehicle under control, but the...

Published Wed, Jun 29 2011 12:08 PM by FP Passport

Thaksin lawyer suspects fraud in Thai election

I spoke this week with Robert Amsterdam, a Canadian lawyer whose made a name for himself in recent years representing prominent business and political leaders who've fallen afoul of authoritarian regimes, including Russia's Mikhail Khodorkovsky...

Published Wed, Jun 29 2011 8:50 AM by FP Passport

Did candidate Obama call world leaders in 2008?

Friday ushered in a surreal new chapter in the duel between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney over how to approach relations with Israel and Iran's nuclear program, as both candidates hopped on phone calls with Benjamin Netanyahu a day after the Israeli...

Published Fri, Sep 28 2012 3:30 PM by FP Passport

Filed under: Election 2012, 2012 Election Poster 1, Mitt Romney, Barack Obama