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- Bring On the Pain Will Britain's massive spending cuts drive Brits onto the streets?
Oct. 20, 2010 - In Lebanon, We Dance in a Minefield There could be war tomorrow. Until then, life goes on.
Oct. 16, 2010 - Start Poor. Work Hard. Do Well. Be Hated Anyway. Why do Americans resent upward mobility?
Oct. 12, 2010 - Easy for Them To Say The Norwegians can award the Nobel to a Chinese dissident, but the rest of the world can't afford to be so critical of China.
Oct. 8, 2010 - The Media vs. the Drug Cartels What the Mexican press can learn from the Colombian experience.
Oct. 7, 2010 - The Government That Cried Wolf The State Department's vague security warnings to Americans in Europe do more harm than good.
Oct. 4, 2010 - Yes to Internet Access; No to Booze and Cigarettes How the German government calculates the cost of a decent life.
Sept. 29, 2010 - Making the World Safe for China China succeeds by behaving more like a multinational company than a global superpower.
Sept. 28, 2010 - Talking to Ahmadinejad As unlikely as it seems, he is America's best option for an Iranian negotiating partner.
Sept. 22, 2010 - A Commercial for Religious Freedom The fuss over Pope Benedict's visit to Britain was a blessing for Catholicism.
Sept. 21, 2010 - Hamas Isn't the IRA And when it comes to the peace process, the Middle East isn't Northern Ireland.
Sept. 17, 2010 - Less, Please Why are the British so excited about spending cuts and austerity measures?
Sept. 14, 2010 - A Tale of Two Europes Forget East and West, Europe is dividing itself into North and South.
Sept. 7, 2010 - Under Water Stunning photos of the Pakistani floods.
Sept. 1, 2010 - The Real Cost of the War in Iraq What seven years of fighting has done to American society.
Aug. 30, 2010 - If It's September, It Must Be Time for Peace Talks Israeli-Palestinian direct talks and the art of low expectations.
Aug. 25, 2010 - The First Family's Forced Vacations Who cares if the Obamas take their holidays in Maine or Spain?
Aug. 17, 2010 - The Rise of the Parasite Singles What Americans can learn from these macabre tales of mummified Japanese centenarians.
Aug. 13, 2010 - The ADHD-ventures of Tom Sawyer The strange comforts of reading Mark Twain in the age of oppositional defiant disorder.
Aug. 10, 2010 - Dross Check WikiLeaks' data-dump reporting simply makes a case for the existence of the mainstream media.
July 29, 2010 - The Egyptian Dilemma With Hosni Mubarak ailing, the Obama administration must choose between stability and change.
July 21, 2010 - American Hypocrites The only thing Americans hate more than big government is the absence of government protection.
July 20, 2010 - What the Butler Taped The juicy French scandal that makes President Sarkozy look like just another corrupt politician.
July 13, 2010 - Payback in Kampala Why did a band of Somali Islamists bomb World Cup viewing parties in Uganda?
July 12, 2010 - Democracy Promotion Isn't a Neocon Plot American audiences could also benefit from Hillary Clinton's endorsement of civil society.
July 6, 2010 - The Spies Who Came In From the Cold War The Russian spy scandal shows how little Moscow has changed.
July 1, 2010 - Our Vuvuzelas, Ourselves Each nation responds to the infernal plastic horn in its own way.
June 22, 2010 - Obama Can't Stop the Oil Spill Acting like politicians can solve all our problems just makes us look weak.
June 15, 2010 - Disrupt Iran's Oil Trade, Aid the Green Movement Sanctions helped South Africa's pro-democracy movement. They can do the same in Iran.
June 10, 2010 - What Went Wrong? Why did Iran's pro-democracy movement stall?
June 10, 2010 - Palestine's Great Hope The emergence of Salam Fayyad is the best thing to happen to the Middle East in ages.
June 8, 2010 - Germany Is Large; Its Soldiers Aren't Charity Workers The German president had to resign for having the temerity to say those things.
June 8, 2010 - The Final Abandonment of Gaza Radicals and terrorists have far more patience than the international community.
June 4, 2010 - Did Washington Bring Down the Japanese Prime Minister? It'll be even harder for the next leader to meet U.S. demands.
June 3, 2010 - What's To Investigate? We know what happened to the Gaza flotilla. The debate about the blockade is for another time.
June 1, 2010 - Bipartisanship 101 Britain's ruling coalition is a test for the rest of the world.
June 1, 2010 - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Baathists? Saddam Hussein is long dead. It's time for Iraq to let ex-Baathists into government.
May 28, 2010 - China Under Pressure What's behind the rash of Chinese school stabbings?
May 18, 2010 - Should We Make Somali Pirates Walk the Gangplank? Western nations must figure out how to deal with them.
May 18, 2010 - Charles Taylor's Long Goodbye Naomi Campbell, Pat Robertson, and a recipe for human-being stew.
May 14, 2010 - China's Undocumented Migrant Problem Washington and Beijing have at least one issue in common.
May 13, 2010 - Reading Paul Berman in Beirut What does it mean to be a liberal in the West and in the Arab world?
May 13, 2010 - Greece and the New Colonialism Who knew the European Union had so much power over its member states?
May 11, 2010 - Winners and Losers We don't yet know who'll be Britain's next prime minister, but a few things are clear.
May 7, 2010 - Coming to America We're likely to see more attacks on U.S. soil by al-Qaida affiliates.
May 5, 2010 - Who Put Iran in Charge of Women's Rights? The country's election to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women is a joke.
May 4, 2010 - How To Throw an Election Why did Sudan's leading opposition party go to great lengths to avoid winning the presidency?
April 28, 2010 - A Very British Revolution If Nick Clegg's Liberal Democrats do as well as expected, the entire electoral system could change.
April 27, 2010 - Revenge of the Volcano Gods Eyjafjallajökull's eruption could transform the economics and politics of Europe.
April 19, 2010 - Are Mexico's Drug Cartels Terrorist Groups? They're throwing grenades into U.S. consulates. Why don't we use the T word?
April 15, 2010 - Another Tragedy in the Haunted Forest But this time, no one suspects a conspiracy to kill the Polish elite.
April 12, 2010 - Why Is Vladimir Putin Going to Katyn? By taking responsibility for the 1940 massacre, Russia can lay its ghosts to rest.
April 6, 2010 - How Did Russian Police Know Who Bombed the Moscow Subway? It was reasonable to suspect Chechen women, but we still need a thorough investigation.
March 30, 2010 - The Candidate's Wife I almost became the first lady of Poland.
March 27, 2010 - Nasty Parties Don't Win Elections What the Republicans can learn from Britain's Conservative Party.
March 24, 2010 - Kingdom Kim's Culinary Outposts Inside the bizarre world of Asia's North Korean restaurant chain.
March 22, 2010 - Let's Trade With Iran Iranians love to shop; Americans love to sell.
March 20, 2010 - A Middle East Without American Influence? That's the logical outcome of the Obama administration's current policies.
March 17, 2010 - Continental Divide Britain and America both have center-left leaders, but the two nations are further apart than ever.
March 15, 2010 - Germany Is Tired of Paying Europe's Bills If Germans feel less guilty about the war, they won't make sacrifices to help feckless Greeks.
March 9, 2010 - A Refugee Photo Album The everyday lives of Iraqi refugees in Jordan.
March 5, 2010 - Will the Exiles Return to Iraq? Sunday's election is a test of the permanence of the division between Iraq's Sunnis and Shiites.
March 5, 2010 - Shaken, but Not Broken Chile will survive the earthquake because its democracy works.
March 1, 2010 - Bully for Brown Could complaints about his abusive behavior help Britain's prime minister get re-elected?
Feb. 24, 2010 - Preparing for the Worst The United States won't bomb Iran, but another country might.
Feb. 23, 2010 - A Cost-Benefit Analysis of the Dubai Assassination We won't know if it was worth it until we have all the facts.
Feb. 22, 2010 - Tea Party, Canada-Style! America's battle over health care reform started in Saskatchewan.
Feb. 18, 2010 - The Future Is Greek Take a good look at the Greek financial crisis. America could soon face something very similar.
Feb. 17, 2010 - Love in the Time of Consultants China's date doctors to the rescue.
Feb. 11, 2010 - Green-Washing Reports of the Iranian regime's imminent demise are greatly exaggerated.
Feb. 9, 2010 - Orange Crush What Viktor Yanukovych's election victory means for Ukraine.
Feb. 9, 2010 - The Big Problem With Big Solutions You can't reduce complex issues to three-word catchphrases.
Feb. 4, 2010 - Exchange Student As a New York-based freelance journalist, I monitor the currency market as closely as I watch the news.
Jan. 26, 2010 - The Indian Way of Patriotism It's not nationalistic, not imperialist, not aggressive, but rather self-critical.
Jan. 26, 2010 - Why Did We Focus on Securing Haiti Rather Than Helping Haitians? Here are two possibilities, neither of them flattering.
Jan. 21, 2010 - Haiti Is a Man-Made Disaster Recovery will require a profound cultural and political change.
Jan. 16, 2010 - Meet the New International Jihadist Elite How can we counter educated, eloquent, well-connected Islamists?
Jan. 12, 2010 - Our Two-Faced Friends in Sanaa The Yemeni government opposes al-Qaida jihadists, except when it's using them for its own ends.
Jan. 5, 2010 - Sense and Security Every year we waste millions on wasteful homeland-security projects.
Jan. 5, 2010 - Afghanistan Is Not Kind to Children Photographs about growing up in a society that privileges elders.
Jan. 4, 2010
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