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Gallic ingenuity has turned failing farms and rundown châteaux into hidden tourist gems.
Tony Blair’s memoir reveals him to be neither a cynic nor an innocent, but a man of some principle.
The Iranian nuclear threat will soon come to a head. A preemptive attack by Israel could be disastrous. It might happen anyway.
Henry Kissinger believes that containing Iran will depend on one thing: showing its leaders that we're willing to go to war.
As sea traffic booms, can new shipping lanes and speed limits save the right whale from extinction?
The author returns to his old Tokyo neighborhood and finds an inward-looking country that has lost its ambition.
High anxiety amid giant Tree Ferns and landslides in Bolivia’s little-traveled—and dazzling—Carrasco National Park
President Obama and his advisers are facing a series of questions on Iran and Israel. Every answer is discouraging.
An eminent economist discovers the virtues of colonialism.
Witches are overwhelming the courts in the Central African Republic. And that may be a good thing.
From oil in Algeria to zinc in Gabon to copper in the Congo, China is muscling in on natural resources all across Africa on a massive scale. Will it succeed in easing poverty where Western aid has failed? Or will it become the continent’s latest colonial overlord?
Haiti’s famed Barbancourt rum factory has survived by taking self-sufficiency to an extreme.
How an Afghan pilot became a cosmonaut—and a fugitive
It’s not just Al-Qaeda. Water shortages, collapsing oil supplies, war, refugees, pirates, poverty—why Yemen is failing.
Will General Stanley McChrystal be our deus ex machina in Afghanistan? Or just the latest commander to succumb to the impersonal forces of history and geography?
Less traffic through the Suez Canal means less of everything else for Egyptians—including hope.
These Artists Are Mapping the Earth ... With Facial Recognition Software
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Just 27% of BA's Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don't Believe the Fed's New Stat
Time's Up: Colorado's Governor Needs to Pick a Death Penalty Position
Daft Punk's Random Access Memories Is a Lovely Sounding Retirement Record
2 SCOTUS Judges in 1971: Espionage Act Doesn't Apply to the Press
If a Senate Candidate Chops a Watermelon with an Ax in the Woods, Does It Make a Sound?
This Is the Biggest Mistake 60-Year Old Men Make About the Economy
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