Max Fisher

Such tips as "don't hand out cash to dinner guests" reveal what foreign tourists find surprising about coming to America.… More »

Citizen-journalists are playing a greater role in showing conflict zones to the world and defining our understanding. What happens when they're wrong?… More »

A half dozen or so activists showed their pride in a country that would put them to death for it… More »

The social network's users are increasingly located in Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.… More »

As security forces continue to repress this Arab Spring protest movement, young children are losing family members and bearing scars that could last a lifetime.… More »

As the country's economy decelerates, its leaders are once more trying to navigate competing interests, conflicting goals, and a political system that might have to start changing.… More »

Though American social laws are often significantly more conservative than in other developed countries, this issue is a bit more progressive.… More »

Though dressed up as an ancient Greek tradition, the torch relay ceremony was originally designed to further Hitler's nationalist propaganda.… More »

The European experiment began as an effort to bring France and Germany together. Has it ended up driving them apart?… More »

As Chen Guangcheng's case becomes more complicated and more politicized, the blind activist is wading into superpower politics, and maybe getting in over his head.… More »

Chen Guangcheng, who the U.S. embassy in Beijing this morning, portrays American officials as having manipulated him to encourage his departure.… More »

From what we know, it appears that Chen may not have wanted to be released from the American embassy, but neither he nor the U.S. had any real choice.… More »

Nearly a year after she was arrested for defying the law banning women from driving, Shaima Jastaniah has finally won a reprieve from her sentence.… More »

How the White House deals with Chen Guangcheng, reportedly hiding in an American embassy, could reveal more about its agenda and values abroad than maybe any other international crisis… More »

In 2003, Maria joined the victims of a terrible crime in the Ituri conflict. Her story still matters, and an aid group is telling it around the world, but does our attention also carry some risks?… More »

Arab societies suffer from deep misogyny, but the problem is not as particularly Arab or Islamic as you might think.… More »

Everyone in North Korea serves the military -- even, according to boastful state propagandists, kids.… More »

How did the country that gave us the Statue of Liberty become "cheese-eating surrender monkeys" and an unacceptable vacation destination for a presidential candidate?… More »

It's getting tougher for the U.S. to impose its will, but we can still lead the world -- the trick is convincing the world to follow.… More »

When artist Makode Linde dressed up as a pastry depicting a caricatured African woman, he was doing more than just embarrassing Sweden's cultural minister… More »