Max Fisher is a former writer and editor at The Atlantic.
Generating a highly publicized but low-risk diplomatic confrontation with a Western power would be consistent with Ecuadorian President Correa's legitimacy-boosting foreign policy. More »
The four-minute radio address ended a war, obliterated the 20-year imperial ideology, and began Japan's rebirth into what it is today. More »
A new website seeks to document and shame the Central Asian nation's appalling car parking habits. More »
Discard your stereotypes: people in the U.S. own fewer passenger on average than in almost all other developed nations. More »
A year after NATO intervention, Gallup finds a Libyan approval rating for U.S. leadership far above Mideast and even European norms. More »
Breaking with usual campaign practice, Mitt Romney selected a fellow foreign policy neophyte as his running mate. But, as with the 1992 Clinton/Gore ticket, that might be precisely the point. More »
Not just because the forthcoming film portrays a North Korean invasion of America, but because the world and America's place in it have changed so dramatically since the original cult classic. More »
Centuries before the Islamic Republic or even Islam, Persian athletes fused spirituality and strength training in a practice called Varzesh-e-Bastani, the legacy of which may have persisted to Iran's amazing Olympic record today. More »
After failing to keep films away from culture-loving Iranians, the Islamic Republic is trying some new, if clunky, techniques for editing the West out of Western entertainment. More »
Olympic authorities are investigating a bucket of unapproved, non-sponsor condoms found in the village. More »
TEPCO has released tense footage from their video live-link between the Tokyo headquarters and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. More »
The Soviets might have landed on two planets to America's one, but the extent of the ultimate U.S. space victory is a sort of metaphor for the Cold War and its resolution. More »
The North Korean regime appears to have turned its greatest weaknesses -- poverty, corruption, and insecurity -- into pillars of stability. More »
The world's largest democracy wins fewer medals per person than any other country. It's been priced out of its most competitive sport, but could national priorities also play a role? More »
Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, three years after his government shut down the internet, has joined its latest social media fad. More »
Foreigners on their first trip to this much-storied country might expect it to be like an episode of Friends but find something quite different. More »
If "culture makes all the difference" in explaining economic disparity, as Romney suggested of Israel and Palestine, then are Kuwaitis and Belgians culturally superior to Israelis? More »
An outage in northern and northeast India has left 670 million people without power. More »
The candidate's call to acknowledge what anyone can see is Israel's capital is far more complicated than it seems, and a microcosm of the crucial but difficult role that the U.S. plays in securing peace. More »
