Editors' Picks
The Five Habits of Highly Effective Terrorist Organizations
Daniel Byman offers management lessons for al Qaeda's new boss.
The Cynical Dairy Farmer's Guide to the New Middle East
How a couple of cows explain a changing region: equal opportunity offender edition.
After a turbulent decade abroad, observes James Traub, the Republican Party turns inward.
Jon Huntsman's comments about the U.S. footprint in Afghanistan made the most news. FP asked three Afghanistan experts to weigh in.
China's boundary-pushing artists

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Obama vs. the GOP on withdrawing from Afghanistan

BY PAUL D. MILLER
Obama vs. the GOP on withdrawing from Afghanistan

BY PAUL D. MILLER
State Dept. fails to protect identity of mysterious "senior administration official"
BY JOSH ROGIN
BY THOMAS E. RICKS
5 comments that ruined Karzai's relationship with the U.S.

BY ROBERT ZELIGER
Has Pakistan's military been infiltrated by extremists?
BY IMTIAZ GUL
Morocco's king has brought the country into modernity

BY AHMAD CHARAI
Berlusconi's Bunga-Bunga Bye-Bye
BY JAMES WALSTON
Jet-Skiing in the Triangle of Death
BY EMMA SKY
In Athens, Austerity Is for
The Dogs
BY EDMUND DOWNIE
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July/August 2011
Cover Story
Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong
Think Again
Opening Gambit
Crystal Clear - By Jay Ulfelder
Yes, rows of numbers can help predict revolutions. You just have to know where to look.
06/22/2011
Turner meets Hooch on the streets of Athens.
06/21/2011
When are Westerners going to learn that reform talk is cheap in the Kremlin?
06/21/2011
The Things They Carried: The Tahrir Square Irregular
Hazem Marghany, a 25-year-old architect, spent 18 days in Cairo's Tahrir Square during the revolution and has come back every Friday since. Here's what he packs in his black Adidas laptop bag.
06/21/2011
Jet-Skiing in the Triangle of Death - By Emma Sky
A former advisor to the U.S. commanding general in Iraq returns to Baghdad as a tourist and eats, chats, and listens to locals cover the Bee Gees, while pondering the country's future.
06/21/2011
Faulty Intelligence - By Joshua Rovner
David Petraeus will be the next CIA chief. But is he the right man for the job?
06/21/2011
The Final Curtain - By James Walston
The farce that is Silvio Berlusconi's rule of Italy may soon come to an end. And not a moment too soon.
06/21/2011
Three Days in Foros - By Anatoly Chernyaev
In August 1991, Soviet hardliners held Mikhail Gorbachev captive at a Crimean resort in a last-ditch effort to save the crumbling Soviet empire. Anatoly Chernyaev, Gorbachev's foreign policy advisor was there when it happened. In this excerpt from the diary he kept at the time -- newly translated into English -- he tells the story of the coup attempt that destroyed the USSR.
06/20/2011
Green Shoots in the Killing Fields - By Charles Kenny
Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo believe there's hope for their war-torn country even if no one else does -- and their optimism is starting to get results.
06/20/2011