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List of Feature articles
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Chinese dredging vessels at work at the Colombo Port City under construction in Colombo, Sri Lanka on May 14, 2018. Xinhua/CHEC via Getty Images The Great Sand Grab
Modern civilizations are forged with sand, but soaring extraction has come at an alarming price.
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afghanistan-foreign-embassies-diplomats-foreign-policy-illustration-HP Afghanistan’s Diplomats Refuse to Represent a Terrorist Group
Some are working on resistance. Others, consular services. And all of them must figure out how to keep their embassy’s lights on.
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2022-elections-france-macron-brazil-bolsanaro-hungary-1500x1000 Elections to Watch in 2022
Next year’s contests are set to bring populist reckonings, parliamentary headaches, and a possible democratic crisis or two.
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A Ukrainian serviceman fires at a drone. 10 Conflicts to Watch in 2022
Battle deaths may be down, but regional wars continue to rage as great-power confrontations loom, from Ukraine to Taiwan, amid declining U.S. influence.
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FP-Interns-Underpaid-Washington-DC-Government-Matt-Chase-16x9 Washington Runs on Interns
So why are most of them not paid enough—and some not paid at all?
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An illustration of a captain's hat with a 1980s era Pepsi logo and USSR and U.S. flag pins. The Doomed Voyage of Pepsi’s Soviet Navy
A three-decade dream of communist markets ended in the scrapyard.
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Xi Zhongxun from a postage stamp commemorating the Chinese military leader. A Squabble About History Almost Killed Xi Jinping’s Father
Fights about the party’s past are serious business in Beijing.
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Miles Thompson plays lacrosse Gaming the State System
Can the Haudenosaunee Confederacy become the first Indigenous nation to secure an Olympic berth?
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Peacekeepers go on patrol In Central Africa, Russia Won the War—but It’s Losing the Peace
Putin’s pursuit of influence, arms sales, and mercenary meddling in the Central African Republic has left Moscow mired in a quagmire.
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CIA black site prison near Kabul and Ahmed Rabbani Nothing but Pitch Black Darkness
Ahmed Rabbani’s journey through the U.S. dark prison system to Guantánamo.
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1-Fuzzynomics-foreign-policy-3-2 Fuzzynomics and 12 Other Attempts to Name Our New Era
We asked leading economists and thinkers to define the post-pandemic age.
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A Femen protester holds a placard reading "The Future is Feminist" at a demonstration in Paris on March 7. Aux Armes, Citoyen·nes!
Gender-neutral terms have sparked an explosive battle over the future of the French language.
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A worker stands next to a cage of mice inside a laboratory of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, on Feb. 23, 2017. The Lab Leak Theory Doesn’t Hold Up
The rush to find a conspiracy around the COVID-19 pandemic’s origins is driven by narrative, not evidence.
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Truck at a roadblock in Democratic Republic of the Congo It’s the Roads, Stupid
Armed checkpoints along key trade routes—not natural resources—are the key to financing rebel groups and insurgencies around the world.
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Portraits of six Uyghur women. Uyghur Women Are China’s Victims—and Resistance
The Chinese government may soon regret choosing to crack down on women from Xinjiang’s Muslim minority.
