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GettyImages-489541506_Cartercropppps Ash Carter Is Looking to the Future. The Mideast Is Keeping Him Stuck in the Past.
The secretary of defense came into office promising to shake up the Pentagon, but the chaos in Iraq and Syria has left him mired in wars he didn't want to fight.
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RTX1EUMV cropped Why Angola’s Star Reporter Won’t Stay Down
Angola's corrupt leaders keep trying to silence Rafael Marques. So far, without success.
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GettyImages-143779740 The Face of Greek Resistance
Meet the 92-year-old communist who explains why Athens can't capitulate to its creditors.
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GettyImages-180955051 crop One Woman Stands Against the Iranian Government
In a country that brooks no dissent, Nasrin Sotoudeh's remarkable solo protest keeps finding unlikely allies.
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GettyImages-470159803 cropped Venezuela’s Last Hope
Leopoldo López embodies the change his country needs. And that's exactly why he's still in jail.
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How an unlikely American ideologue is inspiring Egypt’s new generation of Islamic militants.
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Rawabi Building Palestinian Democracy, One Brick at a Time
Palestinian businessman Bashar al-Masri has a plan for building democracy on the West Bank. And it's not really about politics.
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AFP PHOTO / POROSHENKO PRESS-SERVICE / MYKOLA LAZARENKO Ukraine’s Chocolate King to the Rescue
Ukrainians hope that Petro Poroshenko can lead them out of the current crisis. But can one man provide the solution to all the country's problems?
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FETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images The Police Are Dogs
No one else manages to rile Tunisia's post-revolutionary government quite like rapper Klay BBJ.
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TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images The Rise and Fall of Somalia’s Pirate King
And the reverse-Argo sting that bagged him.
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Photo: KAREN BLEIER/AFP/Getty Images Sherman’s March
Meet the social worker turned nuclear negotiator who's trying to keep Iran from getting the bomb.
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-/AFP/Getty Images Syria’s Good Soldier
Meet the man who could be the next president in Damascus. If he's not already dead.
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BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images Samantha Power’s Problem from Hell
Can a humanitarian firebrand help forge a deal with Syria's dictator?
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Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images The D.C. Socialite vs. ‘The Grill Sergeant’
When the Pentagon tried to save its awful TV channel, it called in Washington's most infamous TV producer-turned-party-thrower.
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SAEED KHAN/AFP/GettyImages The Princess of Reform
Why the daughter of Malaysia’s opposition leader embodies the hopes of the democratic reform movement.
