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The Post-American World

As China and Russia rise, where does that leave the United States?

 
 
WORLD XTRA
A Dangerous Place
THE WORLD FROM WASHINGTON
Target: Iran?
COUNTDOWN TO BEIJING
Olympic Torch Reaches Everest's Peak
MIND MATTERS
Our Own Worst Critic
SHADOWLAND
Terrorist Triage
WAR IN IRAQ
A Brother's Keeper
 
 
 
 
 
MONEY FLOWS

Japan's insularity is becoming a drag on its economy and threatening its future.

 
 
WORLD VIEW

Despite its achievements, Washington is divided on how to deal with North Korea long term.

 

WAR IN IRAQ

Before being deployed to Iraq in 2003, Andrew Alonzo worked as a caretaker at one of the nation's largest military cemeteries. When he came home, that graveyard helped save his life.

BURMA

A leading Burmese exile discusses the junta's slow response to cyclone relief and why many see the cyclone as divine intervention against their despotic leaders.

SCIENCE

The human brain is a less-than-perfect device. A new book explains how our minds work … and sometimes don't.

TECHNOLOGY

A new global film festival called Pangea Day hopes to use the power of visual storytelling to foster peace and understanding.

CHINA

Mitt Romney says Beijing should take 'symbolic action' to let the world know it is willing to listen to concerns about its human rights record.

MONEY FLOWS

Japan's insularity is becoming a drag on its economy and threatening its future.

CAMPAIGN 2008

A big win. A squeaker loss. The leader tightens his grip.

BURMA

Survivors of Burma's devastating cyclone now face epidemics and hunger. A U.N. official describes the challenges of providing aid to a closed society.

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Scientists no longer have to bend over backward to circumvent ethical concerns about embryo research.

TECHNOLOGY

What the failed deal means for the Net—and users.

CAPITAL SOURCES

Washington has to decide whether to protect polar bears under the Endangered Species Act. Inside the politics of the debate.

INTERNATIONAL

It's true China is booming, Russia is growing more assertive, terrorism is a threat. But if America is losing the ability to dictate to this new world, it has not lost the ability to lead.

THE LAST WORD

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan talks to Owen Matthews about Islam, modernity and Turkey's role in Israel-Syria communications

WORLD AFFAIRS

London has become so prosperous, so quickly, it is now virtually unlivable.

WORLD AFFAIRS

Latin America is finally thriving economically, yet the populist rhetoric is getting louder and stronger.

WORLD AFFAIRS

Conservatives rule almost all of Europe. What they will do with all their power is an open question.

BUSINESS

One of Henry Paulson's top Treasury Department aides on how United States and world policymakers are responding to the fallout of the global credit crunch.

WORLD VIEW

Despite its achievements, Washington is divided on how to deal with North Korea long term.

TECHNOLOGY

The game gives our mercurial hero a conscience, a fatigue with death, a desire to start over.

HISTORY

Barack Obama's not the only one calling him a 'transformational' leader. So is Sean Wilentz.

SUMMER MOVIE PREVIEW

Every movie eventually fades to black. But very few of them know how to give audiences a grand finale.

GLOBAL TRAVEL

A global guide to some of the most common errors behind the wheel.

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FORUM

The rift between China and the West is the most urgent foreign policy problem.

GLOBAL LEADERSHIP FORUM

'American dominance has been very short-lived,' says a U.K. defense expert, and pressing issues in the Middle East, Russia and elsewhere will test the capabilities of the next president.



BOOKS

A novel told exclusively through Google maps, another through images on Flickr—a publisher tries retelling novels in ways exclusive to the Web.

DEPARTMENTS
 
BURMA

A leading Burmese exile discusses the junta's slow response to cyclone relief and why many see the cyclone as divine intervention against their despotic leaders.

 
 

'American dominance has been very short-lived,' says a U.K. defense expert, and pressing issues in the Middle East, Russia and elsewhere will test the capabilities of the next president.

 
The Peek
 
 
STRATEGIES

Harmonix, creator of Rock Band and Guitar Hero, is changing videogames.

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CAMPAIGN 2008

Why Oprah Winfrey left Rev. Jeremiah Wright's church.

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