Politics

In July 2011, after the U.S. froze $800 million in aid, Pakistan's defense minister threatened to pull troops from the Afghan border.

July 12, 2011 · 2 min read

In 2011, The Economic Times reported that Chinese executives in India — some 60,000 strong — were choosing to stay. Warmth, it turned out, was the pull.

July 11, 2011 · 1 min read

Osama bin Laden hid next to Pakistan's top military academy for years. The 2011 jokes wrote themselves — here is our lovingly illogical explanation.

July 4, 2011 · 1 min read

In 2011, Dominique Strauss-Kahn looked like France's next president. A New York arrest ended that — and exposed how French political culture shielded

July 1, 2011 · 1 min read

Jailed in the 2G case, DMK MP Kanimozhi broke down when her brother M.K. Stalin visited her at Tihar — their first meeting in over a month.

June 29, 2011 · 1 min read

A Chinese official posted intimate messages to his public Weibo instead of privately, and became a symbol of corruption in the social-media age.

June 28, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 projection said India could become the world's second-largest trading nation by 2050. What it assumed, and what 40-year forecasts are worth.

June 23, 2011 · 1 min read

Teenage girls are training as cartel hitwomen in Mexico, where organized crime has become an employer of last resort for the young.

June 18, 2011 · 3 min read

Al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki urged attacks on American business leaders and officials. He was killed by a US drone strike months later.

June 16, 2011 · 1 min read

Hamas reported record attendance at its 2011 Gaza summer camps. Critics call them paramilitary training for children; Hamas calls it resistance education.

June 11, 2011 · 1 min read

Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal imploded his career: the hacked-account lie, the looming resignation, and what it says about power and lying.

June 8, 2011 · 1 min read

Ilyas Kashmiri was reported killed in a 2009 drone strike, then gave an interview. A June 2011 strike in South Waziristan may have finally got him.

June 4, 2011 · 1 min read

At midnight on June 4, 2011, Delhi Police stormed Ramlila Maidan with tear gas and lathis, ending Baba Ramdev's fast against black money.

June 4, 2011 · 1 min read

Baba Ramdev says he's not entering politics — just fighting corruption. In India, that distinction has never been as clean as it sounds.

June 1, 2011 · 1 min read

Their husbands went to Tihar in the 2G spectrum scam. What happens to the wives left managing the fallout, the fees, and the silence.

May 30, 2011 · 1 min read

In May 2011 Pakistan asked China to take over Gwadar port — and hinted at a naval base. Beijing said no. Inside the new Great Game.

May 30, 2011 · 16 min read

Through most of 2011, political media obsessed over whether Sarah Palin would enter the 2012 Republican primary — until she announced in October she would not.

May 27, 2011 · 1 min read

A Diebold technician stole $200,000 from Bank of America ATMs and replaced the cash with photocopied $20s. It took ten months to catch him.

May 27, 2011 · 1 min read

In May 2011 Trump walked away from a 2012 run, mocked at the Correspondents' Dinner and eclipsed by bin Laden. Four years later, he didn't walk away.

May 16, 2011 · 1 min read

Arrested at JFK in May 2011 and denied bail, the IMF chief resigned within days. The charges were later dismissed; a civil suit settled.

May 15, 2011 · 1 min read