World Politics

After Punjab governor Salman Taseer's assassination in January 2011, fears grew for Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman on death row for blasphemy.

January 6, 2011 · 2 min read

A 2011 UK report found grooming gangs were disproportionately Pakistani-origin — and that fear of seeming racist had silenced police and social workers.

January 5, 2011 · 2 min read

A BVA-Gallup survey ranked France among the world's least happy nations and India among the most optimistic. Subjective wellbeing is about expectations.

January 5, 2011 · 1 min read

Mandatory HIV tests for foreign teachers — but not ethnic Koreans — reignited a debate about xenophobia in South Korea. A look back at the 2010 controversy.

January 3, 2011 · 1 min read

As 2011 began, Pakistan's president Asif Ali Zardari looked politically finished — a shaky coalition, a power crisis, and the army watching. A look back.

January 3, 2011 · 1 min read

Nicolas Sarkozy’s December 2010 India visit blended ceremony with commerce: Rafale jets, nuclear reactors, and France’s bid for New Delhi’s favor.

December 4, 2010 · 1 min read

Supermodel, singer, and France’s most unconventional first lady: on Carla Bruni-Sarkozy’s creative identity and the French art of minding one’s business.

December 4, 2010 · 1 min read

Amazon pulled hosting, the DNS registrar pulled the domain, PayPal froze donations — and WikiLeaks stayed up. On the week the internet proved unkillable.

December 3, 2010 · 1 min read

Hacker, activist, fugitive: at 39, Julian Assange is wanted by Sweden and hunted by governments. A profile of the man behind WikiLeaks.

December 2, 2010 · 2 min read

Some called for Hillary Clinton to resign over the WikiLeaks cables. On why the case was structural, the cause was elsewhere, and she stayed.

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

Velma Hart told Obama at a town hall she was ‘exhausted’ defending him. Months later she lost her job. On what happened — and what didn’t get proven.

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

Bill O'Reilly declared the WikiLeaks leakers 'traitors' who 'should be executed.' On the harshest end of America's 2010 debate over the cable disclosures.

November 30, 2010 · 1 min read

How did a 22-year-old analyst exfiltrate hundreds of thousands of classified files? On the institutional failures — physical, procedural, human — behind the

November 29, 2010 · 1 min read

WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs — 391,832 U.S. Army field reports — documented 109,032 deaths, uninvestigated torture, and a casualty count the U.S. said didn't exist.

November 29, 2010 · 2 min read

Bradley Manning, 23, went from Army intelligence analyst in Iraq to the prime suspect behind the biggest leak in U.S. military history.

November 29, 2010 · 2 min read

The WikiLeaks cables revealed Arab leaders privately urging the U.S. to strike Iran's nuclear program — while saying otherwise in public.

November 29, 2010 · 2 min read

In November 2010 Iran's parliament revealed it had planned to impeach President Ahmadinejad — and was stopped only by the Supreme Leader.

November 23, 2010 · 1 min read

Japan's justice minister Minoru Yanagida resigned in November 2010 after joking that his job required remembering only two phrases.

November 22, 2010 · 1 min read

The Louisiana governor — touted as a future president since 2007 — said in November 2010 he wouldn't seek the 2012 GOP nomination.

November 18, 2010 · 1 min read

Greece, then Ireland, then Portugal, then Spain. Each bailout was promised to be the last firewall — and each failed, because the problem was structural.

November 14, 2010 · 1 min read