World Politics

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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