World Politics

The sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn was dismissed in August 2011 after prosecutors lost faith in their witness. What actually happened.

August 23, 2011 · 1 min read

Forty minutes, one compound, a decade-long manhunt: how SEAL Team Six killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad on the night of May 1-2, 2011.

August 1, 2011 · 1 min read

In June 2011, Rumana Monzur was blinded by her husband in Bangladesh. Some blamed religion; others asked if he was ill. The harder truth is neither.

July 25, 2011 · 2 min read

Breivik's 1,518-page manifesto devoted 102 pages to India, praising Hindutva and seeking common cause. Why India's Hindu nationalists wanted nothing to do

July 25, 2011 · 2 min read

In 2011, a Colorado woman grabbed a TSA agent at Phoenix airport and called it protest. Was it courage, or just assault? The uncomfortable debate.

July 19, 2011 · 1 min read

In a 2011 Wall Street Journal essay, Aatish Taseer — son of assassinated Pakistani governor Salman Taseer — traced Pakistan's obsession with India to its

July 16, 2011 · 2 min read

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, 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

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

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

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

Omar bin Laden, the al-Qaeda chief's fourth son, denounced the Abbottabad raid as 'criminal' and reserved the right to sue the U.S. over his father's killing.

May 11, 2011 · 1 min read