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How to Bring Brazil's Economy Back to Life

The policies that helped Brazil to healthy growth over the past decade have lost momentum. The next president will need bold new ideas that look beyond the short term. Third in our series of Lab Reports on Brazil.

Vlad Is Rad

Meet the hipster wing of Putin’s propaganda machine.

Will Malala's Nobel Prize Backfire?

Let's Get the Old Blackwater Team Back Together

Ukraine Gas Boss: 'Gazprom Destroyed Its Image as a Reliable Supplier'

Foreign Policy sat down with the leaders of Ukraine's Naftogaz to talk Russia, Europe, energy, and the coming winter.

Putin Aims His Energy Weapon at Ukraine

Moscow is jacking up gas prices to cow Kiev and scare Europe. It may not work this time.

What's Stopping Turkey from Saving Kobani?

Ankara can't seem to make up its mind about who's the bigger enemy: the Islamic State or the Kurds.

China, From Within: Airpocalypse Now, China's Unsustainable Business Subsidies, and Another Corruption Probe

A week of news the West missed from the world's most populous country.

Hey Swaziland: $18 Won’t Buy You a Solution to Your AIDS Crisis

Tunisian Presidential Candidate Kennou Takes On the Patriarchy