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• • Morning Brief: Suicide bomber kills Kandahar mayor
  • AfPak Daily brief: Suicide bomber kills mayor of Kandahar
  • Mideast Mideast news brief: Twin suicide car bombings in southern Iraqi city kill at least 27 people
• • The Last Pilgrims to Havana - by Yoani Sánchez
  • The Abortion Trap - by Mara Hvistendahl
  • Heavy Metal - by Teru Kuwayama
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  • Stopping the Nuclear North - by Joel Wit and Jenny Town
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• • FP Passport: Pakistan’s glamorous new foreign minister wows India
  • FP Passport: Al-Shabab: Samosas are too Christian
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  • The Cable: Russian official calls Kyl and Kirk “monsters of the Cold War”
  • FP Passport: What will the political fallout be from the Norway massacre?
  • The AfPak Channel: Daily brief: Suicide bomber kills mayor of Kandahar
  • The Best Defense: Dempsey on two big lessons of Iraq: Think more and train leaders better
  • The Best Defense: The defense budget implosion (VI): An exchange between McCain and the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs

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• TERMS OF ENGAGEMENT

  Less Is More

  Cutting U.S. military aid to Pakistan might be just what the world's most frustrating alliance needs.

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  Men in Tights

  From peace-loving Captain Euro to Canada's killer lumberjack, Captain America's got company.

• ARGUMENT

  The Prince of Persia

  Machiavelli's got nothing on Iran's Supreme Leader.

• ARGUMENT

  Worst. Congress. Ever.

  Americans have complained for years that their government is broken. And, says Norman Ornstein, this time they're right.

• Congressional grades: Congress shouldn't be graded on passing laws.
• Debt-ceiling crisis: The U.S. won't "default" after Aug. 2. Something much weirder will happen.
• The Search for Animal Chin: Without Stacy Peralta's path-breaking, kick-flipping skate movie, there would be no X Games.

• Givhan: Amy Winehouse's Broken Beauty
• Ben Carson Finds Rare Proof of African Ties
• Candorville: Love Lost

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• ROTHKOPF

  Debt Crisis Watch: Get Ready for America's Lost Decade

• ARGUMENT

  If We Want to Stop NoKo's Doomsday Arsenal, the Time Is Now

• ARGUMENT

  International Forces Are Finally Winning in Somalia, Sort of

• AFPAK

  Where Is Hamid Karzai These Days?

  BY S. HOLEWINSKI

• Postcards from Hell

  Images of the World's Most Failed States

  BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON

  The Year in Misery 2011

  AN FP SPECIAL REPORT

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July/August 2011

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  Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong

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The Latest from FP

• The Abortion Trap - By Mara Hvistendahl

  How America's obsession with abortion hurts families everywhere.

  07/26/2011

• Heavy Metal - An FP Special Photo Feature

  U.S. Marines on the front lines of Afghanistan.

  07/26/2011

• Rumble in the Jungle - By Elizabeth Dickinson

  In Colombia, FARC operations are on the rise as the guerrilla movement changes strategy and returns to its insurgent roots.

  07/26/2011

• Stopping the Nuclear North - By Joel Wit and Jenny Town

  Kim Jong Il is rapidly building his doomsday arsenal. If Washington wants any shot to stop him, the time for negotiations is now.

  07/26/2011

• We're Winning in Somalia - By Boubacar Gaoussou Diarra

  With a little more donor support, international forces can help drive al-Shabab out of Mogadishu.

  07/26/2011

• Here Comes the FARC - An FP Slide Show

  The once-dead guerrilla war returns to Colombia.

  07/26/2011

• The War in Hipstamatic - An FP Photo Essay

  A rare and beautiful look at Afghanistan, through an iPhone. 

  07/25/2011

• The Super-Lux Super Max - An FP Slide Show

  From flat-screen TVs to jogging trails, here's where Norway's accused mass murderer could end up.

  07/25/2011

• Famine Is a Crime - By Charles Kenny

  Civilization has defeated mass starvation. So why are so many Somalis dying of hunger?

  07/25/2011

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