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Introducing … The Most Dynamic Cities of 2025

An exclusive look at the 75 powerhouses of the coming urban revolution.

The East Is Rising

From Chongqing to Shenzhen, 29 of the world's 75 most dynamic cities are in a single country: China.

Weapons of Mass Urban Destruction

China's cities are making the same mistake America's did on the path to superpower status.

BY PETER CALTHORPE

Cities of the Future: Made in China

From traffic-jumping buses to electric taxis, China is at the forefront of the world's flashiest urban innovations.

BY DUSTIN ROASA

'Twitter Is My City': An Exclusive Interview with Ai Weiwei

INTERVIEW BY JONATHAN LANDRETH

Beijing's best-known dissident, architect, and creative provocateur tells Jonathan Landreth what's wrong with China's frenetic capital.

The Rise and Fall and Rise of New Shanghai

Is history repeating itself in China's glittering global city?

BY DANIEL BROOK

Beijing Forever

In China's pulsing capital, change is the only constant.

BY MICHAEL MEYER

Mr. Happy

Guangdong Communist Party boss Wang Yang is the great hope of China's urban intelligentsia. Is he about to make the big time?

BY GEOFF DYER

Who Broke the U.N.?

Madeleine Albright explains what role the United Nations should play in today's ever-more-tangled global conflicts.

BY MADELEINE K. ALBRIGHT

The FP Survey: The United Nations

Top experts rate the United Nations' biggest obstacles.

The Point Guard

Susan Rice calls the plays for Barack Obama at the United Nations. Could she lead his foreign-policy team next? Should she?

BY JAMES TRAUB

Think Again: Obama's New Deal

The president's Republican critics are dead wrong. The stimulus worked.

BY MICHAEL GRUNWALD

The November Surprise

Forget October bombshells. The real surprise in the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign will come when disaffected voters shun the polls.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF

Opening Gambit: Liar, Liar

BY DAN ARIELY

The New New Normal: Why Bad Politics = Even Worse Markets

BY MOHAMED A. EL-ERIAN

Anthropology of an Idea: Targeted Killings

BY URI FRIEDMAN

The List: Jobs of the Future

BY PARAG KHANNA AND AARON SMITH

Ideas: The Renminbi Blues

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING

Ideas: Tomorrow, We Save

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING

Epiphanies from Salman Rushdie

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER

The Optimist: In Praise of Slums

BY CHARLES KENNY

The Things They Carried: The Generals' General

Dispatch: PTSDland

BY ANNA BADKHEN

Leftist Planet

Why do so many travel guides make excuses for dictators?

BY MICHAEL MOYNIHAN

Con Air

What in-flight magazines don't want you to know about the world.

BY SARAH WILDMAN

Assessing Hillary

Responding to the Failed States Index

Revolutionary Calculus

Boom Time