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CyberCity allows government hackers to train for attacks

CyberCity has all the makings of a regular town. There’s a bank, a hospital and a power plant. A train station operates near a water tower. The coffee shop offers free WiFi. But only certain…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2139 words)

Let’s Be Friends

Why else would Obama spend hours on a golf course being lectured by Clinton? Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have never been close. Some of their advisers concede that the two men don’t really…
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Sept. 10, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (980 words)

Fussbudget

“If you’re going to criticize, you should propose,” Ryan says of his budget plan.
AUTHOR:Ryan Lizza
PUBLISHED: Aug. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (929 words)

How Qatar is taking on the world

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund owns 95% of the Shard in London, western Europe's tallest building. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA On Thursday evening Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who combines the…
PUBLISHED: July 7, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2127 words)

Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

Eighteen months into my job as the first woman director of policy planning at the State Department, a foreign-policy dream job that traces its origins back to George Kennan, I…
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3138 words)

The Last Famine

Early in February, without much fanfare, the United Nations officially declared the famine over in the Horn of Africa. This is welcome news. Last summer, when the worst drought in 60 years was…
PUBLISHED: March 2, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (780 words)
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Meltdown

For the first time, Boris Yeltsin's right-hand man tells the inside story of the coup that killed glasnost -- and changed the world.
PUBLISHED: June 20, 2011
LENGTH: 2 minutes (525 words)

Basta Bunga Bunga

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AUTHOR:Ariel Levy
PUBLISHED: June 6, 2011
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1016 words)

It’s the Economy, Dummkopf!

By the time I arrived in Hamburg the fate of the financial universe seemed to turn on which way the German people jumped. Moodys was set to downgrade the Portuguese governments debt to junk-bond…
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9611 words)
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