Foreign Policy Magazine

BENJAMIN GRANT “I know I have succeeded when I show someone a final composition and they excitedly ask me, ‘What is that?’ By stitching together numerous high-resolution satellite images to form one single view, I elevate my audience from their usua

GYNECOLOGIST Germán Cardoso’s abortion clinic is easy to find. Located on a residential street in Tandil, Argentina, a small city four hours south of Buenos Aires, the office is marked with a placard bearing the 59-year-old doctor’s name. His website

To CHIGOZIE OBIOMA, there is more to writing fiction than crafting engaging characters and plots. Writers, he says, have an opportunity to assess and critique the world in which they live. The 2015 Global Thinker’s debut novel, The Fishermen, is a do

BEFORE BATTLING on the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump shared common ground on a different circuit: high-paid public speaking. Clinton has earned more than $200,000 per speech, while Trump has reportedly commanded as much as $1.5 mil

LAST YEAR, 1,175 rhinos were poached in South Africa, up from just 13 in 2007. This slaughter fuels a booming black market for animal products: In 2014, the United Nations estimated the illegal wildlife trade to be worth between $50 billion and $150

MANY RENEWABLE energy advocates think the best way to store solar and wind energy may be to use what are known as “flow batteries,” which hold liquid electrolytes in tanks and then pump them through a reactor to produce electricity. A major advantage

In 1858, a notorious artist and stuntman soared above a village near Paris in a hot air balloon to capture the world’s first aerial photographs. By then, the Industrial Revolution had already set humanity on its current course of radically re-enginee

CHINESE CUSTOMERS PAYING HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS PER POUND OF WILD APPALACHIAN GINSENG ARE FEEDING A DIGGING FRENZY THAT THREATENS TO DECIMATE THE REVERED ROOT FOR GOOD.

Who has not stood before a vista—snow-capped peaks, a coral seascape teeming with reef fish, a desert stretching parched and golden to the horizon, the canopy of stars in the night sky—and not professed humility? Nature should be humbling. It is, aft

In 1998, when I was a reporter in Tokyo, an event happened that economists once thought impossible. Japan was at the height of its banking crisis, and as panic swelled, short-term market interest rates—what traders pay to borrow one another’s money o

Shakespeare may never have left England, but he became the most global writer who ever lived.

MIX IMPERIAL VIENNA with a dash of modern-day green living and the result is Ljubljana. In the heart of Slovenia’s capital sits a military fortress built by the Hapsburgs. Wide avenues boast art nouveau architecture and a robust café culture. Tivoli