Newsweek International

Byline: Fred Guterl and Eve Conant In the early 1970s, Freeman Dyson wrote an essay comparing space travel to the colonization of the New World and the settlement of the American West. The subject was fanciful, but that didn't keep Dyson, an eminent...

Byline: William Ward; Ward is a U.K.-based Italy analyst and the London correspondent for Panorama and Il Foglio. A defense of Italy's prime minister. To the endless exasperation of foreign commentators, a consistent majority of Italian voters...

Byline: Owen Matthews Russian terror in the age of Putin. Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000 on a promise to bring peace to the Caucasus. Almost a decade later, the region is once again on fire as a spate of suicide bombings and attacks on...

Washington must stick by Islamabad. President Obama is on the verge of signing legislation that would grant $7.5 billion in new aid to Pakistan over the next five years, most of it in the form of economic assistance designed to strengthen the alliance...

Byline: Elisa Mala Fade in on a typical day at the Tribeca Film Festival: dazzling images flash across the silver screen, while A-listers flash megawatt smiles for a sea of paparazzi. Skyscrapers loom over the cobblestoned streets of downtown Manhattan....

Byline: Jon Meacham Armaggedon, for one. On Nov. 2, 1945--All Souls' Day in the Catholic tradition--J. Robert Oppenheimer spoke to scientists at Los Alamos. "It is clear to me that wars have changed," he said. "It is clear to me that if these...

Byline: Jeremy Kahn On June 21, two Chinese military helicopters swooped low over Demchok, a tiny Indian hamlet high in the Hima-layas along the northwestern border with China. The helicopters dropped canned food over a barren expanse and then returned...