Meet the world’s worst retired leaders.

China’s teetering on the verge of its own lost decade, and a meltdown in Beijing would make Japan’s economic malaise look like child’s play. - By Ethan Devine

Are Democrats so afraid of getting crushed in the midterm elections that they’ve turned to demonizing China?

In Jaffna, Sri Lanka, the Tamil community is slowly rising again.

Now that Kim Jong Un has made his bid to be North Korea’s next ruler, FP looks at the world’s autocrats-in-training who are waiting to take over their fathers’ regimes. 

Kicked out of France and unwanted in the countries to which they are forced to return, the Roma are a part of a new Europe that everyone would rather ignore.

Why the big problem in Yemen isn’t al Qaeda. It’s Yemen’s president. - By Ellen Knickmeyer

Is the allure of war by remote control destroying American power? - By Micah Zenko