Foreign Policy In Focus

Can a group of architects turn destruction sites into construction sites?

What lies beneath the rare earth metals that the world so covets?

Caricatures of Cuba as intolerant of political expression may contain a kernel of truth, but they miss the richness of dissent in the daily life of Cuba's political culture.

On the Walk of Shame, poets visit the embassies of Burma, Yemen, and Turkmenistan to read aloud the poems that can't be read inside those countries.

A poem about genocide read in front of the Burmese embassy on the Poetry Walk of Shame.

A British artist offers citizenship to all in his new island country.

Politicians wage war, rages the poet, but they don't pay the price.

In the heart of San Francisco, a newly unveiled mural draws attention to the plight of two-thirds of migrant youth who are left out of the conversation on immigration reform.