President Obama's first week in office may have dominated world headlines, but there was plenty of other news happening. There was Davos madness, Iraqi elections, controversy over closing Gitmo, and tensions mounting in Israel. ForeignPolicy.com hasn't missed a beat.
We know you're busy, so here are some of the highlights:
Special Investigative Report: Tom Ricks turns The Best Defense's gaze to a small battle that took place last summer in Wanat that left nine Americans dead. With access to little-read interviews and reports, Ricks explores what really happened and may have just pioneered a new form of online journalism.
Predictions: Iceland's economy met with fate this week and took a hit. Which country will be next? FP's The List runs down some possibilities.
Scoops: The Cable's Laura Rozen has the goods on a series of secret U.S.-Iran nuclear talks and India's lobbying against Richard Holbrooke, Shadow Government's Dan Twining stays one step ahead of the news while Madam Secretary caught a whiff of the State Department's 7th-floor squabbles, and on Passport, Joshua Keating called the Great Roquefort War, and called it early.
Smack Talk: Stephen Walt takes on... well, a lot of people. First it was Tom Friedman on Middle East strategy, then he challenged the NY Times to get a conservative columnist worthy of the op-ed space, and finally he once again set the record straight for critics of The Israel Lobby.
There's more to come. Stay tuned.
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