Highlights from ForeignPolicy.com this week

Posted By Rebecca Frankel Friday, March 13, 2009 - 4:25 PM Share

Before we rip into this week's stellar Web content, please indulge a little horn tooting: After only two months of the new ForeignPolicy.com, we've tripled our Web traffic. (Thanks to all you Passport die-hards for your help on that front.)

FP's nose-to-the-news bloggers were all over the Chas Freeman saga -- not that they agreed with each other. The Cable's Laura Rozen got the scoop from the man himself, and Walt and Rothkopf duked it out over the Israel lobby. In addition to another appointment gone wrong, the Obama White House was plagued with unfortunate tidings. It was snub city all over again, this time for the president of Brazil, and the Germany chicken finger thing is just...wrong. (But FP editor Preeti Aroon tells us that Sasha and Malia do have a new swing set.) 

If you hadn't previously considered Copenhagen's drug gangs or Japan's eldery to be super threats, you need to check out this week's List and if you were thinking of heading to Cancun for spring break don't pack your bags before paging through our latest Photo Essay.

Other items not to miss: What's going on in Ireland, why our governments are paying billions for military weapons we don't need, Tom Ricks delivered food-for-thought nuggets all week long, and David Rothkopf enlightens us with new medical research that shows how sudden changes in the economy can kill us, for real. 

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