January 30, 2012 | Vol. 179, No. 4

COVER
The Strategist (United States)
The question isn't whether Barack Obama has been a good foreign policy President.
It's whether he can be a great one

'I Made a Commitment to Change the Trajectory Of American Foreign Policy'
(Interview)
President Obama spoke to TIME's Fareed Zakaria in the Oval Office on Jan. 18.
Excerpts:

WORLD
Brotherhood Rising
Banned by Hosni Mubarak, the Muslim Brotherhood persisted with politics. Now the
Islamist group is a primary factor in Egypt's new power equation

SCIENCE
Africa's Eye On the Sky: Behind a Radical New Radio Telescope (Space)
A new radio telescope could provide radically new insights into the origins of
everything. But it's the place the instrument may be built that's creating the
most excitement

ESSAY
Viewpoint: How India Would Like the World to See It
The nation is rapidly modernizing, but its age-old inefficiencies persist

WORLD
ECONOMYHow To Save Capitalism (Davos)
Something's gone wrong with the global economy. But there are ways to put things
back on track

Too Big to Save? (Viewpoint)
Bailouts hurt capitalism. How we can keep from needing them in the first place

Command and Control (Viewpoint)
Fixing capitalism means taking power back from business

A Profession at Sea (Viewpoint)
How to keep economists from missing the next financial crisis

COMMENTARY
The Right to Be Wrong
Legislating against offensive, incorrect views is a form of repression

TRAVEL
How to Spend Three Hours in Dﾃｼsseldorf (Roam)
Here's how to max them

Strawberry Hill in Jamaica: High but Not Mighty (Check In)
It may be a celebrity hangout, but at this Jamaican mountain hideaway, informality
rules

Cafﾃｩ des Spores: The Belgian Restaurant Putting Magic Back into Mushrooms
(Amuse-Bouche)
The Belgian restaurant that's putting magic back into mushrooms

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