Africa
Gorging on Investment, Choking on Red Tape
Academic economists usually air their new ideas first in working papers. Here, before the work gets dusty, a quick look at transition policy research in progress.
BY PETER PASSELL | JANUARY 4, 2013
Edge of the World
For one journalist embarking on a seven-year journey to retrace the footsteps of early humans, the biggest obstacles are man-made.
BY PAUL SALOPEK | JANUARY 2, 2013
Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?
The story of how the World Bank's investment arm hands out billions in loans to wealthy tycoons and giant multinationals in some of the world's poorest places.
BY CHERYL STRAUSS EINHORN | JANUARY 2, 2013
The Nudgy State
How five governments are using behavioral economics to encourage citizens to do the right thing.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 2, 2013
My Enemy, Myself
Who's your enemy? Why fight? Over the course of three years, Belgian-Tunisian photojournalist Karim Ben Khelifa has traveled to both sides of the world's longest-simmering conflicts to ask these pointed questions. What he heard from combatants in the Gaza Strip, the disputed Kashmir region along the India-Pakistan border, and tribally divided South Sudan captures the futility of wars that never end -- and can't be won. Tragically, bitter rivals are often fighting for the very same reasons.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY KARIM BEN KHELIFA | JANUARY 2, 2013
10 Conflicts to Watch in 2013
From Turkey to Congo, next year's wars threaten global stability.
BY LOUISE ARBOUR | DECEMBER 27, 2012
What Africa Did Right in 2012
Africans are getting better at finding their own solutions to African problems.
BY JON TEMIN | DECEMBER 20, 2012
Pirates of the Guinean
How West Africa is replacing Somalia as the new pirate lair.
BY THIERRY VIRCOULON | DECEMBER 20, 2012
Closed Book
Why won't the Obama administration back a treaty to make reading more accessible for the visually impaired?
BY JINA MOORE | DECEMBER 17, 2012
The 7 Deadly Sins of Congo's Peace Process
Congo is an object lesson in how not to resolve conflicts. It's time we changed that.
BY JOHN PRENDERGAST | DECEMBER 7, 2012
Egypt's Economy: The Downside to Growth
Mubarak may be gone, but his economic policies still haunt Egyptians.
BY MAGDA KANDIL | DECEMBER 5, 2012
The Migrant Money Machine
The developed world could make a big difference to the global economy simply by helping migrants to do what comes naturally: send money home.
BY PETER PASSELL | DECEMBER 4, 2012
Waiting for the Rain
In the impenetrable Dogon highlands of Mali, the storm of war is coming.
BY PETER CHILSON | DECEMBER 4, 2012
In Rebel Country
How did 1,000 skinny militiamen in rubber boots conquer a city of 1 million people in a matter of hours?
BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 27, 2012
The Battle for Goma
Once again, the Democratic Republic of the Congo has descended into chaos.
NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Who Shot A.A.?
Mauritanians are still wondering who fired a gun at their country’s president. What the latest whodunit tells us about the state of democracy in a strategic corner of West Africa.
BY ALEX THURSTON | NOVEMBER 27, 2012
Can You Save Diplomacy From Itself?
Carne Ross's quixotic crusade to help emerging nations get their seat at the table.
BY CRISTINA ODONE | NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Africa's Human Capital
In Sub-Saharan Africa, the best resources are the people.
BY DANIEL ALTMAN | NOVEMBER 26, 2012
The New Breakout Nations
Forget the BRICs. Meet seven unheralded countries to watch.
BY RUCHIR SHARMA | DECEMBER 2012
That Other War
The bloody conflict you didn't read about this week is in Congo, and it threatens to redraw the map of Africa.
BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | NOVEMBER 20, 2012
The World Is Not Enough
Why does the planet's No. 1 spy never go to the really dangerous places?
BY FRANK JACOBS | NOVEMBER 15, 2012
The Africa Surprise
From deadly cross-border conflicts to emboldened terrorist franchises, Barack Obama will confront a host of challenges in Africa during his second term.
BY JOHN PRENDERGAST | NOVEMBER 9, 2012
What You Missed While You Were Refreshing Drudge and FiveThirtyEight
A guide to the world news you should get caught up on now that the election is over.
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Nightmare Squared
Longing for the days of Kim Jong Il? Maybe it's time to transfer your affections to the delusional dictator of Equatorial Guinea.
BY PEDRO PIZANO | NOVEMBER 6, 2012
Back to Africa
If Barack Obama is reelected, he'll have to deliver on his promises to Africa -- and act more like Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.
BY MVEMBA PHEZO DIZOLELE | NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Prosperity Isn't Just a Matter of Wealth
Man does not live by GDP alone. An introduction to the Legatum Institute's latest Prosperity Index.
BY PETER PASSELL | NOVEMBER 2, 2012
Littoral Combat Clip
The U.S. military needs to prepare for more operations along the world's coastlines.
BY LT. GEN. RICHARD MILLS | NOVEMBER 1, 2012
One Storm Away
10 major world cities that could end up underwater.
BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER | OCTOBER 31, 2012
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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