Africa
The Chinese-African Union
Why is China spending $200 million for this new over-the-top headquarters for the African Union?
MARCH 19, 2012
100 Million Viewers Can't Be Wrong
How Kony 2012 succeeded beyond our wildest expectations.
BY ADAM FINCK | MARCH 16, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
Obama takes a basketball break with buddy David Cameron, Japan marks the earthquake anniversary, and a couple of bridges take a beating.
MARCH 16, 2012
The Goldilocks Principle
No one's perfect, and surely not President Obama. But in the rough and tumble world of foreign policy, it's hard to argue he hasn't done most things just about right.
BY AARON DAVID MILLER | MARCH 15, 2012
The Road to Hell Is Paved with Viral Videos
For all its goodwill, Invisible Children's Kony 2012 film is dangerous propaganda, pure and simple. It's not a call to make a notorious celebrity out of Joseph Kony -- it's a call to war.
BY DAVID RIEFF | MARCH 14, 2012
Let's Stop Miscasting Africans
Africans are way past the victim thing -- but Westerners don't seem to be there yet. A tale of two films.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 13, 2012
No Teacher Left Behind
The good news is that more kids are in school, and for longer, than ever before. But if we want them to actually learn something, it's time to focus on the teachers.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 12, 2012
A Recipe for Freedom
Five lessons from South Africa's transition to democracy. Excerpts from a recent speech by the country's ex-president.
BY F.W. DE KLERK | MARCH 12, 2012
Will the Good BRICS Please Stand Up?
You can call them respectable democracies, but India, Brazil, and South Africa will be judged by how they act abroad. And on the Syria question, it's been shameful.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 9, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
Mr. Netanyahu goes to Washington, Vladimir Putin's tearful election, and Prince Harry wins a race.
MARCH 8, 2012
The Personality Problem
In an age of globalization and revolutionary upheaval, grand impersonal forces might appear to be winning out. But don't discount the human factor.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 7, 2012
Onward and Upward
Why economics -- the dismal science -- is far too pessimistic when it comes to analyzing the amazing gains in poverty eradication.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MARCH 5, 2012
A Long Walk Through a Dry Country
Walking through a land of chronic hunger.
Photos by MIKE HETTWER | MARCH 2, 2012
The Global Health President
Why Rick Santorum would be great news for the AIDS fight in Africa.
BY JACK C. CHOW | FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Collateral Damage
The "war on terror" still casts a long shadow in some unlikely places.
BY PAUL SALOPEK | MARCH/APRIL 2012
10 Things You Didn't Know About Drones
When drones were created, how they're used, and what their future looks like.
BY MICAH ZENKO | MARCH/APRIL 2012
5-Star Hotels in 1-Star Countries
Enjoy your stay at the Serena Hotels, where plush lodgings meet deadly warzones.
FEBRUARY 27, 2012
Remembering Rémi Ochlik
The award-winning photography of the photojournalist killed in Syria.
FEBRUARY 22, 2012
Off the Beaten Path
Some of the best economic innovations come from places you wouldn't expect.
BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | FEBRUARY 16, 2012
Al Qaeda's Merger
Al Qaeda has joined forces with its Somali cousin, the insurgent-terrorist group al-Shabab.
BY J.M. BERGER | FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Obiang's Booby Prize
In France, UNESCO may finally reject the African dictator's vanity prize; in the United States, his high-spending son fights to keep feds from seizing a Malibu mansion.
BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Embarrassment of Riches
Natural resources would seem to promise easy money. Welcome to the dark side.
BY PETER PASSELL | FEBRUARY 9, 2012
The Little Economy That Could
If you're looking for an unlikely economic success story, you can hardly do better than Mauritius.
BY JEFFREY FRANKEL | FEBRUARY 2, 2012
The Pop Star and the President
Will West Africa's biggest music star and Senegal's octogenarian president-for-life learn to sing along -- or is the country on the edge of discord?
BY TIM JUDAH | JANUARY 31, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
The Chinese New Year, the anniversary of the Arab Spring, and Angela Merkel's golden goose.
JANUARY 27, 2012
Guns and Butter
Countries around the world are finding that military involvement in private business is a major barrier to reform. But pensioning off CEOs in uniform is easier said than done.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 24, 2012
Soldiers of Conscience
The Egyptian military insists it supports the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak. So why are these men still in prison?
BY PATRICK GALEY | JANUARY 24, 2012
Girl Power and the Fragility Trap
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 20, 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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