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Embarrassment of Riches
Natural resources would seem to promise easy money. Welcome to the dark side.
BY PETER PASSELL | FEBRUARY 9, 2012
Forest Bump
The global economic crisis is good news for trees, but how can we make sure the gains keep coming?
BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 23, 2012
¿El Presidente?
Mitt Romney could be the first Latino president. So why is he blowing it?
BY LARRY KAPLOW | JANUARY 11, 2012
War Dogs, Boomtowns, and Dead Dictators
Foreign Policy’s most popular photo essays of 2011.
DECEMBER 28, 2011
To the Barricades
From Tahrir Square to Wall Street to the Kremlin, 2011 was a year when politics was conducted in the street.
DECEMBER 14, 2011
Next Year, in Review
From the fall of Ahmadinejad, Assad, Castro, and Chavez to the rise of cyberattacks -- the top 13 stories that could dominate the headlines in 2012.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | DECEMBER 12, 2011
Rise of the TIMBIs
Forget the BRICs. The real economies that will shake up the world over the next few decades need a new acronym.
BY JACK A. GOLDSTONE | DECEMBER 2, 2011
Does Facebook Have a Foreign Policy?
The social networking giant has the power to change the world for the better. But does it want to?
BY DAVID KIRKPATRICK | NOVEMBER 28, 2011
Head of the Class?
From Harvard to Pacific Western, a look at the sometimes surprising U.S. universities that have educated today’s new crop of world leaders.
BY URI FRIEDMAN, KEDAR PAVGI | NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Haiti Doesn't Need Your Yoga Mat
A visual history of the West's misguided attempts to send its hand-me-downs to the developing world.
OCTOBER 11, 2011
Cocacabana
Brazil may be rising, but in Rio's favelas, drugs, crime, and killing are a way of life. A Hipstamatic tour -- deep inside the gritty, gang-ridden streets -- where few outsiders dare to tread.
BY JARED P. MOOSSY | SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
How the West Was Drilled
From Alberta to the Brazilian Coast, a tour of the new American oil frontier that could eclipse the Middle East.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | AUGUST 17, 2011
Rumble in the Jungle
In Colombia, FARC operations are on the rise as the guerrilla movement changes strategy and returns to its insurgent roots.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JULY 26, 2011
Cancer Ward
With Hugo Chavez ailing, Venezuelans are just starting to realize how dependent they've become on him.
BY PETER WILSON | JULY 12, 2011
If Hugo Goes
It's unclear whether the charismatic Venezuelan president is really all that ill. But what is clear is that his country is in serious trouble, whether or not he returns from convalescing in Cuba.
BY MICHAEL SHIFTER | JUNE 28, 2011
Legalizing Drugs Won't Stop Mexico's Brutal Cartels
Like all good multinational businesses, they've diversified.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 22, 2011
Interview: Álvaro Uribe
Colombia's former president tells FP how his country came back from the brink, why he's staying in politics, and why it's dangerous (but worth it) to be on Twitter.
INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MAY 17, 2011
A Market for Good
Why American workers need the U.S.-Colombia free trade agreement.
BY MAX BAUCUS | APRIL 22, 2011
WikiLosers
Julian Assange said WikiLeaks would change the world. At the very least, it changed these people's lives forever.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 25, 2011
Dilma's Secrets
In digging for dirt on Brazil's new president, a group of journalists and scholars may have come uncomfortably close to a more serious truth about a whole country.
BY TAYLOR BARNES | DECEMBER 30, 2010
New Year's Resolutions for World Leaders
What Barack Obama, Vladimir Putin, and Hu Jintao should be promising to do in 2011 -- but probably won't.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 30, 2010
The Tea Party's Vendetta
After two years of Obama's foreign policy pragmatism toward Latin America, Republicans in Congress are threatening to turn back the clock to Cold War times. That would be a disaster for the United States and its neighbors.
BY BERNARDO ÁLVAREZ HERRERA | DECEMBER 7, 2010
The Soft-Power Power
Susan Glasser, Foreign Policy's editor in chief, met Foreign Minister Celso Amorim in
Brasilia for a wide-ranging conversation on Brazil's role as the rest rises.
Below, the edited excerpts.
INTERVIEW BY SUSAN GLASSER | DECEMBER 2010
New U.N. Report Reveals a Smarter, Healthier -- Yet More Unequal -- World
On the 20th anniversary of the world's most in-depth country ranking, the U.N. Human Development Index finds that global progress is largely on track. But those left behind are more numerous than ever.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 4, 2010
Waiting for the Dilmismo to Begin
Brazil just elected its first-ever female president -- so where's the party?
BY TAYLOR BARNES | NOVEMBER 1, 2010
Death of a Gambler
Argentina's high-stakes former president Nestor Kirchner will continue to be larger than life, even in death.
BY ANNA PETHERICK | OCTOBER 29, 2010
The World's Jon Stewarts
The Daily Show star has it easy. An FP List of the world's most influential political satirists shows that in dangerous places, telling jokes can be hazardous to your health.
BY MAX STRASSER | OCTOBER 18, 2010
Becoming Lula
Brazil looks set to elect its first female president, a former Marxist guerrilla fighter turned grandmother and cancer survivor. But she has big shoes to fill.
BY ANNA PETHERICK | OCTOBER 1, 2010
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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