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How to Stop a Nuclear War

What the Cuban missile crisis teaches us about facing down North Korea.

BY MICHAEL DOBBS | APRIL 5, 2013

David Stockman’s Dystopia

Why Reagan’s former budget chief is like a crazy person howling in the wind. Let’s ignore him.

BY JARED BERNSTEIN | APRIL 5, 2013

Why Dictators Don’t Like Jokes

Pro-democracy activists around the world are discovering that humor is one of the most powerful weapons in the fight against authoritarianism.

BY SRDJA POPOVIC, MLADEN JOKSIC | APRIL 5, 2013

The Millennium Development Goals Are Working

The world has made great strides in combating extreme poverty. But it’s time to set a new horizon.

BY JOHN PODESTA | APRIL 5, 2013

Mongolia's Growing Pains

Mongolia's blue skies may soon be darkening. A key challenge: Putting the mining companies in their place. 

BY PETER MURRELL | APRIL 5, 2013

A Weapon of Minor Destruction

How Eric Harroun, the American jihadist in Syria, was duped by the FBI into incriminating himself.

BY ROBERT YOUNG PELTON | APRIL 4, 2013

Kowtow Now

Why foreign companies need to swallow their pride and get used to apologizing to China.

BY DAVID WOLF | APRIL 4, 2013

The Ayatollah in His Labyrinth

The competing forces in Iran's political system are poised to collide in this summer's presidential election.

BY ABBAS MILANI | APRIL 4, 2013

Living Up to the Statue

After two decades of advocacy, we finally have a U.N. Arms Trade Treaty.

BY HEATHER HURLBURT | APRIL 3, 2013

Tell Me How This Starts

What war on the Korean Peninsula would look like.

BY PATRICK M. CRONIN | APRIL 3, 2013

Patently Reasonable

India's Supreme Court has ruled against Big Pharma and for the country's generic drug companies. But who's the big winner in the end?

BY MIRANDA KENNEDY | APRIL 3, 2013

Humility Now!

The miseducation of Jackson Diehl.

BY NADA BAKOS | APRIL 2, 2013

The North Korea Deal That Wasn't

I heard Pyongyang make a real offer -- but the Obama White House didn't even listen.

BY JOEL WIT | APRIL 2, 2013

Make Way for the Hybrids

Yes, institutions are important. But institutions that actually work are even better.

BY MATT ANDREWS | APRIL 2, 2013

Is This a Pandemic Being Born?

China's mysterious pig, duck, and people deaths could be connected. And that should worry us.

BY LAURIE GARRETT | APRIL 1, 2013

After Mandela

There will never be another Nelson Mandela, but maybe that’s just what South Africa needs to save itself from ruin.

BY ROY ROBINS | MARCH 29, 2013

Can Francis Bring the Church Back From the Dead?

The pope's foot baths were not just a masterstroke of public relations -- they were the opening salvo of a serious campaign to revive the Catholic Church.

BY ANDREW CHESNUT | MARCH 29, 2013

Slow Apology

Why did it take so long for Israel to say sorry for the flotilla raid?

BY SUZANNE NOSSEL | MARCH 29, 2013

March Madness

The top sports cinderella stories vs. the best from world history.

BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | MARCH 29, 2013

Losing the Senate

Carl Levin's retirement is the latest blow to a smart foreign policy.

BY NORM ORNSTEIN | MARCH 29, 2013

Metro Diplomacy

The State Department is engaging the world’s growing cities like never before. A top U.S. diplomat explains why.

BY ROBERT D. HORMATS | MARCH 28, 2013

Fringe Following

What does Big Data tell us about white supremacists?

BY J.M. BERGER | MARCH 28, 2013

China’s Glass Ceiling

Sure, the Middle Kingdom is becoming a superpower, but it's always going to be No. 2.

BY GEOFF DYER | MARCH 28, 2013

Beyond Business: Rethinking Microfinance

Banking can do more good for the poor than only helping entrepreneurs.

BY TIMOTHY OGDEN, JONATHAN MORDUCH | MARCH 28, 2013

Walking the Talk

How Pope Francis can really help the poor -- and why he'll help the Catholic Church, too, in the process.

BY CHRIS BAIN | MARCH 27, 2013

'Face' and Something 'Delicious'

What Mao and Stalin’s first awkward meeting tells us about Xi Jinping’s confident trip to see Vladimir Putin.

BY SERGEY RADCHENKO | MARCH 27, 2013

Can the Marines Survive?

If America's amphibious force doesn't adapt, it'll be dead in the water.

BY LT. COL. LLOYD FREEMAN | MARCH 26, 2013

The Final Frontier

For savvy investors looking to diversify their portfolios, there’s only one place left to go: sub-Saharan Africa.

BY TODD MOSS , ROSS THUOTTE | MARCH 26, 2013

Springtime for Salafists

Rampaging Islamist vigilantes are cracking down on free expression -- and ruining Tunisia's Arab Spring.

BY DAVEED GARTENSTEIN-ROSS | MARCH 26, 2013

The Appeal of the Courts

Actually, we've already figured out how to win the legal war on terrorism.

BY PHILLIP CARTER, DEBORAH PEARLSTEIN | MARCH 25, 2013