Dispatch

Rubles in the Sun

Is Vladimir Putin the big winner of the Cypriot banking crisis?

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | MARCH 28, 2013

Welcome to Cocainebougou

Amid the drug palaces of northern Mali, it's easy to see why this war will be hard to win.

BY YOCHI DREAZEN | MARCH 27, 2013

The Arab League Actually Does Something

Once a laughingstock, the Arab world’s political body is closing ranks against Bashar al-Assad.

BY MICHAEL STEPHENS | MARCH 27, 2013

One of These BRICS Is Not Like the Other

South Africa is a mess. So why does it get to sit at the BRICS big boy table?

BY ROY ROBINS | MARCH 26, 2013

China’s Michelle Obama

Peng Liyuan is the first prominent Chinese first lady in decades. But does she matter?

BY PAUL FRENCH | MARCH 26, 2013

Why Pro Wrestling Is Perfect for the Modern Middle East

It’s safer than sex.

BY JUSTIN D. MARTIN | MARCH 22, 2013

The Long Shadow

Venezuela’s upcoming election features a young challenger against Hugo Chávez’s appointed successor -- who’s doing everything in his power to make the race about his dead boss.

BY PETER WILSON | MARCH 22, 2013

How the Catholic Church Lost Argentina

Was it the dirty war, the social conservatism, or both?

BY EMILY SCHMALL | MARCH 22, 2013

Can Yemen Talk Its Way to Peace?

As the country's National Dialogue kicks off this week, hope is in short supply.

BY FAREA AL-MUSLIMI, LAURA KASINOF | MARCH 22, 2013

In Power, But Not in Control

The Muslim Brotherhood may have the votes -- for now -- but Egypt is a ship without a rudder.

BY ERIC TRAGER | MARCH 21, 2013

Leaning Out

How the United States is abandoning Afghanistan's women.

BY AMIE FERRIS-ROTMAN | MARCH 20, 2013

The Clown Prince Across the Water

Could Boris Johnson actually end up as Britain's prime minister?

BY ALEX MASSIE | MARCH 20, 2013

A Government in Search of a Country

Can the newly appointed opposition prime minister form an interim government that Syrians can get behind?

BY JUSTIN VELA | MARCH 20, 2013

The Kenyatta Affair

What Kenya and its allies can learn from Austria’s Nazi legacy.

BY JAMES VERINI | MARCH 20, 2013

If a Tree Falls in Baghdad…

Ten years after the Iraq war, almost everything in this country -- from security to its place in the region -- is still in play.

BY JANE ARRAF | MARCH 19, 2013

The Jihadi from the Block

In the war for the heart of northern Mali, the real fear isn’t al Qaeda, it’s the criminals and fundamentalists lurking just around the corner.

BY PETER TINTI | MARCH 19, 2013

Mali's Bad Trip

Field notes from the West African drug trade.

BY ANDREW LEBOVICH | MARCH 15, 2013

The Beatified Game

How the new pope has blessed the long suffering soccer fans of Argentina’s Club Atlético San Lorenzo.

BY HALEY COHEN | MARCH 15, 2013

Xi Pivots to Moscow

What message is China's new leader sending with his first overseas trip?

BY JOHN GARNAUT | MARCH 14, 2013

Hot Pants

A visit to ousted Yemeni leader Ali Abdullah Saleh’s new presidential museum.

BY ADAM BARON | MARCH 14, 2013

Pressed

The propaganda war in Kuwait.

BY PETER MAASS | MARCH 12, 2013

Meet China’s New Foreign-Policy Team

Is Beijing using its latest appointments to send a message to Washington?

BY WILLY LAM | MARCH 8, 2013

A Tale of Two Chávezes

For those who loved and reviled Venezuela's president in equal measure, El Comandante leaves behind two very different legacies.

BY PETER WILSON | MARCH 8, 2013

Camelot in Tokyo

Can Caroline Kennedy shake up Japan’s sexist politics?

BY COCO MASTERS | MARCH 6, 2013

The End of an Icon

Venezuelans react to the death of their larger-than-life president.

BY PETER WILSON | MARCH 5, 2013

Mad Money

Why foreign aid is at the heart of civil war in Congo.

BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | MARCH 5, 2013

What Happened in Luvungi?

On rape and truth in Congo.

BY LAURA HEATON | MARCH 4, 2013

The Fall and Rise of Raila Odinga

In Kenya's contested election, the tortured past of family dynasty is alive but not quite well.

BY JAMES VERINI | MARCH 2, 2013

The Brotherhood vs. the Free Press

Egypt's new rulers are determined to tighten their grip on the media scene in Cairo. I should know -- they had me fired.

BY HANI SHUKRALLAH | MARCH 1, 2013

Vote M for Murder

In Kenya, politics is simply the continuation of war, by other means.

BY JAMES VERINI | FEBRUARY 26, 2013