Letters

Springtime in Kabul

While the media obsessed over the missteps, Afghans were building a better future.

MAY/JUNE 2013

Minority Report

Should presidents seek out dissent?

MAY/JUNE 2013

Freedom's March

History might not be ending, but democracy is still gaining ground.

MAY/JUNE 2013

Mission Creep

Charles Kenny is too quick to encourage people to give up their privacy.

MAY/JUNE 2013

Storming the Hill

Thomas P.M. Barnett lets the White House off the hook for the Pentagon's dysfunction.

MAY/JUNE 2013

Obama's Grand Strategy

America's relative decline means that defense and social spending will have to compete head to head, but that isn't necessarily a bad thing. 

MARCH 4, 2013

Republican Reincarnation

The GOP needs to let go of myths about its past to move forward.

MARCH 4, 2013

Mind the Gap

Charles Kenny is too quick to call off the clash of civilizations.

MARCH 4, 2013

We're All Declinist Pundits These Days; Recession-Proof

FP's "Who Won the Great Recession?" package elicits reflections on U.S.-China power dynamics and how to succeed in business during hard times.

JANUARY 2, 2013

Currency War

Debating Robert Zoellick's vision for reintegrating economics into U.S. foreign policy. 

JANUARY 2, 2013

Security Studies

The Honduran ambassador to the United States responds to James Verini.

JANUARY 2, 2013

Why Work?

Will working less really make America more productive? 

JANUARY 2, 2013

BRIC by BRIC

Can these very different countries really manage to work together?

JANUARY 2, 2013

Syrians Are War Correspondents, Too

A response to Terry Anderson's "Running Toward Danger."

BY AMAL HANANO | OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Biggest Liars

If politicians are unusually dishonest, we citizens bear some of the responsibility.

NOVEMBER 2012

Raw Deal

Two top economists challenge Michael Grunwald's claim that Barack Obama's stimulus worked.

NOVEMBER 2012

In Defense of Le Corbusier

The architect would have influenced Chinese cities for the better -- if he'd had the chance.

NOVEMBER 2012

What's Chinese for 'Irrational Exuberance'?

China's explosive urban growth may not be sustainable.

NOVEMBER 2012

Boom Time

Energy independence is in the United States' reach.

SEPT/OCT 2012

Revolutionary Calculus

Hussein Ibish is too quick to dismiss the Arab Spring as a failure.

SEPT/OCT 2012

Failed States Index

The troubling ambiguity of FP's rankings. Plus: Finland comes in last for once.

SEPT/OCT 2012

Assessing Hillary

Is America's 67th secretary of state a Seward or a Powell?

SEPT/OCT 2012

A Matter of Degrees

Do we really want multinational companies selling harmful lifestyles in the developing world?

JULY/AUGUST 2012

Terrorized

Facts on the ground just don't square with talk of an al Qaeda comeback.

JULY/AUGUST 2012

The Persian Gulf

The divide between young Iranians and the regime is widening every day.

JULY/AUGUST 2012

Visualizing the War on Women Debate

A look at how the most popular cover story in Foreign Policy's history ricocheted across Twitter.

JULY/AUGUST 2012

Let's Talk About Sex

Four takes on Mona Eltahawy's cover piece on misogyny in the Middle East and Foreign Policy's inaugural Sex Issue.

JULY/AUGUST 2012

Campaign Literature

Barack Obama is much stronger on foreign policy than Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie suggest.

APRIL 23, 2012

War and Peace

Do we need to take cyberattacks more seriously?

MAY/JUNE 2012

Trust But Verify

How important is representative data in human rights work?

MAY/JUNE 2012