Letters

Food Aid: Stuff People Need

Ambassador Ertharin Cousin and Nancy Lindborg say U.S. food aid has come a long way since serving as a means of donating surplus commodities.

JAN/FEB 2012

Food or Cash?

According to the Catholic Relief Services, food aid can still do a great deal of good.

JAN/FEB 2012

Taking Exception

America's founding principles make the country unique, argues Marion Smith.

JAN/FEB 2012

Terms of Service

Would the United States really be better off with six-year presidential terms?

JAN/FEB 2012

Nuclear Fantasy

The executive director of Greenpeace International argues that the world needs less nuclear power, not more.

JAN/FEB 2012

It's Party Time

Historian Lewis L. Gould says that James Traub is taknig the Republican contendors too seriously.

JAN/FEB 2012

Plan Afghanistan Can Work

Colombia's former president says that the U.S. counterterrorism model from Latin America can work in Central Asia -- but only if the civil sector gets involved.

BY ALVARO URIBE VÉLEZ | DECEMBER 13, 2011

The Numbers Game

U.N. spokesperson Elisabeth Byrs writes that David Rieff's accusations of casualty count inflation are unfair.

NOVEMBER 2011

Sea Change

The Cato Institute's Ted Galen Carpenter asks whether the United States can afford the naval confrontation with China envisioned by Robert Kaplan.

NOVEMBER 2011

Duchy of Hazard

Fernand Grulms of Luxembourg's national financial center is not amused by Eric Pape's tongue-in-cheek take on the country.

NOVEMBER 2011

The Jihad Deficit

Terrorism scholar Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says Charles Kurzman is underestimating the threat al Qaeda will pose in the coming decade.

NOVEMBER 2011

Dept. of Irony

Some readers didn't quite get our joke.

NOVEMBER 2011

Waiting for the Revolutions

Don't blame the experts who didn't see the Arab Spring coming.

NOVEMBER 2011

Love and Robots

Artificial intelligence expert David Levy says relationships with robots might be even more complicated than Ayesha and Parag Khanna assume.

NOVEMBER 2011

Letter: Our Government Works Just Fine, Thanks

The president of Taiwan's legislative body responds to being called out on charges of parliamentary funk.

BY JIN-PYNG WANG | SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Dear President Mbeki: The United Nations Helped Save the Ivory Coast

By sticking to internationally recognized principles, the U.N. was able to restore the rule of law in the embattled West African state.

BY VIJAY NAMBIAR | AUGUST 17, 2011

Going for Gorby

The not-so-lame afterlife of the Soviet Union's last leader.

SEPT/OCT 2011

Moral Revolutions

The pursuit of truth and goodness is more complicated than it seems -- especially in Russia.

SEPT/OCT 2011

My Soft Power

The top 10 reasons why Joe Nye's books keep landing on the recommended reading list for U.S. presidents.

SEPT/OCT 2011

Gangster's Paradise

Why we have to use the language of corruption when we talk about politics in Russia

SEPT/OCT 2011

We Demand a Recount

The country is developing, not failing.

SEPT/OCT 2011

Is Israel Really America's Ally?

Maybe it's time for them to see other people.

JULY/AUGUST 2011

The End of Hunger

Cut the development NGOs some slack.

JULY/AUGUST 2011

Food Fight

The new geopolitics of agriculture aren't new.

JULY/AUGUST 2011

Marketing a 'Miracle'

Has Medellín's resurgence been oversold?

JULY/AUGUST 2011

Talking the Talk

South Africans aren't the only ones keeping quiet about AIDS.

JULY/AUGUST 2011

Losing Obama

Hamid Karzai's biggest problem isn't his relationship with the United States, but with his own country.

MAY/JUNE 2011

Is Our Kids Getting Dumber?

Actually, the U.S. really should care about its schoolchildren's international competitiveness.

MAY/JUNE 2011

The Right War

Gen. Stanley McChrystal needs to acknowledge that the battle for Afghanistan belongs to the Afghans.

MAY/JUNE 2011

A Tale of Two Viruses

The dangerous business of comparing cyber and bio attacks to each other.

MAY/JUNE 2011