Think Again

Think Again: European Decline

Sure, it may seem as if Europe is down and out. But things are far, far better than they look.

BY MARK LEONARD, HANS KUNDNANI | MAY/JUNE 2013

Think Again: Austerity

The big spenders are wrong: Maintaining sustainable budgets is essential to economic growth.

BY ANDERS ASLUND | APRIL 23, 2013

Think Again: Margaret Thatcher

The former British prime minister was a transformative politician. But her public image as an unblinking Iron Lady fails to do justice to her complexity.

BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | APRIL 8, 2013

Think Again: North Korea

North Korea is a lot more dangerous than you think, but that doesn't mean that Kim Jong Un is insane.

BY DAVID KANG, VICTOR CHA | MARCH 25, 2013

Think Again: The Pentagon

The military's Chicken Littles want you to think the sky is falling. Don't believe them: America has never been safer.

BY THOMAS P.M. BARNETT | MARCH 4, 2013

Think Again: Immigration

After Republicans' election-year drubbing, the United States has an historic opportunity to fix its broken immigration system. And the arguments against reform simply don't hold up anymore.

BY SHANNON O’NEIL | JANUARY 29, 2013

Think Again: The Muslim Brotherhood

How did so many Western analysts get Egypt's Islamist movement so wrong?

BY ERIC TRAGER | JANUARY 28, 2013

Think Again: The Republican Party

The future of the GOP -- after the debacle.

BY DANIELLE PLETKA | JANUARY 2, 2013

Think Again: The Bin Laden Raid

Six myths about President Obama's greatest foreign-policy success.

BY MARK BOWDEN | OCTOBER 15, 2012

Think Again: The BRICS

Together, their GDP now nearly equals the United States. But are they really the future of the global economy?

BY ANTOINE VAN AGTMAEL | NOVEMBER 2012

Think Again: Burma’s Economy

Burma is open for business, and foreign investors are champing at the bit. Time for a reality check.

BY JARED BISSINGER | SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Think Again: Obama's New Deal

The president's Republican critics are dead wrong. The stimulus worked.

BY MICHAEL GRUNWALD | SEPT/OCT 2012

Think Again: The Eurocrisis

Markets are crashing. The euro is hurting. Here's why the continent's financial crisis is even messier than it appears, and how the blowback could hit the United States in the face.

BY DAVID GORDON, DOUGLAS REDIKER | JULY 23, 2012

Think Again: The American
Energy Boom

Yes, oil and gas made in the USA is surging. But does that really liberate us from the Middle East?

BY MICHAEL LEVI | JULY/AUGUST 2012

Think Again: Al Qaeda

A year after Osama bin Laden's death, the obituaries for his terrorist group are still way too premature.

BY SETH G. JONES | MAY/JUNE 2012

Think Again: Cyberwar

Don't fear the digital bogeyman. Virtual conflict is still more hype than reality.

BY THOMAS RID | MARCH/APRIL 2012

Think Again: Microfinance

Small loans probably won't lift people out of poverty or empower women. But that doesn't mean they're useless.

BY DAVID ROODMAN | FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Think Again: Intelligence

I served in the CIA for 28 years and I can tell you: America's screw-ups come from bad leaders, not lousy spies.

BY PAUL R. PILLAR | JAN/FEB 2012

Think Again: Nuclear Power

Japan melted down, but that doesn't mean the end of the atomic age.

BY CHARLES D. FERGUSON | NOVEMBER 2011

Think Again: The Two-State Solution

Everyone knows an independent Palestine, side by side with Israel, is unworkable right now. But it's even more hopeless than they think.

BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Think Again: Nonviolent Resistance

Resisting the temptation to take up arms against a dictator isn't just the moral thing to do -- it's also the most effective way to win.

BY ERICA CHENOWETH | AUGUST 24, 2011

Think Again: War

World peace could be closer than you think.

BY JOSHUA S. GOLDSTEIN | SEPT/OCT 2011

Think Again: Failed States

On 9/11, the West woke up to the threat posed by failed states. But did we actually understand it?

BY JAMES TRAUB | JULY/AUGUST 2011

Think Again: Bob Gates

As the secretary of defense steps down, it's time to set aside the paeans and reconsider the conventional take on his tenure.

BY BENJAMIN H. FRIEDMAN, JUSTIN LOGAN | JUNE 3, 2011

Think Again: Al Qaeda

The world's most notorious terrorist organization was never quite what Americans thought it was -- and Osama bin Laden's death doesn't mean that it's down for the count.

BY DANIEL BYMAN | MAY 3, 2011

Think Again: Dictators

Arab autocrats may be tottering, 
but the world's tyrants aren't all quaking in their steel-toed boots.

BY GRAEME ROBERTSON | MAY/JUNE 2011

Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade

Why cracking down on Afghanistan's opium business won't help stop the Taliban -- or the United States' own drug problems.

BY JONATHAN P. CAULKINS, JONATHAN D. KULICK, AND MARK A.R. KLEIMAN | APRIL 1, 2011

Think Again: Latin America

America's backyard is no longer an afterthought -- or Washington's to claim.

BY MAURICIO CÁRDENAS | MARCH 17, 2011

Think Again: Arab Democracy

One of the world's foremost experts on democracy building debunks the myths surrounding the Arab world's new governments -- and wonders what sort of role the West should play.

BY THOMAS CAROTHERS | MARCH 10, 2011

Think Again: Education

Relax, America. Chinese math whizzes and Indian engineers aren't stealing your kids' future.

BY BEN WILDAVSKY | MARCH/APRIL 2011