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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: 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: Libya
More than a month after the first bombs fell on Muammar al-Qaddafi's forces, the assumptions that led the United States into the war have mostly been proven wrong -- and a strategy to end it is still nowhere in sight.
BY MICAH ZENKO | APRIL 28, 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
Think Again: Egypt
From the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood to the Arab autocracy domino theory, five myths about Egypt's revolution.
BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | FEBRUARY 14, 2011
Think Again: Global Aging
A gray tsunami is sweeping the planet -- and not just in the places you expect. How did the world get so old, so fast?
BY PHILLIP LONGMAN | NOVEMBER 2010
Think Again: The Afghan Surge
Ignore the hype: There's no panacea for the deteriorating U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan.
BY GILLES DORRONSORO | OCTOBER 7, 2010
Think Again: Offshore Drilling
President Obama told residents of the gulf states this weekend that he feels their pain. But the best way to help the gulf would be to let his ill-advised drilling moratorium expire early.
BY ERIC R.A.N. SMITH | AUGUST 30, 2010
Think Again: The Arctic
Everyone wants a piece of the thawing far north. But that doesn't mean anarchy will reign at the top of the world.
BY LAWSON W. BRIGHAM | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
Think Again: Ronald Reagan
The Gipper wasn't the warhound his conservative followers would have you think.
BY PETER BEINART | JULY/AUGUST 2010
Think Again: The Internet
They told us it would usher in a new era of freedom, political activism, and perpetual peace. They were wrong.
BY EVGENY MOROZOV | MAY/JUNE 2010
Think Again: Iran's Green Movement
It's a civil rights movement, not a revolution.
BY HOOMAN MAJD | JANUARY 6, 2010
Think Again: Nuclear Weapons
President Obama’s pledge to rid the world of atomic bombs is a waste of breath. But not for the reasons you might imagine.
BY JOHN MUELLER | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010
Think Again: Africom
U.S. Africa Command was launched to controversy and has been met with skepticism ever since. Behind two years of mixed messages, a coherent mission might finally be emerging. Here's what you need to know about the world's next U.S. military hub.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | NOVEMBER 17, 2009
Think Again: Brain Drain
The movement of skilled workers from poor countries to rich ones is nothing to fear. In the long run, it will benefit both.
BY MICHAEL A. CLEMENS, DAVID MCKENZIE | OCTOBER 22, 2009
Think Again: God
As causalities from the world's religious wars mount, God is getting a bad reputation. But the war against God has had its casualties as well. Here's why we need a truce -- and why secularism is almost as much of a threat to the world as fundamentalism.
BY KAREN ARMSTRONG | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2009
Inside the machinery of genocide
BY MICHAEL DOBBS
Iran isn't amused by Israeli Samsung ad
BY URI FRIEDMAN
Uganda's brutal crackdown on the press
BY DENIS BARNABAS
How Russia views the veto power
BY DAVID BOSCO
The coming civil war in Afghanistan
BY ARIF RAFIQ
Will cold weather shut down Russia's protests?
BY JOSHUA KEATING
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BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL
Should the Obama administration release another National Security Strategy?
BY PETER FEAVER
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