Opening Gambit

In Defense of Leading from Behind

So what if it's a terrible slogan? It's still the right strategy.

BY LESLIE H. GELB | MAY/JUNE 2013

One Step Forward, Two Steps Back

Democracy is in retreat. And there's a surprising culprit.

BY JOSHUA KURLANTZICK | MARCH 4, 2013

Geek Squad

How behavioral scientists could make Obama's second term a success.

BY RICHARD THALER | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Qatar Bubble

Can this tiny, rich emirate really solve the Middle East's thorniest political conflicts?

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | MAY/JUNE 2012

After America

How does the world look in an age of U.S. decline? Dangerously unstable.

BY ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI | JAN/FEB 2012

Millions May Die ... Or Not.

How disaster hype became a big global business.

BY DAVID RIEFF | SEPT/OCT 2011

The Revolution Will Be Tweeted

Life in the vanguard of the new Twitter proletariat.

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | JULY/AUGUST 2011

So Long, Chicken Little

The 9 most annoying sky-is-falling clichés in American foreign policy.

BY MICHAEL LIND | MARCH/APRIL 2011

Frenemies Forever

How Washington stopped worrying and learned to love Saudi Arabia, again.

BY STEVE LEVINE | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011

Opening Gambit: Moore's Flaw

Why the tech industry's unbridled optimism won't save the world.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | NOVEMBER 2010

Best. Decade. Ever.

The first 10 years of the 21st century were humanity's finest -- even for the world's bottom billion.

BY CHARLES KENNY | SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Bubble Bath

People didn't drown the markets; a bad system did.

BY CHRYSTIA FREELAND | JULY/AUGUST 2010

Bomb Scare

The world has a lot of problems. An exploding population isn't one of them.  

BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY/JUNE 2010

The Elephant in the Room

The biggest pain in Asia isn't the country you'd think.

BY BARBARA CROSSETTE | JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010

My Secret Plan to Overthrow the Mullahs

TK

BY LARRY FRANKLIN | OCTOBER 19, 2009

Playing With a Full Deck

Lessons about nuclear deterrence from the poker table.

BY JAMES MCMANUS | SEPT. / OCT. 2009

Nowhere Man

Why Ban Ki-moon is the world's most dangerous Korean.

BY JACOB HEILBRUNN | JULY/AUG 2009

Dangerous Leviathans

The 21st century must be -- if we are to survive it -- an age that all nations, including Russia, understand as ill-suited to Hobbesian philosophy.

BY STROBE TALBOTT | APRIL 15, 2009