Business

Who Killed the Climate Bill?

We asked the experts who is to blame.

JULY 23, 2010

Papandreou’s Odyssey

The Greek prime minister has gone from leader of the socialist party to wielding the axe against entitlements -- and his long journey has just begun. In an exclusive interview, George Papandreou looks to the future and talks to FP about the Herculean tasks ahead.

INTERVIEW BY BENJAMIN PAUKER | JULY 19, 2010

Who Else Is to Blame?

From security short falls to lack of government accountibility, Mo Ibrahim, Paul Wolfowitz, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, Bruce Babbitt, and Raymond C. Offenheiser explain those contributing factors that cripple societies and inevitably keep failed states failing.

JULY/AUGUST 2010

Are Rare Earth Elements Actually Rare?

Not if you're willing to dig for them.

BY CHARLES HOMANS | JUNE 15, 2010

From Land Mines to Copper Mines

Will Afghanistan's mineral wealth rescue the country from decades of instability and poverty? It just might -- and here's how.

BY MICHAEL L. ROSS | JUNE 15, 2010

Gasbags

Politicians, oilmen, and green-energy boosters love to invoke the idea of energy security. None of them know what they're talking about.

BY MICHAEL LEVI | JUNE 15, 2010

Countries Without Doctors?

How Obamacare could spark the brain drain of physicians from the developing world.

BY KATE TULENKO | JUNE 11, 2010

Russia's New Privatization

The country's universities are moribund and behind the times. Can Moscow's entrepreneurs and philanthropists build something better?

BY JULIA IOFFE | JUNE 4, 2010

Europe Bought Time and Not Much Else

The bailout may soothe markets, but it won't fix the fundamental problems that have pushed Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Italy to the brink.

BY URI DADUSH, MOISÉS NAÍM | MAY 11, 2010

Don't Panic, Go Organic

Be not troubled by Robert Paarlberg's scaremongering. Organic practices can feed the world -- better, in fact, than wasteful industrial farming.

BY ANNA LAPPÉ | APRIL 29, 2010

Goldman Envy

Wall Street's copycats are even worse than the original.

BY SUZANNE MCGEE | APRIL 28, 2010

Epiphanies: Jacqueline Novogratz

When Jacqueline Novogratz first traveled to Africa in 1986, she meant business -- the serious business of sharing her entrepreneurial know-how with the poor. Now, the founder of the Acumen Fund, a nonprofit venture capital firm that works in developing countries, tells FP why she first went abroad and why it's time to end the culture of handouts.  

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MAY/JUNE 2010

Africa's Cyber WMD

Think that Russia and China pose the biggest hacking threats of our time? The virus-plagued computers in Africa could take the entire world economy offline.

BY FRANZ-STEFAN GADY | MARCH 24, 2010

Japan's Hunt For Whaling Rights

Is Tokyo buying support for its right to catch whales?

BY CHRISTIAN DIPPEL | MARCH 4, 2010

Uribe Checks Out

Washington's most reliable ally in Latin America, the Colombian president, is on his way out. That's a good thing.

BY ADAM ISACSON | MARCH 4, 2010

China's Hacker Army

The myth of a monolithic Chinese cyberwar is starting to be dismantled. A look inside the teeming, chaotic world that exists instead -- and that may be far more dangerous.

BY MARA HVISTENDAHL | MARCH 3, 2010

A Light at the End of the Tunnel in Congo

Yes, it may look like the worst hell on Earth. But there are signs that the decades-long resource war in Central Africa could be shifting for the better -- if only the West stops bankrolling it.

BY JOHN PRENDERGAST | FEBRUARY 26, 2010

How Locavores Could Save the World

The latest yuppie craze could do more than just cut emissions -- it might also help feed the poor.

BY FELIX SALMON | FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Greek Disease

Inside the new sick man of Europe.

BY NICOLE ITANO | FEBRUARY 19, 2010

How to Fix Haiti’s Fixers

Aid groups in the earthquake-battered country are inefficient and unaccountable. Luckily, there’s a solution.

BY PAUL COLLIER | FEBRUARY 18, 2010

China's New Free-Market Energy Policies

As Washington and Beijing spar over free speech, the Dalai Lama, and Taiwan, here's one thing they are no longer likely to fight about: the world's oil supplies.

BY STEPHEN GLAIN | FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Big Trouble With Big China

From Washington to Beijing, relations are looking more tense than ever. Here's a guide to which disputes matter -- and which are likely to blow over fast.

BY JOHN LEE | FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Internet Freedom

The prepared text of U.S. of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's speech, delivered at the Newseum in Washington, D.C.

JANUARY 21, 2010

The End of Influence

For as long as many can remember, the United States has been the country with money, influence, and power. But all that is changing, write Brad DeLong and Stephen Cohen in their new book, The End of Influence. FP excerpts exclusively here.

BY BRAD DELONG, STEPHEN COHEN | DECEMBER 23, 2009

Coal for Christmas

The World Bank is still subsidizing one of the world's dirtiest fuels.

BY PHIL RADFORD | DECEMBER 22, 2009

Crude Is the New Carbon

Since the world can't seem to agree on cutting carbon emissions, maybe it's time to try an easier but equally important target: oil.

BY GAL LUFT | DECEMBER 22, 2009

The $2 Trillion Man

How Obama saved Brand America.

BY SIMON ANHOLT | DECEMBER 17, 2009

Get Your Canned Goods, Umbrellas, and Knock-off Pumas Here!

How Chinese merchants have become the anonymous Sam Waltons to the world's hardest-to-reach consumers.

BY FELIX B. CHANG | DECEMBER 9, 2009

Banking on Coal

Why is the World Bank subsidizing one of the planet's dirtiest fuels?

BY PHIL RADFORD | DECEMBER 9, 2009

This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly

Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff know financial crises. In the preamble to their book, recommended by FP Big Thinkers Willem Buiter and Mohamed El-Erian, the two trace back the history of how, with each shock and economic trouble, the world believes that this time is different. It's not.

BY CARMEN M. REINHART, KENNETH ROGOFF | DECEMBER 3, 2009