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Bed, Bath & Bribes
IKEA's struggle to do business in Putin's Russia.
BY ALEXANDER OSIPOVICH | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
The Global Dream
With the global rise of the celebrity CEO, some new stories are being told.
BY MICHAEL SKAPINKER | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
Fire in the Hole
How India's economic rise turned an obscure communist revolt into a raging resource war.
BY JASON MIKLIAN, SCOTT CARNEY | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
Slumdog Billionaires
Two autobiographies show how India's new Rockefellers made it big.
BY SADANAND DHUME | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
Googlopolis
Eric Schmidt tells FP what makes a city smart, how not to lose $1 trillion -- and the one place he's never been.
INTERVIEW BY CHRISTINA LARSON | SEPT. / OCT. 2010
Don't Try This at Home
You can't build a new Silicon Valley just anywhere.
BY MARGARET O'MARA | SEPT. / OCT. 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
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
Somali Militants Live-Tweet Their Deadly Attack on U.N. Compound
BY COLUM LYNCH
Navy Responds to Cap'n Crunch Scandal
BY MICHAEL PECK
Obama's Fishy Explanation for Calling Britain's Finance Minister the Wrong Name
BY ALICIA P.Q. WITTMEYER
Assange Struggles to Remain Relevant in Snowden Affair
BY ELIAS GROLL
The Flesh-Eating Parasite That's Sweeping Across Syria
BY ERIN BANCO
Chinese Cyberspies Use PRISM (and Petraeus) As Bait
BY JOHN REED
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