Corruption

Ballot Gone Bad

Liberia's peaceful election has descended into chaos, conspiracy, and violence.

BY F. CHARLES YOUNG | NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Who's Bad Now?

The U.S. government is finally attempting to seize tens of millions of dollars in assets -- including a serious stash of Michael Jackson memorabilia -- from Equatorial Guinea's playboy president-in-waiting. Took long enough.

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | OCTOBER 25, 2011

An Islamist, a Liberal, and a Former Regime Loyalist Walk into a Cafe...

Three Libyans try to make sense of their country after Qaddafi.

BY RYAN CALDER | OCTOBER 21, 2011

Hold That Car

Exclusive: U.S. government targets the $30 million Malibu estate of Equatorial Guinea's playboy president-in-waiting -- and Michael Jackson's glove.

BY KEN SILVERSTEIN | OCTOBER 13, 2011

The Price of Failure

How much has the collapse of Somalia cost the world? $55 billion -- and here's where it went.

BY JOHN NORRIS, BRONWYN BRUTON | OCTOBER 5, 2011

Cocacabana

Brazil may be rising, but in Rio's favelas, drugs, crime, and killing are a way of life. A Hipstamatic tour -- deep inside the gritty, gang-ridden streets -- where few outsiders dare to tread.

BY JARED P. MOOSSY | SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

The Baghdad Syndrome

Eight not-so-simple steps to making sure that Libya doesn't repeat Iraq's mistakes.

BY LARRY KAPLOW | AUGUST 26, 2011

Gandhi's Revenge

Is India's middle class finally fed up with its dysfunctional government?

BY SADANAND DHUME | AUGUST 22, 2011

The Dictator's Survival Guide

Seven lessons the world's remaining autocrats can learn from Qaddafi's mistakes.

BY MICAH ZENKO | AUGUST 22, 2011

Guilty Until Proven Guilty

In the cage of justice, sometimes a courtroom's verdict is long foretold.

BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 3, 2011

The Trial of the Century

Look beyond the cage. The problems facing Hosni Mubarak’s trial lie elsewhere.

BY NATHAN J. BROWN | AUGUST 3, 2011

Dark Rumblings

Could sub-Saharan Africa have its own Arab Spring?

BY TY MCCORMICK | JULY 28, 2011

Fail, Britannia

How did the country that taught the world good governance become so corrupt?

BY CHANDRASHEKHAR KRISHNAN | JULY 28, 2011

The Arab Recession

They may be cheering for democracy, but for most countries affected by the Arab Spring the economic news will have them crying.

BY TY MCCORMICK | JULY 22, 2011

The Prince of Persia

Machiavelli’s got nothing on Iran’s Supreme Leader.

BY KARIM SADJADPOUR | JULY 21, 2011

In Defense of Hacks

Britain's press is sensationalistic, sloppy, and scandal-prone -- and America would be lucky to have one like it.

BY TOBY HARNDEN | JULY 21, 2011

Assassin Nation

After more than three decades of targeted killings, is there anyone left alive who can actually run Afghanistan?

BY EDWARD GIRARDET | JULY 18, 2011

Five Months of Waiting

What happens when a revolution stalls out?

BY SHARIF ABDEL KOUDDOUS | JULY 15, 2011

First, They Came for the Lawyers

China's newest campaign of repression.

BY JEROME A. COHEN | JULY 12, 2011

Who Killed Ahmed Wali Karzai?

The Taliban is taking credit for assassinating the Afghan president's powerful brother. But a personal feud seems more likely.

BY MATTHIEU AIKINS | JULY 12, 2011

For the Love of Money

From whiskey to nuclear secrets, North Korea plays a remarkably entrepreneurial role in international affairs for a Communist regime.

BY SIMON HENDERSON | JULY 7, 2011

The WikiLeaks You Missed

From blatant bribery in India to Hugo Chávez’s war on Domino’s pizza, here are the highlights from the last four months of the secret State Department cables.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JULY 1, 2011

Paperwork Tigers

The developing world can do fine without more regulation, thank you very much. In fact, it can do better.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JULY 1, 2011

The Least Free Places on Earth, 2011

20 places with nothing to celebrate this weekend.

TEXT BY FREEDOM HOUSE | JULY 1, 2011

Red Shirts and Rowdy Royals

The secret WikiLeaks cables that explain how Thailand went from paradise to political mayhem.

BY ANDREW MACGREGOR MARSHALL | JUNE 29, 2011

Legalizing Drugs Won't Stop Mexico's Brutal Cartels

Like all good multinational businesses, they've diversified.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 22, 2011

Green Shoots in the Killing Fields

Citizens of the Democratic Republic of the Congo believe there's hope for their war-torn country even if no one else does -- and their optimism is starting to get results.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JUNE 20, 2011

Everything You Think You Know About the Collapse of the Soviet Union Is Wrong

*And why it matters today in a new age of revolution.

BY LEON ARON | JULY/AUGUST 2011

Dark Crystal

Why didn't anyone predict the Arab revolutions?

BY BLAKE HOUNSHELL | JULY/AUGUST 2011

Who Tried to Kill Ali Abdullah Saleh?

The hidden feud behind the revolution in Yemen.

BY SARAH PHILLIPS | JUNE 13, 2011