Corruption

Gimme Shelter

Why is Hosni Mubarak clinging to power? Maybe because the life of an exiled dictator isn't what it used to be.

BY SCOTT HORTON | FEBRUARY 2, 2011

The Arab World's Youth Army

Meet the chronically unemployed twenty-somethings fueling social and political upheaval across the Middle East.

BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | JANUARY 27, 2011

More Sudans, More Problems?

If and when Southern Sudan becomes independent, it may mean two troubled Sudans instead of just one.

BY MAGGIE FICK | JANUARY 25, 2011

The Ghosts of Duvalier

Baby Doc's return to Haiti is a potent reminder that his legacy of poverty and corruption lives on.

BY ELIZABETH ABBOTT | JANUARY 19, 2011

Justice for a Spy

It's time for Obama to grant Jonathan Pollard clemency for his crimes.

BY LAWRENCE KORB | JANUARY 12, 2011

Forget the Aftershocks

Plenty of factors are holding back Haiti's development, but last year's earthquake isn't one of them.

BY CHARLES KENNY | JANUARY 3, 2011

The Serpent King

How a notorious Malaysian wildlife smuggler was brought to justice -- and what it tells us about stopping the world's most profitable black market.

BY BRYAN CHRISTY | DECEMBER 28, 2010

A Cup of Plenty?

Emerging countries deserve the World Cup, but FIFA needs to get its act together to make sure that the global showcase doesn't do more harm than good.

BY PARAG KHANNA, KARIM MAKDISI | DECEMBER 22, 2010

Publish or Perish

Private contractors cost taxpayers worldwide untold billions in corruption, inefficiency, and mismanagement. But the solution isn't getting rid of them -- it's showing the rest of us their paperwork.

BY CHARLES KENNY | DECEMBER 20, 2010

Greed Is Global

A world of corruption revealed by WikiLeaks.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON, JOSHUA E. KEATING | DECEMBER 18, 2010

WikiFailed States

What the cables reveal about the world’s toughest places.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | DECEMBER 14, 2010

The Fake Taliban and Other Great Diplo-Scams

The United States was just bamboozled by a con artist purporting to be a high-ranking Taliban official. Here are five other unbelievable and embarrassing historical diplomatic frauds.

BY DAVID KENNER | NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The Privateers of Yemen

Starved for revenue and riddled with corruption, the Yemeni navy and coast guard have adopted a novel fundraising strategy: guns for hire.

BY ELLEN KNICKMEYER | NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Havana's Man in Havana

Rogue CIA operative Philip Agee's personal papers were just released by New York University. But take it from this CIA veteran -- Agee wasn't an honest critic, but a traitor bought and paid for by America's enemies.

BY ROBERT BAER | NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Values Voters

How Malaysia's right-wing Islamist party became the country's best hope for political reform.

BY DUSTIN ROASA | OCTOBER 12, 2010

Chained in the Colombian Jungle

The FARC's most famous hostage, Ingrid Betancourt, tells FP what six-and-a-half years of captivity in the jungle felt like.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Warlord TV

When Afghanistan's powerbrokers own the networks, they control what's on the air. The result: documentaries of Dostum chasing Taliban fighters across northern Afghanistan on horseback.

BY KATHERINE BROWN, TOM GLAISYER | SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Corrupt Democracy

Should the Barack Obama administration keep giving aid to the corrupt government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai? Kenyan whistle-blower John Githongo tells FP why pluralism and freedom will never thrive when everyone from officials to cab drivers are skimming off the top.

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The Save-the-World Clock

Global leaders promised a decade ago to end poverty by 2015. With just five years left, the U.N. General Assembly -- including an estimated 140 heads of state -- will meet this week to assess progress. How much good has been done? Here's a hint: not enough.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The Bordello State

Italy's descent under Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

BY JAMES WALSTON | SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Cops, Robbers … and the Muslim Brotherhood?

Why the Egyptian government's propaganda version of CSI revealed more about its own paranoia than about its enemies.

BY ABDULLAH AL-ARIAN | SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The Worst Job in Japan

Less than three months into his term, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan is already fighting to hold onto his office. But what's crazier is that anyone wants to take it from him.

BY TOBIAS HARRIS | AUGUST 31, 2010

India's Hidden War

Inside the resource conflict you haven't heard about.

SEPT. / OCT. 2010

Bed, Bath & Bribes

IKEA's struggle to do business in Putin's Russia.

BY ALEXANDER OSIPOVICH | 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

This Week at War: Is Mexico's Drug War Doomed?

Learning to live with drug cartels -- and killer robots.

BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 13, 2010

How WikiLeaks Could Use Its Power for Good

Targeted leaks work better than document dumps.

BY CHARLI CARPENTER | AUGUST 12, 2010

Zardari's Katrina

Why is Pakistan’s president junketing while his people drown?

BY FATIMA BHUTTO | AUGUST 4, 2010

The Sand Smugglers

Singapore's business-friendly climate has seen the country grow by leaps and bounds -- literally. But it's all based on a murky, billion-dollar illegal trade in sand.   

BY CHRIS MILTON | AUGUST 4, 2010

The Fastest to Die

A study reveals how deeply the wounds of conflict have cut the Central African Republic -- and not where you would expect.

BY PATRICK VINCK, PHUONG PHAM | AUGUST 3, 2010