Development
Can You Fight Poverty With a Five-Star Hotel?
The story of how the World Bank's investment arm hands out billions in loans to wealthy tycoons and giant multinationals in some of the world's poorest places.
BY CHERYL STRAUSS EINHORN | JANUARY 2, 2013
The Baby Menace
Are we too worried about falling fertility rates?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 2, 2013
A New Law of Petropolitics
Sorry, Tom Friedman, higher oil prices don't always mean lower levels of democracy.
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 2, 2013
The Law Still Stands
Why I stand by my arguments about oil and dictatorship.
BY THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN | JANUARY 2, 2013
Is It Over Yet?
Haunting photos of a year in the life of the war America is still fighting.
DECEMBER 27, 2012
Beyond GDP
How our fixation with growth blinds us to broader measures of a society's health -- or lack thereof.
BY JOHN NORRIS | DECEMBER 27, 2012
The Midlife Crisis of Bangladesh
Bangladeshis want a reckoning with their bloody past. But they can do it without partisanship?
BY JOSEPH ALLCHIN | DECEMBER 21, 2012
What Africa Did Right in 2012
Africans are getting better at finding their own solutions to African problems.
BY JON TEMIN | DECEMBER 20, 2012
Radioactive Decay
We can't keep relying on a Vietnam-era treaty to stop nuclear proliferation.
BY YOUSAF BUTT | DECEMBER 19, 2012
Steven Pinker Sees Peace, I See Dead People
The author responds to his critics.
BY JOHN ARQUILLA | DECEMBER 12, 2012
The Star Student
Poland is the classic market economy. But it knows that its future depends on staying close to the European Union.
BY JAKUB WIŚNIEWSKI | DECEMBER 12, 2012
Decline Is a Choice
The West has nothing to fear but fear itself.
BY HUBERT VÉDRINE | DECEMBER 10, 2012
The Anti-Godfather
How a mayor set out to save a Sicilian city from neglect and Mafia influence.
BY LAURA BACON, RUSHDA MAJEED | DECEMBER 10, 2012
Hey, Foreign Policy, the World Really Is Getting Safer
Responses to John Arquilla's "The Big Kill."
DECEMBER 7, 2012
Barbarians at the Gate
Are Russia and China trying to take over the Internet? Probably. But so far they aren't having much luck.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | DECEMBER 5, 2012
Egypt's Economy: The Downside to Growth
Mubarak may be gone, but his economic policies still haunt Egyptians.
BY MAGDA KANDIL | DECEMBER 5, 2012
The Migrant Money Machine
The developed world could make a big difference to the global economy simply by helping migrants to do what comes naturally: send money home.
BY PETER PASSELL | DECEMBER 4, 2012
How to Cope with Windfall Wealth
Mongolia has been doing a remarkable job of managing a natural-resource bonanza. But dangers still lie ahead.
BY PETER MURRELL, CHULUUNBAT NARANTUYA | NOVEMBER 30, 2012
In Rebel Country
How did 1,000 skinny militiamen in rubber boots conquer a city of 1 million people in a matter of hours?
BY JAMES VERINI | NOVEMBER 27, 2012
The FP Survey: The Wisdom of the Smart Crowd
FP's Global Thinkers weigh in on the year gone by and what's on the horizon for 2013.
DECEMBER 2012
The Lady and the General
Meet the political odd couple driving democratic reform in Burma.
BY KURT M. CAMPBELL | DECEMBER 2012
Why Birth Control Is Still a Big Idea
Contraceptives empower women -- and that's good news for the global health and development agenda.
BY MELINDA GATES | DECEMBER 2012
The Best Small Ideas of 2012
In our search for dramatic solutions to poverty, we sometimes miss the small innovations that could make a big difference in reducing inequality.
BY TINA ROSENBERG | DECEMBER 2012
Rise of the MOOCs
The Internet is revolutionizing universities, giving pretty much anyone, anywhere access to a world-class education. Here are seven massive online open course providers you need to know about.
BY TY MCCORMICK, ELIAS GROLL | NOVEMBER 26, 2012
The New Breakout Nations
Forget the BRICs. Meet seven unheralded countries to watch.
BY RUCHIR SHARMA | DECEMBER 2012
Printing Innovation
Seven 3D-printable objects that will change the world.
BY J. DANA STUSTER | NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Turkey's Weakest Export
Turkey says it wants to be a model for democracy in the Middle East. But so far its actions lag behind its achievements.
BY GAMZE COŞKUN | NOVEMBER 21, 2012
The Key to Bringing Democracy to China
It's naked self-interest, stupid.
BY YASHENG HUANG | NOVEMBER 19, 2012
How much would a no-fly zone over Syria cost?
BY KEVIN BARON
Cuba's greatest export isn't cigars -- it's doctors
BY ELIAS GROLL
No, the Spanish can't be more German -- and other myths of the euro crisis
BY MICHAEL PETTIS
Dennis Rodman calls on Kim Jong Un to do him 'a solid' and release American detainee
BY URI FRIEDMAN
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Is there a relationship between more women in government and happier mothers?
BY ELIZABETH F. RALPH
Odierno: Sequestration leaves military unprepared for Syria
BY KEVIN BARON
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