Disasters

How Syria Ruined the Arab Spring

Hopes for peaceful change have been replaced by sectarian animosity and unending bloodshed.

BY MARC LYNCH | MAY 3, 2013

It's Time to Act in Syria

American values and interests are at stake in stopping the country's slow-motion destruction.

BY DENNIS ROSS | APRIL 18, 2013

Peas in a Rotting Pod

How Kim Jong Un is like Bashar al-Assad, and why being in way over his head could lead to war.

BY JACK GOLDSTONE | APRIL 11, 2013

How to Detect a Nuclear Test on Your iPhone

The rapidly growing opportunity to crowd-source national security.

BY CHRISTOPHER STUBBS, SIDNEY DRELL | APRIL 9, 2013

Haiti's Inconvenient Truth

Was a U.N. diplomat pushed out of his position for airing Port-au-Prince's dirty laundry in public?

BY JONATHAN M. KATZ | APRIL 3, 2013

Syria Is Already More Violent Than Iraq

And its destruction will define the Middle East for years to come.

BY DAVID KENNER | MARCH 20, 2013

Battle-Tested

Insiders debate America's misfires in Iraq and Afghanistan.

MARCH 4, 2013

Terror Management

Could a shared fear of climate change unite enemies?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | MARCH 4, 2013

The Things They Carried: The Congolese Rebel

Maj. John Imani Nzenze, an M23 rebel commander, reveals what's in his camouflage backpack. 

INTERVIEW AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY ANJAN SUNDARAM | MARCH 4, 2013

What Happened in Luvungi?

On rape and truth in Congo.

BY LAURA HEATON | MARCH 4, 2013

Apocalypse Soon

The end is nigh! And I'm not ready.

BY ROSA BROOKS | FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Syria's Battle Royale

The struggle for Damascus looks poised to transform this bloody conflict.

BY EMILE HOKAYEM | FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Doomsday Preppers

At a new center in Cambridge, a philosopher, an astronomer, and a software pioneer are looking for ways to save humanity from itself.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Over the Horizon

Five unlikely but extremely destabilizing global crises that Obama must prepare for now.

BY MARTIN INDYK | JANUARY 18, 2013

Subsidizing Starvation

How American tax dollars are keeping Arkansas rice growers fat on the farm and starving millions of Haitians.

BY MAURA R. O’CONNOR | JANUARY 11, 2013

No Surrender

The Syrian president’s speech at the Damascus Opera House shows that he still thinks he can win this war.

BY EMILE HOKAYEM | JANUARY 7, 2013

Eve of Disaster

Why 2013 eerily looks like the world of 1913, on the cusp of the Great War.

BY CHARLES EMMERSON | JANUARY 4, 2013

Rebel Country

Waiting out the coup in Mali.

BY PETER CHILSON | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Baby Menace

Are we too worried about falling fertility rates?

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 2, 2013

The Disappeared

Even the Soviet Union eventually acknowledged Stalin's Great Famine. Why does China still hide evidence of its own mass starvation under Mao?

BY FRANK DIKÖTTER | JANUARY 2, 2013

Let Them Eat Grass

What do Weibots think about China's Great Famine?

BY MURONG XUECUN | JANUARY 2, 2013

10 Conflicts to Watch in 2013

From Turkey to Congo, next year's wars threaten global stability.

BY LOUISE ARBOUR | DECEMBER 27, 2012

The Land of Topless Minarets and Headless Little Girls

A requiem for Syria.

BY AMAL HANANO | DECEMBER 11, 2012

Waiting for the Rain

In the impenetrable Dogon highlands of Mali, the storm of war is coming.

BY PETER CHILSON | DECEMBER 4, 2012

4 Digital Threats to Worry About

From hacktivism to cyberwarfare, the dangers that define the digital age.

BY EUGENE KASPERSKY | DECEMBER 2012

Overdone Turkey

The hype about Ankara as a regional leader is way overblown.

BY STEVEN A. COOK | NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Still Think Middle East Peace Doesn't Matter?

Gaza's radiating instability proves once again that Palestine is at the center of the region's problems.

BY STEVEN A. COOK | NOVEMBER 19, 2012

A Pillar of Problems

Eight questions about the Israel-Gaza conflict we still don't have a good handle on.

BY JONATHAN SCHANZER | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Throwing Rice

Barack Obama was right to defend Susan Rice from the GOP attacks. She's got the chops to be secretary of state.

BY SEAN KAY | NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The Peace Process Isn't Dead

The brewing war in Gaza shows why the United States must make a renewed effort to bring Israelis and Palestinians together.

BY DANIEL KURTZER | NOVEMBER 15, 2012