Disasters
Let's Stop Miscasting Africans
Africans are way past the victim thing -- but Westerners don't seem to be there yet. A tale of two films.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 13, 2012
Japan's Nuclear Cabal
Japan's public is squarely against going back to nuclear power. So why is the government pushing so hard to get the country's nuclear plants back online?
BY NOBUO FUKUDA | MARCH 9, 2012
Food Aid: Stuff People Need
Ambassador Ertharin Cousin and Nancy Lindborg say U.S. food aid has come a long way since serving as a means of donating surplus commodities.
JAN/FEB 2012
The Ten Biggest American Intelligence Failures
BY URI FRIEDMAN | JANUARY 3, 2012
A Friend in Need
Can disaster aid actually win hearts and minds?
BY CHARLES KENNY | OCTOBER 31, 2011
Haiti Doesn't Need Your Yoga Mat
A visual history of the West's misguided attempts to send its hand-me-downs to the developing world.
OCTOBER 11, 2011
The Numbers Game
U.N. spokesperson Elisabeth Byrs writes that David Rieff's accusations of casualty count inflation are unfair.
NOVEMBER 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
Are You So Mad at Pakistan You Can't Feel Sorry for Them?
Tragic photos of a nation underwater.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY SAM PHELPS | OCTOBER 4, 2011
Atomic Dogs
Why can't the world's nuclear energy watchdog do anything about Fukushima or Iran's weapons program? I went to find out.
BY KONSTANTIN KAKAES | SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
Doom and Gloom
Interpreting the American public mood on the 9/11 decade.
BY SHIBLEY TELHAMI | SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Is There a Map to the Future?
The former head of the U.S. National Intelligence Council explains why governments try -- and fail -- to see over the horizon.
BY ROBERT HUTCHINGS | AUGUST 31, 2011
The Black Hole of 9/11
As we assess the legacy of the 10th anniversary of America's seminal terrorist attack, it's worth looking at 10 events from the past decade that have actually been more important.
BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | AUGUST 29, 2011
Cloudy with a Chance of Insurgency
Does extreme weather cause war? Don't count on it.
BY CHARLES KENNY | AUGUST 29, 2011
Come Together
Leaders struggling to fix a world spiraling out of control are turning to international institutions. Are they up to the task?
BY DAVID BOSCO | AUGUST 18, 2011
Two Plus Two Equals Five
What numbers can we trust? A second look at the death toll from some of the world's worst disasters.
BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 17, 2011
Vicious Cycle
After 20 years of trying to stop famine and eliminate piracy and terrorism in Somalia, the world's No. 1 failed state is still a mess.
AUGUST 16, 2011
Millions May Die ... Or Not.
How disaster hype became a big global business.
BY DAVID RIEFF | SEPT/OCT 2011
The Black Hawk Down Effect
We all know what went wrong the last time the international community tried to end a crisis in Somalia. But we've forgotten what went right.
BY JOHN L. HIRSCH | AUGUST 12, 2011
The Post-Fukushima Arms Race?
The ironic consequence of Japan's disaster might be a more dangerous global nuclear landscape.
BY HENRY SOKOLSKI | JULY 29, 2011
Interview: Rajiv Shah
The USAID administrator on the epic food crisis in the Horn of Africa, dealing with al Shabab, and why Somalia's famine is going to get worse before it gets better.
INTERVIEW BY ROBERT ZELIGER | JULY 28, 2011
The Forgetting Stone
"No matter how many years may pass, do not forget this warning": A poet’s look at Japan’s centuries of rebuilding over fault-lines, from FP’s latest ebook.
BY MARIKO NAGAI | JULY 27, 2011
Norway's 9/11?
Kristian Berg Harpviken, director of Norway's Peace Research Institute Oslo, explains why the Norwegian capital might have been on a terrorist's shortlist of potential targets.
INTERVIEW BY CHARLES HOMANS | JULY 22, 2011
Hot Air Zone
Naoto Kan’s statement taking on Japan’s nuclear industry isn’t likely to accomplish anything.
BY ROBERT DUJARRIC | JULY 14, 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
The Most Notable Revolutionaries of 2011
Right, wrong, or otherwise -- these freedom fighters haven't let the powers-that-be block them, and we're (mostly) better off for it.
BY DAVID J. ROTHKOPF | JULY 1, 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
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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