Disasters

The Day the War Came Back to Moscow

Thoughts after Russia's subway attacks.

BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | MARCH 29, 2010

Interview: António Guterres

From Darfur to Afghanistan, the U.N.’s point man on refugees says, the world’s conflicts are getting “more worrisome and more difficult to solve.”

INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MARCH 23, 2010

Sudan Is Still Up to No Good

Sudanese leader Omar Hassan al-Bashir is playing a breathtakingly cynical double game: harboring a notorious Ugandan death cult while pledging to work for peace in Darfur.

BY JOHN NORRIS | MARCH 11, 2010

How Genocide Became a National Security Threat

And what Barack Obama should do about it.

BY MICHAEL ABRAMOWITZ, LAWRENCE WOOCHER | FEBRUARY 26, 2010

A Light at the End of the Tunnel in Congo

Yes, it may look like the worst hell on Earth. But there are signs that the decades-long resource war in Central Africa could be shifting for the better -- if only the West stops bankrolling it.

BY JOHN PRENDERGAST | FEBRUARY 26, 2010

Case Raises Questions About U.N.'s Role in Zimbabwe

A former U.N. official claims his warnings of a coming calamity were stifled by a U.N. bureaucracy intent on keeping good relations with Zimbabwe's dictator, Robert Mugabe.

BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Greek Disease

Inside the new sick man of Europe.

BY NICOLE ITANO | FEBRUARY 19, 2010

How Not to Help Haiti

Sending your old, useless stuff to a disaster zone is exactly that: useless -- and a disaster.

BY MATTHEW COLLIN | FEBRUARY 19, 2010

How to Fix Haiti’s Fixers

Aid groups in the earthquake-battered country are inefficient and unaccountable. Luckily, there’s a solution.

BY PAUL COLLIER | FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Only Haitians Can Save Haiti

The world has tried before to fix this troubled state -- and failed each time. Now will be no different, unless Haitians take the lead.

BY HOWARD W. FRENCH | FEBRUARY 11, 2010

“I Am So Happy He’s Not Dead”

Photojournalist Chris Hondros shares the scenes and stories of the two and a half weeks he spent walking the rubble of Port-au-Prince -- visiting morgues and newly dug mass graves, and meeting survivors in crowded makeshift hospitals.

BY CHRIS HONDROS | FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Lost in #Haiti

How Haiti's disaster showed Twitter's limits as a news medium.

BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | JANUARY 22, 2010

After the Fall

From the poorest neighborhoods to the presidential palace, Haiti's man-made landscape, now demolished, will never be the same.

JANUARY 19, 2010

The Ghosts of Port-au-Prince

Why is Haiti so haunted? 

BY DANIEL P. ERIKSON | JANUARY 14, 2010

Tick, Tock

The bombs awaiting Obama in 2010.

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2010

The Big Thinkers of Giving

How philanthrocapitalists are reshaping the world of charity.

BY MATTHEW BISHOP, MICHAEL GREEN | DECEMBER 2009

The Big Freak Out

The downfall of the brains behind the Freakonomics phenomenon.

BY CLAY RISEN | NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Let Them Eat Plumpy'Nut

Does the food aid that goes to humanitarian crisis sites hurt more than it nourishes? And is the answer a peanut-flavored paste?

BY JIM MOTAVALLI | OCTOBER 8, 2009

Shelter from the Storm

AUGUST 12, 2008

The Most Dangerous Deficit

Why the supply and demand for global public goods could kill you.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | JANUARY 4, 2006

Natural Dangers

The destruction of New Orleans reminded us all of the awesome power of nature. But many had warned about the possibility of bad days for the Big Easy. FP highlights some other cities that could make nature's hit list.

NOVEMBER 9, 2005

Observing Earth

MARCH 1, 2005

On Faulty Ground

MAY 1, 2004

Acts of God

MARCH 1, 2001