Drugs & Crime
This Week at War: Outsourcing the Drug War
Can U.S. private contractors turn the tide in Mexico's violent drug war?
BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 12, 2011
The Kids Aren't Alright
What's really behind Britain's wave of youth violence?
BY PORTIA WALKER | AUGUST 10, 2011
Gold Rush
With markets in a panic and investors fleeing to gold, Colombia's armed groups are making out like bandits.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | AUGUST 9, 2011
Guilty Until Proven Guilty
In the cage of justice, sometimes a courtroom's verdict is long foretold.
BY PHILIP WALKER | AUGUST 3, 2011
Fail, Britannia
How did the country that taught the world good governance become so corrupt?
BY CHANDRASHEKHAR KRISHNAN | JULY 28, 2011
Rumble in the Jungle
In Colombia, FARC operations are on the rise as the guerrilla movement changes strategy and returns to its insurgent roots.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JULY 26, 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
In Defense of Hacks
Britain's press is sensationalistic, sloppy, and scandal-prone -- and America would be lucky to have one like it.
BY TOBY HARNDEN | JULY 21, 2011
Assassin Nation
After more than three decades of targeted killings, is there anyone left alive who can actually run Afghanistan?
BY EDWARD GIRARDET | JULY 18, 2011
Who Killed Ahmed Wali Karzai?
The Taliban is taking credit for assassinating the Afghan president's powerful brother. But a personal feud seems more likely.
BY MATTHIEU AIKINS | JULY 12, 2011
Don't Be Evil
What Google doesn't get about violent extremism -- and how it can do better.
BY WILLIAM MCCANTS | JUNE 30, 2011
Legalizing Drugs Won't Stop Mexico's Brutal Cartels
Like all good multinational businesses, they've diversified.
BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | JUNE 22, 2011
The Rise of the Red Market
How the best intentions of the medical community accidentally created an international organ-trafficking underground.
BY SCOTT CARNEY | MAY 30, 2011
Interview: Álvaro Uribe
Colombia's former president tells FP how his country came back from the brink, why he's staying in politics, and why it's dangerous (but worth it) to be on Twitter.
INTERVIEW BY ELIZABETH DICKINSON | MAY 17, 2011
Blood and Gold
Welcome to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the warzone that helps make your iPhone.
MAY 12, 2011
Show Me Everything But the Money
Why we should spend less time worrying about what people in developing countries think about government corruption, and more time looking at everything else.
BY CHARLES KENNY | MAY 2, 2011
Comeback City
From narco-ville to architectural miracle, a look at the evolution of Colombia's notorious Medellín.
APRIL 27, 2011
The Prisoners' Dilemma
Does WikiLeaks' newest document dump tell us anything we don't know about Guantánamo, or is it just another reminder that the United States' least worst place is now its most intractable legal problem? FP asked four experts on military law and interrogation to weigh in on the Gitmo papers.
APRIL 25, 2011
Think Again: The Afghan Drug Trade
Why cracking down on Afghanistan's opium business won't help stop the Taliban -- or the United States' own drug problems.
BY JONATHAN P. CAULKINS, JONATHAN D. KULICK, AND MARK A.R. KLEIMAN | APRIL 1, 2011
WikiLosers
Julian Assange said WikiLeaks would change the world. At the very least, it changed these people's lives forever.
BY CHARLES HOMANS | MARCH 25, 2011
Harvard for Tyrants
How Muammar al-Qaddafi taught a generation of bad guys.
BY DOUGLAS FARAH | MARCH 4, 2011
Islamists on Trial
On a monthlong trip through Russia's bloody southern republics, our correspondent visits a nearly deserted courtroom looking for hints as to why the violence here has taken on a new level of viciousness.
BY TOM PARFITT | FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Solitary Man
An FP slide show of Hamid Karzai's tumultuous nine years as president of Afghanistan.
FEBRUARY 22, 2011
The LWOT: House, on second try, passes Patriot Act extension; American linked to 7/7 bomber released from U.S. prison
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FEBRUARY 15, 2011
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
Next Year's Wars
The 16 brewing conflicts to watch for in 2011.
CAPTIONS BY INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP | DECEMBER 28, 2010
Can Egypt's Islamist finance minister cut a deal with the IMF?
BY DAVID KENNER
3 questions Obama's new AfPak envoy must answer
BY GAYLE TZEMACH LEMMON
Odierno: Syrian rebels will prevail, but sequester makes U.S. intervention risky
BY KEVIN BARON
Time to bring the nukes back to South Korea
BY BENNETT RAMBERG
Meet Cody Wilson, the anarchist behind the world's first 3-D printed gun
BY ELIAS GROLL
Does this woman look like she'd be a good president of Bulgaria?
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
U.N. investigator on Syria: Out over her skis yet again?
BY JOHN HUDSON
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