Think Again: Drugs

Prohibition has failed -- again. Instead of treating the demand for illegal drugs as a market, and addicts as patients, policymakers the world over have boosted the profits of drug lords and fostered narcostates that would frighten Al Capone. Finally, a smarter drug control regime that values reality over rhetoric is rising to replace the "war" on drugs.

BY ETHAN NADELMANN | AUGUST 15, 2007

Crime and Punishment

BY KEN MORITSUGU | APRIL 18, 2007

The Merchant of Death

Russian entrepreneur Viktor Bout has made millions as the world's most efficient postman, able to deliver any kind of cargo -- especially illicit weapons -- anywhere in the world. How was he able to build his intricate underground network? By exploiting cracks in the anarchy of globalization.

BY DOUGLAS FARAH, STEPHEN BRAUN | NOVEMBER 1, 2006

Arms Around the World

What would the global flow of weapons look like without Viktor Bout? Dozens of traffickers wait in the wings.

BY DOUGLAS FARAH | OCTOBER 10, 2006

It's the Illicit Economy, Stupid

How Big Business taught criminals to go global.

BY MOISÉS NAÍM | NOVEMBER 9, 2005

Think Again: Human Trafficking

Judging by news headlines, human trafficking is a recent phenomenon. In fact, the coerced movement of people across borders is as old as the laws of supply and demand. What is new is the volume of the traffic -- and the realization that we have done little to stem the tide. We must look beyond our raw emotions if we are ever to stop those who trade in human lives.

BY DAVID A. FEINGOLD | AUGUST 30, 2005

Hacking the Odds

BY NIR KSHETRI | MAY 5, 2005

Caught in the Net: Australian Teens

MARCH 1, 2005

Gang World

Street gangs are proliferating around the world. The United States has unwittingly spurred this phenomenon by deporting tens of thousands of immigrants with criminal records each year. But that only partly explains how gangs went global. Credit also goes to the Internet, where gangs are staking out turf and spreading their culture online. Gang members may have never heard of globalization, but it is making them stronger.

BY ANDREW V. PAPACHRISTOS | MARCH 1, 2005

Addicted to Failure

It's time for Latin America to start breaking with Washington over the war on drugs.

BY ETHAN NADELMANN | JULY 1, 2003

Web Trafficking

MARCH 1, 2002

South Africa's Criminal Culture

BY ERIC PELSER | SEPTEMBER 1, 2001

Revolutionaries or Crooks?

BY BENJAMIN RYDER HOWE | JANUARY 1, 2001