Elections
Pandering in Paris
With President Nicolas Sarkozy closing the gap in the run up to elections, challenger Francois Hollande is falling back on the tired, old Socialist battle cry.
BY JAMES TRAUB | MARCH 16, 2012
The Temperature's Dropping for Russia's Opposition
Vladimir Putin is back in the saddle, and the weather is getting chilly again for Russia's protest movement.
BY ANNA NEMTSOVA | MARCH 15, 2012
The Last Waltz
After a week of soul-searching and post-mortems of "the revolution," the final anti-Putin rally felt like the closing chord of a long and ebullient improvisation.
BY JULIA IOFFE | MARCH 10, 2012
The Personality Problem
In an age of globalization and revolutionary upheaval, grand impersonal forces might appear to be winning out. But don't discount the human factor.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | MARCH 7, 2012
Hoping Against All Hope
Tibetans are setting themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule. So is there anything the leader of the Tibetan government-in-exile can do about it?
BY SUDIP MAZUMDAR | MARCH 5, 2012
Moscow's Merry Pranksters
Big public demonstrations may be a new development in Russia, but protests in the streets have been around for a while. Just ask the artists.
BY ALEXIS ZIMBERG | MARCH 3, 2012
Who Will Win Russia’s One-Man Election?
Once again, it all comes down to Putin versus himself.
BY JULIA IOFFE | MARCH 2, 2012
The World in Photos This Week
A Spanish festival, voting in Iran, and more violence in Syria.
MARCH 2, 2012
From Strength to Strength
Karl Rove and Ed Gillespie have it all wrong. Americans believe in President Barack Obama’s foreign policy competence -- and picking a fight just makes the GOP candidates look lame.
BY JEREMY ROSNER, STANLEY GREENBERG | FEBRUARY 29, 2012
The Fix Is In
Why the coming election in Iran will be the fakest one yet.
BY JAMSHEED CHOKSY | FEBRUARY 27, 2012
Rotting from the Inside Out
The debate over American decline is missing the point. All this talk about projecting U.S. power abroad means nothing if we can't fix our severe problems at home.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | FEBRUARY 21, 2012
You Can Run But You Can't Hide
Activists are preparing to charge Yemen's ex-strongman Ali Abdullah Saleh with crimes against humanity -- despite a deal that guarantees him immunity at home.
BY INNA LAZAREVA | FEBRUARY 20, 2012
Waiting for Spring
If the Middle East is your yardstick, the countries of Central Asia ought to be on the verge of revolution. But don't hold your breath.
BY SCOTT RADNITZ | FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Nationality: Democrat
Democracy and identity politics aren't mutually exclusive. But don't try telling that to the Chinese Communist Party.
BY ELLEN BORK | FEBRUARY 17, 2012
Votes Versus Rights
The debate that's shaping the outcome of the Arab Spring.
BY CHARLES KURZMAN | FEBRUARY 10, 2012
Upping the Ante
With 100,000 protesters -- young, old, and everything in between -- out in the freezing streets of Moscow, the heat is being turned up on Vladimir Putin's drive for the presidency.
BY JULIA IOFFE | FEBRUARY 5, 2012
Premature Evacuation?
Why cutting and running in Afghanistan is good politics for Obama.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Ultra Violence
How Egypt’s soccer mobs are threatening the revolution.
BY JAMES M. DORSEY | FEBRUARY 1, 2012
The Georgian Paradox
As Georgia's recent experience demonstrates, fighting corruption and building democracy are two different things.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 31, 2012
The Pop Star and the President
Will West Africa's biggest music star and Senegal's octogenarian president-for-life learn to sing along -- or is the country on the edge of discord?
BY TIM JUDAH | JANUARY 31, 2012
The Lesson of Bani Walid
In post-Gaddafi Libya, the dream of a stable central government is fading. Militias are filling the gap.
BY CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN | JANUARY 28, 2012
The Battle for Bihar
Sleaze still plagues India. But one place is fighting back.
BY SUDIP MAZUMDAR | JANUARY 25, 2012
Making Up Is Hard to Do
As the Arab Spring countries are about to learn, reconciliation is hard, grinding work.
BY CHARLES VILLA-VICENCIO | JANUARY 17, 2012
From Paris with Love
Dear Mitt: What's this European socialist nightmare you're so afraid of? Trust me, la belle vie ain't that bad.
BY ERIC PAPE | JANUARY 13, 2012
¿El Presidente?
Mitt Romney could be the first Latino president. So why is he blowing it?
BY LARRY KAPLOW | JANUARY 11, 2012
The Beards of January
Even Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood is nervous about the rise of the Salafis.
JANUARY 4, 2012
It's Not Just Obama
Twenty elections that could change the world in 2012.
BY LOIS PARSHLEY, URI FRIEDMAN | DECEMBER 30, 2011
Occupy Everywhere
In this year of protests, is it really fair to compare the grievances of the Occupy movement to the courage of the Arab Spring?
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 30, 2011
The (B)end of History
Francis Fukuyama was wrong, and 2011 proves it.
BY JOHN ARQUILLA | DECEMBER 27, 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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