Elections
The World According to Ron Paul
Republicans are freaked out about what a libertarian isolationist in the White House would do to American power -- but not all Democrats are.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 23, 2011
Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
What should America do about the Arab Spring? Not much.
BY F. GREGORY GAUSE III | DECEMBER 21, 2011
The Botched Ballot
Why even failed elections are good for democracy.
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 16, 2011
The Condomnation of Vladimir Putin
Russia’s embattled ruler meets his public.
BY JULIA IOFFE | DECEMBER 16, 2011
A Crisis in the Congo
Why is the West so willing to look the other way when it comes to the Democratic Republic of the Congo's clearly flawed election results?
BY MVEMBA PHEZO DIZOLELE | DECEMBER 14, 2011
A Tale of Two Candidates
The
Gingrich–Huntsman debate illustrated, sadly, what GOP voters are looking for
in a presidential candidate.
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | DECEMBER 13, 2011
Looking Back at the Arab Spring
From Tunisia to Tahrir Square, the pictures that defined a movement.
DECEMBER 12, 2011
The Decembrists
No one's quite sure what's going on in the streets of Moscow -- or what to call it -- but it's growing and powerful ... and could all end badly.
BY JULIA IOFFE | DECEMBER 9, 2011
Now Hear This, Moscow
It’s time for President Obama to talk tough about Russia’s rigged parliamentary elections.
BY DAVID J. KRAMER | DECEMBER 8, 2011
The Anti-Putin Brigade
Portraits of Russia's would-be revolutionaries -- and their intimate thoughts on Vladimir Putin and the country's dark political future.
PHOTOS BY KIRILL NIKITENKO | DECEMBER 5, 2011
When Democrats Became Doves
With the GOP candidates eager to call Obama weak-willed on foreign policy, it's worth looking at how Democrats got stuck with this tag.
BY MICHAEL COHEN | DECEMBER 2, 2011
Ready for Their Close-Up
The votes are in, and Islamist parties are ascendant throughout the Arab world. But can they rule?
BY JAMES TRAUB | DECEMBER 2, 2011
Realpolitik and the Myanmar Spring
Wondering why Hillary Clinton is in Myanmar right now? Hint: it's all about China.
BY BERTIL LINTNER | NOVEMBER 30, 2011
Ballot Gone Bad
Liberia's peaceful election has descended into chaos, conspiracy, and violence.
BY F. CHARLES YOUNG | NOVEMBER 8, 2011
20 Things the G-20 Could Have Done -- But Didn't
As the Cannes caucus begins, here's what would have saved the world economy -- and Barack Obama's job.
BY DAVID ROTHKOPF | NOVEMBER 2, 2011
Divine Election
As Tunisians prepare for the Arab Spring's first free election, they are discovering that democracy, too, can be messy.
BY DON DUNCAN | OCTOBER 21, 2011
Panda Mugging
Can the 2012 candidates China-bash their way to victory?
BY MICHAEL A. COHEN | OCTOBER 14, 2011
Fear and Loathing in Christian Cairo
After a day of brutal violence, my Egyptian Christian family -- and the Coptic community -- is afraid for the future.
BY MONIQUE EL-FAIZY | OCTOBER 11, 2011
The World According to the GOP
What do the 2012 Republican candidates have to say about foreign policy?
COMPILED BY JOSHUA E. KEATING | NOVEMBER 2011
Tilting at Windmills
Mitt Romney's new, muscular foreign policy isn't new at all. And his GOP standard-issue scaremongering misses the fact that Democrats are no longer foreign-policy weaklings.
BY MICHAEL COHEN | OCTOBER 7, 2011
That Seventies Show
France's newly dominant Socialists have absorbed the lessons of American politics -- but are they planning to take the republic back to the future?
BY JAMES TRAUB | SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
Disaster Politics
The real story behind Putin's return to the throne: Russia is headed for economic catastrophe, and nothing he does can stop it.
BY JULIA IOFFE | SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
The Return of the King
It's official: Vladimir Putin is Russia's once and future president. So how come we're surprised all over again?
BY JULIA IOFFE | SEPTEMBER 24, 2011
The Kremlin's Spin Machine … and Me
My adventures on Russia's first televised political debate in a decade.
BY JULIA IOFFE | SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
She's Number 3!
After a shady city council election, St. Petersburg's deeply unpopular governor appears poised to become the third-most powerful politician in Russia. How on earth did this happen?
BY JULIA IOFFE | AUGUST 24, 2011
Imagining Libya, a Decade from Now
Ten years after the guns have finally been laid down, will Libya still be a mess?
BY DANIEL SERWER | AUGUST 22, 2011
A Revolution, with Qualifications
What the naysayers got right about the Arab Spring.
BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 19, 2011
Life After Debt
In this month's market upheavals in the United States and Europe, we are witnessing the end of a seven-decade economic experiment. But does anyone have any clue what comes next?
BY JAMES MACDONALD | AUGUST 18, 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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